Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 - CV Tips, How to Write a CV, Professional CV, career management, career transition, curriculum vitae, cv help, cv writing, how to make a cv, job application, job search, job seeking
CV Writing: career positioning
When CV Writing, many think tactically about what goes where and what they should insert/invent to fill out the sections they have created. This approach from the start creates holes in their job application, which even the inexperienced HR administrator or recruiter could pick up on very quickly.
The problem is that the [...]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 - employment, job application, job interview, job search
How Would You Describe Yourself?
Kathy, an IT professional looking at moving for career development, asks: Hi team at CV4.biz, I hope this finds you all well – Bora Da! Love my new Professional CV and the results it is getting in positive engagement with lots of telephone interviews, but I am now getting nervous about [...]
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 - CV Tips, Interview Questions, career transition, employment, interview, interview techniques, job application, job search
Number 1 job interview question
The key question at any job interview is:
Why do you want this job?
Why are you interested in this job?
Or in its alternate poison tipped version, aimed directly at you started with a “In your own words, tell me….”
Why do I want this job?
Why I want this job?
If you get asked this [...]
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Sunday, July 5th, 2009 - CV Tips, Interview Questions, career transition, cv help, discipline, employment, job hunting, professionalism, redundancy, sacked, tutorial
Resign or Redundant?
Kirsty asks: Is it better on CV to resign from a job, or to be made redundant? I am considering changing my job but I think I might be made redundant in the next three months. Do future employers prefer to see ‘resigned from previous job’ or ‘made redundant from previous job’ on [...]
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 - career transition, interview techniques, job interview, tutorial
Job Interview
photo credit: Nils Geylen
Ruth asks: what is the best answer to the job interview question ”tell me about your CV”? This really threw me in my last interview and I didn’t know what to say! I got the job, but I have another interview on Tuesday. What should I say if they ask [...]
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