Cormac Moylan

When I created my CV after finishing college, I passed it onto about ten people for comment and assessment. The ten or so people were made up of close friends, those in the IT industry and a few randomers who I contacted via a recruitment forum. The feedback I received from doing this was excellent. I gathered all the suggestions and created a CV for the better.

There are a lot of basics to having a good CV. Poor grammar is a death nail, as is not naming your CV properly. Recruitment agencies must receive hundreds of ‘cv.doc’ files a week from job seekers. Calling your CV ‘First-Name-Last-Name-CV-.doc’ might be the difference between your CV having the Recycle Bin as its destination as opposed to a Recruiter’s desktop. Your CV has to separate yourself from the herd. You have to sell yourself in your CV. Think of yourself as a product. You’re going to have to land a good impression within maybe 15 seconds of someone throwing their eye over your CV.

Paul has posted the first of a series of blog posts based on CVs via his Eirjobs Blog | RSS. Paul explains that

over the next few weeks we will be bring you articles by Paul Mullan from Measurability.ie. Measurability offers career coaching to individuals looking to change careers as well as companies looking to train their staff for better things.

The first introductory article provides the reasons why most CV’s fail.

I’m looking forward to reading the entire series of articles as I have recently left my job and I’m once again firing off my CV.

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