CV and Interview Tips
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Your CV is a very important document. It is a summary of who you are, where you've worked, and it needs to convince the reader very quickly to read on beyond the first page and that you are worth investing more of their time in. Its main objective is to gain you an interview and its second objective is to give an initial impression of you as a brand.
As someone working in the marketing and communications field, remember the skills that you apply to brands can also be applied to yourself, so keep your objective in mind and create a strategy and plan for your CV.
In an ideal world, your CV would be targeted 100% to each individual job, but lack of time can prevent this.
A good CV:
- Is no more than three pages in length.
- Its content and style is targeted to your target audience, i.e. the interviewer(s).
- Says enough without saying too much.
- It needs to convey both what makes you different or better than your competitors.
- Putting the education section first.
- Not putting the most recent information e.g. jobs and qualifications first.
- Making it too long/wordy so the reader switches off.
- Having too much detail about what you do in your job, rather than how you've added value.
- Including references.
- Lying/exaggerating your role.
- Put the key information on the first page, i.e. your name and address; paragraph summary about your years' experience and achievements and initiatives.
- Unless you have under five years experience, put where you've worked and what you've done further back in a tidy format.
- Include training and other information such as hobbies to give a flavour of you the person.
- Don't repeat information - summarise your core skills.
- Get feedback from people you know and trust; recruitment agencies and interviewers can also provide useful pointers.
Practise getting to the venue to see how long it will take. Public transport may be useless, the traffic may have been heavy, but however reasonable it won’t affect the fact that your chances are reduced if you are late.
Always remember - You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Aim to be early - you can always find a nearby cafe/shop/pub to wait in. And if worst comes to worst and you are going to be late, then definitely ring in and let them know.
Practise getting to the venue to see how long it will take. Public transport may be useless, the traffic may have been heavy, but however reasonable it won’t affect the fact that your chances are reduced if you are late.
Always remember - You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Aim to be early - you can always find a nearby cafe/shop/pub to wait in. And if worst comes to worst and you are going to be late, then definitely ring in and let them know.
Practise getting to the venue to see how long it will take. Public transport may be useless, the traffic may have been heavy, but however reasonable it won’t affect the fact that your chances are reduced if you are late.
Always remember - You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Aim to be early - you can always find a nearby cafe/shop/pub to wait in. And if worst comes to worst and you are going to be late, then definitely ring in and let them know.
Practise getting to the venue to see how long it will take. Public transport may be useless, the traffic may have been heavy, but however reasonable it won’t affect the fact that your chances are reduced if you are late.
Always remember - You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Aim to be early - you can always find a nearby cafe/shop/pub to wait in. And if worst comes to worst and you are going to be late, then definitely ring in and let them know.