How to improve job prospects - your CV

1. How To
Improve
Job
Prospects
:
Your CV

2. Why is it important to improve
your CV?
• Improving your job
prospects has to
involve improving
your CV – because it
means that you have
grown as a
candidate.

3. Do you really know what a CV is?
• A CV is a character
profile.
• It is you and
everything you offer
condensed into a
readable package.

4. Don’t just focus on the new
• Improving your CV could
just mean a CV
restructure.
• If you have a career path,
or at least a career
environment, you can
work towards building
your CV around that idea.

5. Build your CV with training and
education
• Training courses and
education are an
appealing way to
build a CV.
• You should also be
able to demonstrate
you have been
practising what you
learnt.

6. Build your CV with training and
education
• When putting education and training, or even
personal interests on your CV, think ahead to the
interview – could your interviewer know about this
topic as well?
• Be prepared for questions or even demos.

7. Build your CV with part-time
education
• Education in employment is
another way to improve job
prospects.
• Taking management courses
is a great example to show
you want to progress.
• They will also build general
skills that are applicable
outside of work.

8. Build your CV with voluntary
experience
• Those who commit to
helping without payment
show commitment to
bettering themselves.
• In the eyes of an
employer it shows that
they value work as well
as money.

9. Build your CV with work
experience
• Work experience will be
a boost to your job
prospects, and may even
lead to further work.

10. Build your CV with
apprenticeships
• Apprentices receive the benefit of training courses with
actual and sustained work experience.
• Employers will value apprenticeships as they are a
combination of work and learning.

11. Build your CV with
apprenticeships
• Apprentices earn much less than the
minimum wage, but that also means they
are far more likely to be taken on in place of
anyone else at entry level.

12. What if you ditch the
traditional CV
altogether?

13. One man chose to advertise himself on a billboard, with
‘I spent my last £500 on this billboard. Please give me a
job' written on it, and a link to his website – and it
worked.

14. A graduate job seeker stood in Waterloo Station with a
piece of paper asking people to take a CV – and it
worked.

15. Perhaps these creative
approaches can be far more
successful than the standard
black-and-white CV

16. Building your CV
is just the first
step in
successfully
landing a job.
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