CV

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I'm currently writing my CV up for a job, but I'm stuck!

What the hell do you put under the 'profile' part? I can only thing of making it sound like I'm signing up for a dating site!

Its nothing special, working in a call centre for car and home insurance, so want to try and word it around that.

I'm also trying to find a way to word 'sitting behind a till serving people their fuel'. At the moment I've got 'processing sales though the till'. Is there anyway of wording that better?

Thanks for any help .

It was meant to go into 'Dear Auntie'...if someone could move it that would be great!

[Handsome]

Customer Services etc...
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Currently working in a highly customer focused role...blah blah

[Ariel Badger]

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[chrisw]

[angryjonny]

Not sure what you mean by "profile" but I wouldn't waffle too much about yourself personally. You want them to employ you not be your best bud. Stick to appropriate stuff like your career history (list all your responsibilities etc) qualifications and the like.

Manning the counter at a petrol station can easily be stretched out to customer service; list any responsibilities you have like handling cash, cashing up, dropping tankers, do you have keyholder responsibilties etc? Do you man the place alone after hours - i.e. have the responsibility for the whole place? No need to talk it down.

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[Ariel Badger]

You need a profile, it is who you are.
" A time served gravedigger who is highly motivated, a good team worker but is also at home digging graves under his own initiative and solving problems. Highly skilled in all aspects of MS office and gravedig3.6.
Full Uk drivers licence and never perves over stiffs."
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[bikertomm]

Instead of putting CV at the top I'd just put my name, and I made the same mistake of printing a few out and then realising 'license' is spelt 'licence' lol



Also I reckon another sentence or two for your personal profile.. I'd tell you mine but I'm going bed. Will do tommorow!


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[chrisw]

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That was the professional experience of a grave digger.
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[mistergixer]

^^ It's a responsible position, people under you etc.
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[chrisw]

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First off, any job you're serious about you should be customising the CV for that job.

Just had a look at the last CV I did (which got a reasonable return of interest and an interview, despite not having applied for much.)

I have "My Name Curriculam Vitae" at the top in bold etc - more so if it gets chucked down a desk they can easily see what it is.

Then full name and address to the left with email and phone to the right.

Then your 'personal profile' - I don't use a heading for this and have it centred.
"Experienced lead tester seeks move to contracting positions." is what I've got in this one I'm looking at, but others I would change depending on the job I was applying for.
I have ummed and ahhed about this, especially as some of them turned out pretty cliched, but over all thought it was worth have a very succinct synopsis at the start.

I then have 'Skills', although looking back I think "Key Skills" might be a better section heading; though I already have 9 bullet points which contain ever more bits of information per line - overloaded a bit, it'd be better to keep it simpler if possible (I remember taking quite a few out too.)

Then I go through job history in reverse chronological order. Each job gets a relatively less page real-estate. First is over half a page, last is five lines.
For each job I'm basically trying to give examples that backup the claims in my 'skills' section. I've done this with a block of descriptive text followed by a bullet point summary.

Then I've got a quick section split in to two, first called 'additional' which lists stuff like driving licence, first-aid and being British.
Then 'other interests' which has just 4 points in that hopefully also help substantiate the 'skills' section.

[Dr. DaveJPS]

[bikertomm]

I spent ages on the darn CV, when I applied it was all done online anyway so it did'nt even get used

Couple of lines from my personal profile are things like I am very pro-active and keen to learn and develop new skills, able to use own initiative and would be a loyal and dependable employee, pride myself on time-keeping skills, willing to help out ect ect...

I tried not to use all the normal things but meh.. I'm happy with how it turned out!

Hope that helps


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Had to check, but yes, do have correctly spelt on the actual CV .

[chrisw]

Posted on El'Reg today:

Why your tech CV sucks

Blunt, but it's worth reading.

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Thanks for all the help! I changed a few things, added a few long words in and sent it! Hopefully it will be worth it, I want to quit Tesco soon!

Hear back within 2 working days, if I've not heard by Monday evening, I guess its a dead end!

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Well I didn't hear back on Monday...heard back today! Had a phone interview...bit strange as I had just come out of the gym, sweating like hell! Sat in my car with my windows steaming up. Long as no one thinks I was having a wank though!

Must have done OK as I have a interview tomorrow

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Interview done!

Think it went OK, had to do a spelling test as well! Fucking hate spelling! I'm shit at it.

Its a big step going from Tesco to car insurance sales, I've never had to meet targets before. Anyone got any experience with what its like?

Apparently the floor has a average of 20% of sales. No idea if this is high or not!

Any advice would be great .

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Failed! ha!

Oh well, gives me plenty of time to get my fitness up for the Army!

Thinking about it...saying I see myself in the Police or Military Police in 5 years time wasn't what they wanted to hear I don't think!

[bikertomm]