im from Eastbourne , SE , UK - Jobs here are v v pants
would be very helpful if you could send your C.V , finding it hard to fit it to 2 pages ..lol
i shall take a look at Reed also
...career... stuck :(
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im from Eastbourne , SE , UK - Jobs here are v v pants
would be very helpful if you could send your C.V , finding it hard to fit it to 2 pages ..lol
i shall take a look at Reed also
im from Eastbourne , SE , UK - Jobs here are v v pants
would be very helpful if you could send your C.V , finding it hard to fit it to 2 pages ..lol
i shall take a look at Reed also
Just emailed it, with CV mentioned in the subject so hope it's helpful for you.
Noticed you are same age as me, i still can't decide exactly what i wish to do either but i am just going by whatever the agency offers me at the moment as they are offering nice jobs with decent pay.That reed site covers all areas so i am sure you can apply for quite a lot of jobs there, even my small town i thought didn't have much jobs until i checked there.(i live on west london outskirts)
Give it a go, get a good friend to check your CV perhaps that's what i did and then see what agencies call you offering what jobs, got nothing to lose.
Ayekinda sucks really!! i really don't know what to do tbh , stuck at Sainsbury's (not really a place for a career at the store i work at) but tbh most of the people that work at Sainsbury's came from tesco ..lol
Well anything to get me in to IT , i was looking at support desk or 1st line tech , and no i haven't spoken to any companies at all , just been looking at allot of websites and local papers
a list of the last 3 years at college
• City & Guilds - Level 3 Advanced Diploma for IT Practitioners (ICT Systems Support)
o Plan for the delivery of ICT Support Services and assist in the acquisition of ICT Systems (Credit)
o Customer support provision (Distinction)
o Install, configure and integrate networked hardware and software (Distinction)
o Repair centre procedures (Distinction)
o Maintain equipment and systems (Distinction)
• City & Guilds – Level 2 Diploma for IT Practitioners (ICT Systems Support)
o Maintain equipment and systems (Distinction)
o Customer support provision (Pass)
o Install and configure equipment and operating systems (Pass)
o Networking (Distinction)
o Maintain equipment and systems - MC (Pass – no higher grade possible)
o Customer support provision – MC (Pass – no higher grade possible)
• City & Guilds – Level 2 Diploma for IT Users
o IT Principles (Distinction)
o Using the internet (Distinction)
o Integrated applications (Pass)
o IT Principles – MC (Pass – no higher grade possible)
o Web site design (Distinction)
• GNVQ – Information & Communication Technology (Intermediate)
o Information resources.
o Modelling numerical information.
o Handling information.
o Networks and communications.
o Hardware and software.
o Design project.
o Information resources.
Not had a single replay from any CV's that i sent out.
I honestly dont know why people just wait for people to reply. If you want it, Everyday get on the phones and make it happen.
Pressure them, make them see you.
Trust me i am trying
a tad hard to phone people while im at work most of the day 
only get Monday off workbeen trying since 6pm to cut my C.V down to 2 pages, if anyone else can have a go (but still make it decent) then all will help.
Sycho's template helped me a bit but i still have too much to fit on 2 pages and i don't know what to get rid of.
on msn (email above)
Sycho's template helped me a bit but i still have too much to fit on 2 pages and i don't know what to get rid of.
on msn (email above)
If no one has done it before tomorrow then I will take a butchers (I type up the CV's for all clients at my work... what a fun job 
- I do more than that though )
And yes the CV's I type do get people jobs
Add me on MSN to remind me (In Trust)
- I do more than that though )And yes the CV's I type do get people jobs
Add me on MSN to remind me (In Trust)
^A word of advice, if you've put all that in-depth college stuff pasted above in your CV, then strip it down. From what I can gather, you have 4 different qualifications so list those along with dates studied. An employer is not going to want to trawl through 30 lines showing all the units you did at college. In your covering letter, highlight any particular ones you think are relevant to the job you are applying for. It's the kind of thing you may get asked at interview, but not something you need to declare up front.
The natural instinct when you are young and have little experience is to focus on your education (especially if you are academically gifted). My CV used to be packed with it until recently - heck, this time last year it was 6(!) pages long, albeit rather spaced out. I've since crammed it down into 2.5 pages and am probably going to remove some older work experience from there and maybe drop the font size a notch to try and squeeze it onto 2 pages.
Now, the fear when shrinking your CV is that you feel like you are leaving out stuff which makes you look good - you got a distinction in units XYZ at college, or you were on the school debating team etc. My attitude used to be that in order to stand out from the crowd, I need to overload them with info about how good I am. I've since come to realise that the CV is essentially just about getting your foot in the door, it doesn't have to tell your life story. The covering letter gives you scope for development, and once you've got an interview then you can expand on what is there.
The natural instinct when you are young and have little experience is to focus on your education (especially if you are academically gifted). My CV used to be packed with it until recently - heck, this time last year it was 6(!) pages long, albeit rather spaced out. I've since crammed it down into 2.5 pages and am probably going to remove some older work experience from there and maybe drop the font size a notch to try and squeeze it onto 2 pages.
Now, the fear when shrinking your CV is that you feel like you are leaving out stuff which makes you look good - you got a distinction in units XYZ at college, or you were on the school debating team etc. My attitude used to be that in order to stand out from the crowd, I need to overload them with info about how good I am. I've since come to realise that the CV is essentially just about getting your foot in the door, it doesn't have to tell your life story. The covering letter gives you scope for development, and once you've got an interview then you can expand on what is there.
I'd say that it'd be worth going one further than tailoring your covering letter for the job you're applying for -- tailor your CV for the job you're applying for too. I don't see anything wrong with listing modules, but make sure you only list the ones relevant to the job you're applying for. So, if it's a networking job then list your networking modules. If it's customer service, list those (and if it's a job that touches upon several areas you've studied, list a combination).
Don't bother listing whether you got a pass, distinction, etc. unless you got a distinction in all of them. Nothing wrong with a bit of self-promotion.
Similarly for your work experience, list those aspects of the jobs you've done that are relevant to the job that you're applying for. They may seem completely unrelated (IT vs supermarket) but there are probably common elements. So if you're applying for (say) a helpdesk role, then you'd want to emphasise those parts of your previous employment that were customer-facing. If you'll be working as part of a team, emphasise those parts that required you to work well with others, etc. If you are applying for lots of different types of job it might be useful to have your 4-page CV with all the details, and strip out the stuff that's not relevant to the particular job you're applying for rather than trying to come up with a single 2-page CV that tries to cater for everything.
Finally, as bad as it sounds, your CV is how a prospective employer gets their first impression of you. So make sure it is tidily presented, neat, readable, etc. Choose a nice font -- personally I think serif fonts look good on a CV. If you're sending it by snail mail, print it on good quality paper.
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Better to learn i think. If your relying on serposid experts who dont kno wyou someone who does know how to write one will probably do better. Plus youll always be asking them if you dont learn and you may get screwed over in your interview if they ask you about it.
Anyone stupid enough to go into an interview without being fully au fait with everything on their CV doesn't deserve to get the job anyway.
i'm going to take more time tomorrow and go through it and cut things out which i don't need, tbh i might take out all my school gcse etc and just have all my college work , What about hobbies etc ? worth having that gumph in there ?
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Perhaps anyone taht doesn't write their own cv shouldn't have the job as it isn't their work. just like handing in corsework for an exam which isn't yours.
First of all I would suggest you move somewhere else as Eastbourne sucks for finding decent jobs, I used to live there so I know what I'm talking about. I did some really crap jobs when I was there and I hate the place with a passion.
The last bit of education I did was in art and design and yet years later I'm the manager of a big paintball site, so your qualifications to a certain extent are meaningless. Unless you are really good at something within IT you may struggle to earn decent money starting with low end IT jobs, everyone wants to get into IT and thinks they can earn their fortune but its not always the case. I love computers and the internets but I keep it for when I am not at work.
Unless Sainsburys are going to put you on their management training program I suggest its time you try something different. Its too easy to stay doing a job you know and time you did something else completely different. Sort out your CV and go and visit loads of agencies, go to Brighton and other places if you can't move away from Eastbourne. Try some different jobs that you might not normally consider just to get some experience and a better CV, I started out in the IT buying department for the DFEE and ended up in paintball so go with the flow a little. It sounds like you are stuck in a rut, so try something that you wouldnt normally consider. For example try working for a small company where your IT knowledge could become usefull even if its not what you were employed to do.
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Is Sainsburies in the Arndale centre? If so its seriously time to change your job, you are going no where by working there, do something that you wouldn't perhaps consider but do something else.
The last bit of education I did was in art and design and yet years later I'm the manager of a big paintball site, so your qualifications to a certain extent are meaningless. Unless you are really good at something within IT you may struggle to earn decent money starting with low end IT jobs, everyone wants to get into IT and thinks they can earn their fortune but its not always the case. I love computers and the internets but I keep it for when I am not at work.
Unless Sainsburys are going to put you on their management training program I suggest its time you try something different. Its too easy to stay doing a job you know and time you did something else completely different. Sort out your CV and go and visit loads of agencies, go to Brighton and other places if you can't move away from Eastbourne. Try some different jobs that you might not normally consider just to get some experience and a better CV, I started out in the IT buying department for the DFEE and ended up in paintball so go with the flow a little. It sounds like you are stuck in a rut, so try something that you wouldnt normally consider. For example try working for a small company where your IT knowledge could become usefull even if its not what you were employed to do.
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Is Sainsburies in the Arndale centre? If so its seriously time to change your job, you are going no where by working there, do something that you wouldn't perhaps consider but do something else.
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Its the big Sainsburys at Hampden Park
i'm trying to get this CV sorted almost there i think been chopping and cutting things out. really want to get in to I.T , im willing to commute to London or the surrounding area but don't want to move location as of yet.I know this has gone on for some time now but it’s taken me this long to get to where I am,
I’ve managed to get my CV to 2 pages
Can someone rip my CV apart is there anything I don’t need I’m trying to aim for 1st / 2nd line support technician
but it’s taken me this long to get to where I am, I’ve managed to get my CV to 2 pages
Can someone rip my CV apart is there anything I don’t need I’m trying to aim for 1st / 2nd line support technician
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First of all can I suggest you remove your phone numbers. I've just gotten into IT myself (start on monday) So if you want to chat with me you can add my msn.
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