Monday, January 16, 2017

Just sending your CV is a waste of time by Ian Hammond

I use LinkedIn a lot!  And I notice many people asking people to review their profiles.  I have also had a lot of communication from people who presently have no job and who tell me that they have sent their CV's so often with no response.  I have advertised sales jobs a few times and the amount and (almost) invariably poor CV's that I get is truly astounding.  There are a lot of people out there who are desperate to contribute to the economy!
Posting your CV on-line, entering it into recruiter's databases, is exactly what these companies want.  One of their products is a large range of CV's to put onto a database which they can access.  Imagine a recruitment agency with about 100 or more CV's for a boilermaker or a similar work.  What will make your CV stand out?  In my view nothing.  All CV's I have read are more or less the same: School, study, work, references, black on white.

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