Publisher's Synopsis
Written by an experienced recruiter with over 30 years' experience within the recruitment industry, this guide is a highly practical and easy to follow job hunting and CV writing guide. The guide, in other formats, has been used to help more than 6,000 job seekers achieve employment across the UK and Ireland. It is a step-by-step, teach yourself instruction manual. Recruiters may spend as little as 15 seconds when first appraising a CV, in the case of teenagers, a survey in 'The Times' states this is 8.8 seconds. Gaining a quick and immediate impact is essential - this guide will show you how.Job hunting techniques have also changed radically in the last 10 years'. Most people do not use all the job search tools available to them, or do not use them effectively. Included within the CV writing section: -How to structure your CV - covering CV's for all levels and disciplines-CV template examples-Advice on how to optimise your CV for a CV database-How to tailor a CV for a specific role-Career changer CV's - using transferable skills-Biographical (chronological) and functional (skill based) CV's For those just starting out it also includes: school leavers; graduate; and apprenticeship CV's with CV templates.For job hunters the guide covers: Job boards, Job board search engines / meta-crawlers, CV databases and effectively using them, LinkedIn - in great depth, Networking, Social media and job hunting, Speculative approaches, Effectively working recruitment agencies, Covering letters, Application forms, Building a job search action plan. Highly practical in nature, a guide you will keep in a safe place 'just in case'.
