We work with a wide range of clients. Many with international offices, hundreds of employees, huge HR departments and nobody has 5 minutes time on their hands to read through the CV which you have spend hours and hours creating.
Some say that you only have a few seconds to make an impression. Others say it’s down to luck and catching the right person at the right time. We believe it’s a combination of the two.
Put yourself in the following picture:
Your architectural firm has just been given a huge project. You’re slightly understaffed and need someone with certain skills to help work on it. You have placed the relevant adverts and you now have 11 CVs to go through. From these 11, maybe only 1 will seem to be perfect for the job, 2 others could be potentials and the rest… deleted.
Let us assume that, from the rejected CVs, 1 of them was perfect. The experience matched, the qualifications are relevant and the candidate lives reasonably close. He’s available and also for the right money.
If your CV isn’t laid out correctly, modified, reworked, rewritten and it does not get the reader’s attention in a few seconds then it isn’t good enough and you won’t get the job. You won’t get the next job or the next one. You will get a job eventually but it probably will not be your ideal job.
This is what we do for a living. We look at CVs constantly. Hundreds every week. We know what we’re looking for. We can spot a good candidate even from a badly laid out CV. One which a client might not even read.
The majority of people spend more time planning their holiday or the purchase of their new car than they do on putting their CV together. In many cases the CV structure itself is wrong, tells a confusing story or may be misleading. If this is the case, a recruiter or potential employer will not spend any longer than a few seconds skimming it before it heads into the round filing cabinet.
By structuring and planning what is and what isn’t required on your CV you are making a conscious effort to be better than your competition and to stand out for the rest.
In simple terms, if you want to be considered for more jobs and invited for more interviews then you must have a CV which people will want to read. One which recruiters and employers will take the trouble of e-mailing to their colleagues or printing out and reading on the train on the way home from work.
If you spend hours researching that new car and trying to get the best deal on your summer holiday then you will have to invest time in preparing your CV to be the best that it can be.
We can write your CV for you but we will need your help to do so.
A professionally written CV will dramatically improve your chances of being interviewed and cut the length of time you spend looking for a job.
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