rickhamilton620
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I'm going to be editing my resume now, thanks for the tips guys.!
My CV is pretty much exactly 2 pages long, but everything is quite spaced out and it explains what I've done in each job before. Compared to others I've seen in this thread, mine will prolly be seen as too long, but the temp. companies I've been in contact with have told me the different things they like to see in a CV. Some of the new things I've added is a picture, a list of all the things I have experience (from the various jobs) with and also a description of what I did at each job.
This is atleast what I've learnt from applying to several different jobs for this summer.
The university course I'm going to be doing now very soon is a little different to what I've had work experience with, but I'd argue to keep it in there after graduation to show things like experience with team work, which is a universal requirement for most jobs. Just recently in a job I'm doing right now, I've been flabbergasted of how some people genuinely don't understand team work.
Community college, they just wanted it signed off on.I guess the person running your program wasn't too fussy about things like that? The one I had would have went "lol no" as he really wanted us to do something related to the program for our hours.
Community college, they just wanted it signed off on.
Interesting the different styles from other countries, I'd think someone was a bit up themselves if they stuck a picture of themselves on the resume.
I am probably in a much more comfortable position than most people here, having a job that pays a bit better than the average dutch starters job and a top notch degree (for this country at least), but it actually took me almost a year to find a job. I know how hard it can be to find work and how depressing the day of a rejection can be, especially if the interview and assessment centre went well.
I am actually looking at a new job at the moment, I am working in a very competitive environment at the moment, but I have some doubts about the future of my industry. Do you guys think I should adress this in my cover letter? Or just leave it out?
This. It's not normal here even to be asked for the names of referees unless you have a written offer letter.
Ugh, I'm repeatedly running into the brick wall that is "experience required".
It seems I am completely unable to any job without already having worked there before. I can't even get janitorial or cleaning jobs because I have no experience in the field.
Even fast food places are turning me down, its not so much "I have to start at the bottom" as "The bottom won't have me".
This is what happens when you leave college with a mediocre qualification in something useless like IT/Computing...
I have doubts about the field I am working in, not the one I'll be applying to. This is kind of the reason why I am thinking about finding work elsewhere.I'd never express doubts about the field your applying for a job in....I'd get the feeling that one would be insulted or kinda weirded out
See all I've got is experience in a bunch of things. Sales/Marketing (sort of,) Bar work, Manual Labour in the forms of working with animals and domestic. All sorts. An I have absolutely no formal qualifications what-so-ever. I left school at 15 wi' only me Standard Grades (Scottish GCSE's.) then went straight into work a few months later when I turned 16. I think there is such as thing as being "too" qualified for work but it is experience that's the cherry ont top of the cake really. In the 8 years I've been working, I've never really been out of a job. Even when I was a student.
My boyfriend how ever got made redundant in December just gone an' still has no job which I keep nipping his heels about, especially seeing as he's living off his stocks right now which ain't doing that good. He was doing Web Design for some Marketing company in SF, he an' a bunch of other folk in his department got called in one day an' left without jobs.