How to describe a paper round on a CV...?

SideWinder said:
Changed it, thanks.

Mm, hadn't crossed mine either...

I have:

1.5 years paperound,
3 weeks in the MoD
2.5 years at Tesco.

I'm 20 so not that bad. :)



Also noted but i want to avoid using 'boy' in the title. :)
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Hmm, I've done similar...

about 1 year doing a paper round (15-16)
2 weeks doing computer repairs as work experience
1 year working on the till in the shop I got my round (16-17)
3 years working at asda (17-present) will be 4 years when I finish my degree.

Now I'm 20 and about to take on a bar job at Uni hopefully for my final year.

Then its on to a science based job, hopefully in the line of forensics.
 
mp3kla: Very similiar...surely you'd be looking for something 'higher' than a bar job? I obviously haven't finished my CV but i am aiming for something in HR part time while i am still studying to get a bit of experience in a field i want to go into.

Or do you just like to drink that much? :D
 
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Well to be honest with you, I can't really think of anything else thats flexible enough to give me term time hours only. I've got a seasonal job with ASDA now so I can come and go as I please in the holidays.

I don't really have many ideas to be honest with you. A bar job just appeals because I'll be meeting other students, mates, in the biggest student nightclub in Bournemouth :)

Any ideas on an alternative job - I don't really think I'm that qualified to be doing anything else at the moment.
 
mp3kla said:
Well to be honest with you, I can't really think of anything else thats flexible enough to give me term time hours only. I've got a seasonal job with ASDA now so I can come and go as I please in the holidays.

I don't really have many ideas to be honest with you. A bar job just appeals because I'll be meeting other students, mates, in the biggest student nightclub in Bournemouth :)

Any ideas on an alternative job - I don't really think I'm that qualified to be doing anything else at the moment.
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I'm going to aim for the lowest of the lowest in an office with 'HR' in the title or something relating to that department. The pay won't be below £6 so i'm fine with that plus it gives me experience now rather than leaving Uni and THEN having to start at the bottom.

Guess it's a bit different for science type jobs but your CV isn't all that bad you know. I'm realising that more and more.
 
scraping the barrel does come to mind I wouldn't put it on. In fact i didn't put a paper round that I did on my CV.
 
I cannot believe that some of you put a paper round on your cv!! :eek: I hope you also mention occasional washing of your parent's car for a cheeky fiver every couple of weeks.
 
bigchez said:
I cannot believe that some of you put a paper round on your cv!! :eek: I hope you also mention occasional washing of your parent's car for a cheeky fiver every couple of weeks.
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Obviously if you're someone with a degree and 5 A levels you aren't going to put it on. But when you're 17 or whatever and you're looking for you're first real job around college or whatever, it does show that you have been willing to work from a young age.
 
shauncr91 said:
Obviously if you're someone with a degree and 5 A levels you aren't going to put it on. But when you're 17 or whatever and you're looking for you're first real job around college or whatever, it does show that you have been willing to work from a young age.
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I was in the situation you described, and I didn't even consider putting it on, because it's a pretty ridiculous thing to do.
 
I think I may have used it when applying for my job at Asda when I was 17, whilst I was at college.

I'd never use it again. I'm half tempted to not put down One Stop stores ltd either... ASDA for 4 years throughout college and uni should be enough.
 
MattU said:
Did you actually google that phrase I said? The first result was "How NOT To Write a CV"...
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I did and it wasn't my idea, it was my Dad's and he has seen a fair few CVs. :)

It'll only be there for a bit and when i get another job, i can knock it off again. I have very average A-Levels, very average GCSEs and i haven't completed my degree yet.

I shall add it on and i might remove it later. :)
 
15-16?! I felt i was too old to do the paper round at 14 lol :D started at 12 (although they didn't know i was only that age :o) started at the co-op right after I turned 16 while at college.

Thinking back actually they weren't bothered about seeing a CV when I started then. Don't know if I would have put it down if they did
 
I guess it cant do any harm, but i doubt it does any good either!

You could bring it up in an interview and explain how you were keen on working from an early age, but i dont think its necessary on the cv.
 
No harm done, but you may do better quoting some grades from the modules you have completed as apart of your uni course. Select things which people could be wowed by.
 
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