CV Help

Nitefly · 22 Jun 2011 at 17:41

Hello all,

I'm just about to send out a barrel load of CVs in attempt to get bar work or something similar for the summer. I have the following heading on my current CV:

Work Experience
Relevant Skills and Experience
Education
Other Experience and Personal Interests

Writing them out like that is a bit of an 'experience' overload, but it looks find on the actual thing

They are currently in that order - do you think that is best? It's just I feel education isn't really relevant for the work I'm going to be applying for, so I've opted for work experience first. Thoughts?

Chris1712 · 22 Jun 2011 at 17:43

Change work experience to employment history

. Work experience sounds like your doing GCSE's

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Nitefly · 22 Jun 2011 at 17:47

Chris1712 said:
Change work experience to employment history . Work experience sounds like your doing GCSE's .

Good shout

Xelene · 22 Jun 2011 at 17:48

Profile/Statement - Who you are/what you want (2-3 sentences at most, marketing hook)
Skills - If you have any, bullet points
Experience - Reverse chronological order - successes, responsibilities, work in bullet points to justify them.
Education - I only put a 1-2 line here these days.

Use implied first person tense throughout.

http://www.resumepower.com/resume-checklist.html

semi-pro waster · 22 Jun 2011 at 20:08

Nitefly said:
They are currently in that order - do you think that is best? It's just I feel education isn't really relevant for the work I'm going to be applying for, so I've opted for work experience first. Thoughts?

If you were going for a first law job then I'd probably put the education section first as it's the most relevant until you have a year or twos experience in a solicitors to name. However in this situation it makes sense to put your employment history first, if you've got any customer service experience then you may want to expand those sections in preference to other less relevant experience.

Xelene · 22 Jun 2011 at 20:28

semi-pro waster said:
If you were going for a first law job then I'd probably put the education section first as it's the most relevant until you have a year or twos experience in a solicitors to name. However in this situation it makes sense to put your employment history first, if you've got any customer service experience then you may want to expand those sections in preference to other less relevant experience.

In this case, i'd suspect bar work involves pints not perps.

Sin_Chase · 22 Jun 2011 at 20:30

Personal interests/hobbies are really of no concern to the person reading your CV.

semi-pro waster · 22 Jun 2011 at 22:08

sldsmkd said:
In this case, i'd suspect bar work involves pints not perps.

Good effort.

Sin_Chase said:
Personal interests/hobbies are really of no concern to the person reading your CV.

Maybe not but then again it may be something to discuss at interview, it can be surprising what a silly little connection based on a shared hobby/interest can do in terms of boosting your chances. If it does nothing then you're probably no worse off than you would be otherwise.

Nitefly · 22 Jun 2011 at 22:11

semi-pro waster said:
If you were going for a first law job then I'd probably put the education section first as it's the most relevant until you have a year or twos experience in a solicitors to name. However in this situation it makes sense to put your employment history first, if you've got any customer service experience then you may want to expand those sections in preference to other less relevant experience.

That's what I thought, thanks

Printed off about 20 copies and just going to mooch around in town tomorrow giving them out... oh dear

Thanks to all for their input