Nov
20
Choosing the Right School, Career for You
Posted In: Careers
Generally speaking the average person spends much more time at work then at home. It is a sad fact that we spend 8-10 hours in the office each day and only several hours at home a night before heading off to bed. This makes the choice of career an important one. Do you want to attend a regular college or go to one of the specialized beauty or laser schools? You could specialize in Restylane Training or other such high-demand procedures. On the other hand you may want to focus on dermatology or another area of medicine or you might just be interested in geography and want to pursue a career digging up things in the ground. Whatever your passion might be, there are many programs out there.
The first thing you should do when trying to figure out which career path you’d like to choose is make a list. Take a moment to think of all the things that interest you. This might not necessarily mean you choose things that you excel in. Many skills can be learned as you go through school or start on-the-job training. Next, think about those things that you do not like – things that you would never want to incorporate into a job. This might be important if you end up picking a career track that has a lot of classes in areas you can’t stand.
If you don’t have the time, energy, motivation or money to embark upon getting your bachelor’s degree, master’s degree or PhD then an associate’s or certification may be for you. There are tremendous opportunities out there for people of all walks of life. If you decide to get a certification in something make sure that it is something you are interested in and could see yourself doing. If you decide not to get any additional education your certification may be the driving force for employers to hire you. You don’t want to get stuck in a career you thought you’d like only to find out it is not a fit for you.
If that does happen to you then take a moment to start over again. Make another list – both good and bad things you want to do. Then, see if school is now an option or perhaps another certification will help you on your way. You might think about night classes or getting a night job and going to school during the day. There are adult programs, community education programs – there is something for every schedule. With the age of technology came online classes so you won’t even need to leave the comfort of your own home. However, remember that it might be difficult to learn certain subjects on your own or over the computer, keep this in mind when scheduling online courses.
It is a difficult task choosing a school and a career path. However, there are many options. Take a moment to look through a book or catalog on some of the things you might do if you did attain a degree or certification in a certain area. This might help you make your final decision.
Don’t give up. When the decisions get difficult it is not uncommon for people to run the other direction. But, your future and career goals are important. Take the time to make the right decision so that you can find a career that is fulfilling.
About the Author: Rebecca Beckett is a freelance writer for Innuity. If you would like more information about laser schools or Restylane Training go to Canyon State Laser
Article Source: Choosing the Right School, Career for You
Nov
20
I’m just wanting to start my career in law and feeling completely overwhelmed I received an email yesterday from a student who had decided to become a lawyer, has signed up to do their graduate diploma of law and legal practice course and was wondering what to do next. She said she was feeling a bit overwhelmed as to what she ought to be doing in the meantime.
Apart from the obvious advice that we always give, which is to make sure you really do want to be a lawyer before signing up to do these courses and spending over £12,000, that is to get some experience in exactly what it is a solicitor does in practice.However now is the time to be thinking about what you ought to be thinking, so the same advice.
The first step I advise everyone to take when considering a legal career is to go and get experience in exactly what it is a solicitor does in practice, and how their work fits in with everyone else’s.
For example, you do not need to necessarily go to a solicitors firm and get work experience (which is very hard to get these days anyway) as you could simply go to your local court and see some law in practice anyway. There are lots of different courts you can go and experience law in.
The first one, of course, is the Crown Court, which will contain specimens of barrister and solicitor standing before a grumpy judge, dealing mostly with criminal cases. Crown Courts are very easy to get into, and you can usually wonder about without anyone asking you any questions or terrifying you (every law student is terrified of anything to do with law in practice and I recall only too well how frightening courts and law firms are).
If you’re feeling particularly brave, you could also go to your local employment tribunal offices and go and watch an employment tribunal. This does involve speaking to someone as it is a good idea to actually phone the tribunal first and find out when they have any full hearings anticipated as opposed to adjournments or short hearings.
Incidentally the same applies to Crown Courts. If you go to your local Crown Court and speak to one of the ushers (they usually wear a black gown and hang around outside courts with a clipboard), they should be able to point you in the right direction for an interesting case involving a trial or sentencing hearing.
You can also try the Magistrates Court. The Magistrates Courts are not so interesting, but if you are thinking of being a solicitor and dealing with criminal law, for example, this is where you will spend most of your working time when at court. It is a good idea to go and sit and experience what a morning at the Magistrates Court is like, as it can be quite soul destroying in its monotony.
Other options include going to look at the local land registry office and this will involve telephoning land registry and asking if you can either get a day’s work experience or a week or just have a look round and see what work they do or speak to your local authority and ask if you can visit the legal department for the day.
Crown Prosecution Service have always been very helpful when it comes to work experience, and are happy for you to spend a week shadowing the prosecutors to see what work they do.
On the commercial side, if you were thinking of earning money and see what commercial lawyers do, this is slightly harder in that a lot of the law firms have structured work experience placements that you have to apply for and be lucky enough to receive.
There are opportunities to go and experience some of the work though. If you are near London or one of the areas with a commercial court (for example, I think Nottingham has one), you could go and see the workings of the litigation side and experience a bit of commercial litigation for a morning. I suspect on the whole this would be very boring, but will give you a good indication of the level of intellect that is usually required to do this type of law. Also a significant amount of patience, I suspect would assist as some of it is mind numbingly boring.
Other options include speaking to any large PLCs near your home (for example, Proctor and Gamble or Ford Motors) and asking if you can go and spend a few days in their legal department to see what work they do. It will give you commercial experience and would not involve a work experience placement which is what you will need to get if you are looking at law firm.All of this is fundamentally important, and every time I speak to anyone about getting into law,
I can go on for hours about the need for work experience. Work experience is the spark on your CV that makes the difference between you and the vast majority of your colleagues on your various courses. The vast majority of people do not get experience and as a result are unable to show anything different on their CV when they apply for jobs. If the lawyer simply has their academic background to look at as evidence that the person has thought very carefully about where they want to work and know exactly what it is. So if you are feeling completely overwhelmed in one way that is good because it may spur you into some sort of action to get experience.
Apart from getting legal experience another good thing to do if you are starting law from scratch at post graduate level is to go and buy the GCSE and A-level text books.Learn the terminology and in particular the structure of the courts and the difference between a barrister and a solicitor.
It is amazing how many LPC graduates do not know that a Crown Court is higher than a Magistrates Court or the High Court is lower than the Court of Appeal. In fact it is frightening to think that someone could have gone through all that training and spent all that money only to not know the very basic things about the English legal system.
The legal practice course and the graduate diploma of law were not intended to explain the basics to you. You must go and find these out yourselves, and this particular bit of advice coupled with the requirement to get work experience are the two main pieces of advice that I could give anyone planning to set out a career in law.
Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment. He regularly advises law students and graduates free of charge and also undertakes career coaching sessions for anyone contemplating a career in law or a change when they are already in law.
www.ten-percent.co.uk
www.legalrecruitment.blogspot.com
www.lawsociety.org.uk
Article Source: I’m wanting to start my career in law and am feeling completely overwhelmed
Nov
20
Ten Percent Legal Recruitment is running Legal Careers Workshops in London on Tuesday 16th December for law students and graduates, or anyone wanting to get into the legal profession.
It has been suggested by commentators that attending this sort of workshop could be constituted as cheating to get ahead in the legal profession, as they offer the course delegates an insight into recruitment and legal job interviews. The day starts at 10am, finishes at 5pm and is probably the most intensive course you can think of to fit everything relating to starting your legal career into one day and to keep the cost affordable to law students and graduates. In a nutshell it is seven hours of information and practice to ensure that you get the best shot at starting your legal career.
Timetable:9.45 am Registration and refreshments10 am Assessment Day Workshop11.15 am Break for refreshments11.30 am Interview Workshop1 pm Lunch (provided)1.45 pm CV Workshop3 pm Break for refreshments3.15 pm Covering letter workshop3.45 pm Application form workshop4.30 pm General career and individual questions
The course covers just about every aspect of applying for legal work, going for interviews and assessments and securing a training contract or pupillage, vacation placement post, work experience, paralegal or fee earning work or a mini-pupillage.We have been coaching law students and lawyers for over eight years. We currently provide careers workshops at Huddersfield University for their LPC students, and responses to date have been very favourable.
The course will be run by Jonathan Fagan who is a well-known commentator on legal recruitment and Managing Director of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment. Jonathan is a qualified solicitor & recruitment consultant, and personally coaches lawyers from law students up to senior partners. Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment has been around for a long time, and has over 5,000 solicitors registered, 2,000 legal executives, and over 6,000 law firms across the UK and worldwide have used our services.
The course will essentially cover every angle we can think for each of the workshop sessions.A breakdown of the sessions is as follows:
1. Assessment Day Workshop
Assessment days are a bit of an unknown for most people who have not been on one as they vary so widely between law firms and no-one ever explains what the firm or assessors are looking for. This can lead to all sorts of problems in terms of the way people present themselves when attending assessment days and candidates do not always do themselves justice. We look at each element of a typical assessment day, go through live exercises with you for each of these so that you can have a go at an assessment day scenario. It is the first workshop of the day and it will be a good simulation of a similar environment to a real assessment day. Get the nerves and the mistakes out of the way now so you are ready for the real thing..
2. Interview Workshop
For some assessment days, the interviews are held in the afternoon after a cull has been made at lunchtime. Interviews are one of the hardest parts of any training contract or job application as it is the one chance you have in a very short space of time to make an impression on your future employers. We conduct practice interviews with you and provide feedback as well as going through each type of question that could be put to you, so you can see the different ways of answering and also understand why questions are being asked. Full feedback is provided.
3. CV Workshop
The CV workshop will provide you with an assessment of your current CV and suggest ways of improving it. It is not just standard and general CV advice, the advice you receive will be specialist legal CV advice aimed at tailoring your CV according to your experience and background in a way that makes it stand out.At the same time, careers advice will be given as it is inevitable in most CVs that extra items are added, such as improving the amount of work experience you have or ensuring that you have presented your interests and activities in a way that employers will want to see. You must submit your CV to us 7 days before the course starts.
4. Covering Letter Workshop
Covering letters are probably not as important as most people think, but there is still a way of writing them and we will go through this with you to ensure that you do not miss the opportunity to sell yourself a little bit more to a future employer.
5. Application Form Workshop
This workshop will cover all aspects of completing application forms and you can bring along your own to go through in the session. If you have any already, we can review them for you before you turn up to the session and go through any parts that need looking at in detail during our workshop
6. General Legal Careers Advice Workshop
During this session we will look at individual circumstances and talk through options available to you. It is also your chance to ask the course leader any questions you may have on legal careers and the legal profession. The day will also include unlimited numbers of tips for starting a legal career, dropped into the course where appropriate.By the end of the day, you should have gained an advantage over your peers as you will have a head start in knowing what is going to happen in an interview, how to handle assessment days, how to complete application forms, how to prepare your CV to and preparing covering letters.
The usual cost of receiving individual Legal Career Coaching from Jonathan Fagan is at least £500. Our CV reviews start at £85, and our CV preparation service £154.99. For £150 + VAT you receive a full days worth of advice and practice.
www.ten-percent.co.uk
www.legalrecruitment.blogspot.com
Article Source: Why should I go on a Ten Percent Legal Careers Workshop
Nov
20
Know Your Employees
Posted In: Careers
Pre-employment Tests have been made very popular in the last century by the multinational companies. Nowadays, both large and small organizations use this kind of testing to pick out the suitable candidates for a particular job profile. These tests are conducted to assure that the prospective employees fit in with the organization’s structure and work environment, and can identify with the values and goals. Since the current job culture involves working for long hours in tandem with a large number of colleagues, it is extremely crucial that each employee be comfortable enough to reach his or her potential. This ensures not only a healthy work environment, but also assures the long term productivity and financial success of the organization.
Pre-employment tests can be of various kinds:
* Skills tests
* Aptitude tests
* Psychological tests
* Personality tests
* Honesty tests
* Medical tests
* Drug tests
Aptitude, psychological and personality tests are conducted to gain valuable insight into the candidate’s general abilities, personality, and psyche. However, it is necessary to screen these tests scientifically to ensure validity.
Honesty tests are not viable under a lot of circumstances and are generally avoided by employers. This is particularly true in the case of businesses that provide armored car services, alarm or guard services, or ones that manufacture, distribute, or dispense pharmaceuticals.
Medical tests are generally conducted only after a candidate has been made an offer to join the organization. However, to prevent a violation of the law, it must be ensured that all the employees in a similar work profile be required to undergo the tests.
Drug tests too should be conducted only in cases where the employee is recruited for a job that involves public safety.
Personality testing, inspite of certain drawbacks, can prove to be tremendously useful in screening applicants for employment. It is based on the premise is that if the test scores correlate with the job performance, it would be economically beneficial for the employer to recruit employees based on that test. Validated pre-employment tests provide a more objective evaluation of a candidate, and can be a lot more effective than structured interviews or behavioral interviews.
The personality tests, tests of general intelligence and job-knowledge tests are used for various purposes such as:
* Training and development
* Customer service testing
* Career assessment
* Reducing employee turnover
* Leadership development
* Applicant screening
Good pre-employment personality assessments can be a great way for the organizations to choose prospective employees.
McQuaig offers a proven web-based package of behavioral assessments for pre-employment testing.
Article Source: Know Your Employees
Nov
19
How to become a paramedic? Career guide
Posted In: Careers
Now days Paramedic job is in demanding and rewarding. The nature of this job is a challenging and difficult application process, but this kind of works is too much different than any other type of works.
We often find that most of people turn to the paramedic recruitment day unprepared and worried about what is going to happen and what to do to become a paramedic? What are career guide for this type of job? People with lack of confidence and assessment team pick up n this form the moment; they walk in the door and for many people its downhill from this career.
There is a selection procedure that you should follow to pass with good marks. Proper guidance makes you easy to score well. Following career guidelines will be helpful for you:
[1] For becoming a paramedic, you must be registered with the health professions council [HPC].
[2] It is compulsory to register your application. And for that you will need to complete an approval qualification and period of clinical training with an ambulance service.
[3] Health Professional Council – has hold details of approval training provider. It has mentioned tow routes leading to get register as a paramedic;
Higher Education [ direct entry route]:
There are many universities are offering higher education approved by HPC and necessary course of paramedic leading to a foundation degree, diploma of higher education or degree in paramedic science.
Entry requirements will defer depending on the qualification you would like to achieve, but will often include; Five GCSES, English, Mathematics and Science, Natural Science and Life Science. You have to choose exact details because these options depends on universities contain. Sometimes relevant access to Higher Education Qualification may be accepted.
Traditional Work- based route:
Traditional work – based route occupies to join the ambulance services as an ambulance care assistant; it may allow entry at technician level. If you have an experience and promotion to ambulance technician, you may be able to apply through open competition for a place on paramedic training which leas to the Institute of health Care Development Qualification.
General guidelines for requirement to become a paramedic:
As you want to become a paramedic; you will need to meet some basic conditions which will se by the ambulance services. Any kind of route chosen by you needs u to fulfill following requirements:
You should be complete 18 years of your age [21 in some other services]
You should be obtained good general standard of education.
You should be able to pass series o recruitment tests.
You should be physically capable for having medical tests.
You should have a full manual driving license for at least of one year. If you have passed your driving test after 1996, then you will need an extra driving qualification which is known as (1 and D1). This license allows you to drive passengers carrying; medium sized vehicles more than 3.5 tones. Some ambulance services may carry you through this extra driving qualification, though; this is not standard put into practice. All ambulance services carry out a CRB police check.
These are the few career guidelines to become a paramedic.
Nick Redding is author of How to become a paramedic.
For more information www.howtobecomeaparamedic.co.uk
Article Source: How to become a paramedic? Career guide
Nov
19
Become an Accountant or Auditor
Posted In: Careers
Accountants and auditors are responsible for maintaining the fiscal health and integrity of a business, individual client, or government agency. To do this, they need to keep and maintain accurate records, ensure that taxes get paid properly and on time, analyze and communicate financial information, verify financial documents, make transfers of capital or income, and in some cases, provide financial and investment planning for their clients. The profession of accounting and auditing can be roughly broken down into four major categories: management accounting, government accounting, internal auditing, and public accounting. Management accountants record and analyze financial information of business enterprises. Government accountants and auditors maintain and examine the records of government agencies and they also audit private businesses and individuals whose activities are subject to government regulations. Internal auditors examine a corporation’s internal processes for efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance with corporate policies and government regulations. Public accountants perform a wide variety of activities in the realms of accounting, auditing, tax, and consultation. Their clients may be corporations, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, or individuals. Most accountants and auditors work in a typical office setting and usually work a standard 40-hour week. However, those who specialize in taxes often find themselves working long hours during the tax season.
Education, Certification, Licensing
The standard educational qualification for most careers in this field is a bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, or a related area. However, those with a master’s degree have a much higher level of opportunity. Many employers also look favorably on students with significant computer proficiency or work experience in jobs involving some type of number-crunching. Some universities and colleges are now offering specialty programs to prepare students to work in a specialized profession such as internal auditing.
Any accountant who is required to file a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is required by law to be a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Many accountants and auditors choose to obtain this valued certification anyway. In order to earn this certification, an accountant must pass the four-part national CPA exam and must also meet the other requirements of the state where he/she chooses to practice (CPAs are licensed by their State Board of Accountancy). As of 2007, 42 states and the District of Columbia required CPA candidates to complete 150 semester hours of college coursework, which entails an additional 30 hours beyond the typical four-year bachelor’s degree. Several other states have adopted similar legislation that will become effective before 2009. Prospective accounting majors should carefully research requirements of any states in which they hope to become licensed. Most licenses must be renewed periodically and nearly all states require CPAs to complete a certain number of hours of continuing professional education before their licenses can be renewed.
This article on accountant and auditor training and careers has been provided courtesy of City Town Info.
Article Source: Become an Accountant or Auditor
Nov
19
CV Writing Tips - How is a Good CV Used?
Posted In: Careers
How is a Good CV Used?
The good news is that your CV may be used in various ways for different purposes, but your CV is not written to get a job. It is a self-marketing tool to get you a meeting or job interview.
When responding to an advertised job vacancy, a well written CV and a good covering letter will be instrumental in obtaining those vital interviews.
Most recruiters use CVs as a method of screening people out rather than in, so pay attention to avoiding the pitfalls and any negative statements, always be positive, communicating your aspirations, skills, demonstrated abilities and achievements. (You can download a free CV template to suit your profession and job search needs online at my website).
If an appointment is being headhunted, a Researcher or a Search Consultant handling the assignment will speak to the job candidate before you provide a CV to the employer before or during an interview. You job candidate will have learned a good deal about the job before the delivery of the CV. Usually Head-hunters will not pass your CV on to the employer. Instead, they should make a CV or profile for you, the job candidate. You may send your CV to Head-hunters on a speculative basis. It may then used to decide whether or not to put you on their database.
When you are networking, you may take your CV along to meetings with a view either to asking for advice on it or in order to give copies to your network contacts, which they may in turn pass on to other people who could have a job for you.
When you are making speculative applications, you are initially likely to send a letter, rather than a CV, perhaps taking your CV along to any meetings you obtain. It will then be used in much the same way that slides or handouts are at a presentation - as something to refer to in order to give structure to the session and as a reminder, afterwards, of the key points.
Mike Kelley has written many articles on various topics including CV Writing and this time writing article on CV Writing Tips. For more details about CV Writing Tips please visit: http://www.cv-service.org
Article Source: CV Writing Tips - How is a Good CV Used?
Nov
19
CV Writing Tips with Templates
Posted In: Careers
How to Make a Good CV (and get it read).
If you have ever been involved in writing a CV properly you will know how much care and effort goes into it. If you put yourself in the reader’s shoes – you may remember all those marketing brochures that have landed on your desk or been pushed through your door. How many have you actually read all the way through? Or, did you just briefly glance at them in a second or two to be placed on a pile or draw for reading later or thrown in the bin…
What makes this happen? Why does all the effort get wasted?
What people do that raises criticisms against their CVs:
1) They make them too long.
2) They make them with too much content or text.
3) They make them with too many different fonts.
4) They make them with poor design.
5) They are badly worded.
6) They make them too glossy.
7) Just too boring.
Just like all the others.
9) They make them too gimmicky.
10) No benefits of the product or services communicated.
Write a Good CV
* Write what the reader wants to know, not all that you want to say.
* Bullet point benefits you have contributed to present and previous employers.
* Write your CV as you would a Professionally written marketing brochure.
* You can download a CV template online at First Impressions
Using a 3rd Party to Write your CV
Be careful, employers and recruiters can be put off, if your CV looks and is worded mostly the same as all the other CVs that they see. If you commission a CV Writer to produce your CV, they may use CV template and copy other CV content to your own so your CV will not be customized or unique. If you look in the job vacancies pages of the newspapers, you may see a section headed ‘CV Services’, with quite a few different companies offering to write a good CV for you at varying rates. While these writers may, produce very good CVs with a superior presentation they are mostly, by my experience and in the eye’s of recruiters and employers, too standardized and still full of those buzz words and phrases no matter what profession you seem to be in. CVs produced by a standard CV template in this way are often mass-produced, and sometimes excessively gimmicky, with the wording “way over the top” and this can make your CV and you seem glib and arrogant.
Mike Kelley has written many articles on various topics including CV Writing and this time writing article on CV Writing Tips with Templates. For more details about CV Writing Tips please visit: http://www.cv-service.org
Article Source: CV Writing Tips with Templates
Nov
19
How to Make a Targeted CV
Posted In: Careers
In the past, no one retyped their CV every time they applied for a job. Now, with the introduction of Word Processing you can, if you wish, customize your CV to all job applications. However, the effort involved should be justified. If it makes a difference to you getting a really good job, then it is probably worthwhile. Otherwise, specific re-targeting may be best left for just the covering letter. The CV can be more generally targeted to the job area, sector or industry, with maybe a change in the opening CV‘s Profile or Career Object Statement stating your aspirations. As everyone’s job search situations are different, there is no single answer to the question on “How to Make a CV” suit all, but there are some simple criteria that can be used to help you make the decision. As a general rule it wise to play the numbers game and submit your CV to as many viable jobs as possible within the advertised and unadvertised job markets.
As an exercise, when you feel you need to submit a CV, ask yourself the following questions: What skills am I selling? To whom am I selling? Why do they need my skills? Why should they choose me rather than other candidates? If you feel a general CV targeted only to the job area or industry will work, then fine – send your CV off with the covering letter, but be honest with yourself don’t just take the easy option because you cannot be bothered with more specific CV targeting. (You can download a CV template at my website). Personally, I support the general CV as you can specifically write the covering letter for every job application. The general CV can be “over targeted” i.e. it can be best if you communicate and fit the job criteria with the impression that you have just pulled the CV out of the bottom draw and written the letter. With this in mind, from my experience it is then best to write the letter in a different font type and different paper.
How to Make a CV – (The Personal Profile or Career Objective Statement)
‘If I get one more results-orientated, dynamic, sales executive today, I shall throw up!’ To add individual impact to your CV is to include a paragraph the intention of which is to summarize, in no more than a few lines, your experience and achievements, maybe you skills but not your personal attributes, (unless you a school leaver of graduate with little or no experience). The personal profile can be closed off with a short career statement matching your aspirations maybe with a titled job vacancy - the same personal profile may not be is appropriate for every vacancy. This is written at the beginning of your CV immediately after your name, address and contact details.
Personal Profile and Career Objective Statement Errors
* Copying other profile examples and over used content taken from job advertisements.
* Too much focus on personal attributes rather than skills, experience and achievements.
* Writing a profile that sounds just like any number candidate.
Make your CV as a solution to somebody’s problem and rewrite your closing sentence in your profile to suit a specific job target or job area. This will also focus your mind (experience, skills and achievements) that need to be communicated to your potential employer and the reasons why you are the right person for the job. Write your achievements with bullet points quantifying them if you can. More specific achievements can also be written in the covering letter for greater impact.
Mike Kelley has written many articles on various topics including CV Writing and this time writing article on How to Make a Targeted CV. For more details about Targeted CV please visit: http://www.cv-service.org
Article Source: How to Make a Targeted CV
Nov
19
The Best CV format?
Posted In: Careers
Which is best CV Format or Layout? In short, the format preferred by the vast majority of employers and decision makers is one that is
1. Targeted, 2. Has reverse chronology and 3. Achievement Based (if appropriate).
A CV layout that covers these prerequisites is what we can call the “Universal CV format”. This format can also include career functions and more skills. Here is a outline list of the suggested layout with CV formats online. The Layout can change according to the writer’s career history and education.
1. Contact details - name, address, telephone number (a mobile or cell number is OK).
2. Personal profile and / or Career Statement i.e. a Personal Profile with and Objective Statement, (keep it factual, no hype)
3. Key Skills Index.
4. Educational details.
5. Career History (Professional Experience), reverse chronological. This should include your level of responsibility and bullet pointed achievements.
6. Achievements - bullet point under the companies they relate to.
7. Personal Details – hobbies, interests, marital status, year of birth, driving license.
This Universal CV Format has the added advantage of focusing attention at an early stage on your most recent experience which, in the vast majority of cases, will also be the most relevant.
The Hybrid CV format has the added advantage of also communicating career functions or more skills and abilities for targeting purposes.
Other CV formats include; Straight Chronological? Reversed Chronological? Functional? Targeted? Basic? Performance? Comprehensive? International?
Here’s a brief outline of their advantages and disadvantages.
Most readers will initially only give your CV only a quick glance. A straight chronological CV format dispels ‘most recent and relevant experience first’ argument – you need to grab their attention straight away. With both chronological formats (straight or reverse) has the inherent disadvantage of highlighting gaps between jobs, frequent changes of employer (although this can be a good thing) and changes in career direction. With a functional CV. Experience and achievements can be categorized under functional headings such ‘Management’, ‘Technical’ ‘Sales’, Training’ etc., rather than being listed under employer. Career history is then summarized in reverse chronology, towards the later part of the CV. Unfortunately, whichever way you make your CV, you will always find someone who likes it written differently including CV Consultants, and recruiters and employers.
The Universal CV is a format that pleases as many people as possible as much of the time as possible.
Mike Kelley has written many articles on various topics including CV Writing and this time writing article on The Best CV format. For more details about CV format please visit: http://www.cv-service.org
Article Source: The Best CV format?