State of the Market

[elsergiovolador]

Someone sent me their CV asking if I have any job. Unfortunately not fit to be mine substitute.

Silence continues...

[northernladuk]

Someone sent me their CV asking if I have any job. Unfortunately not fit to be mine substitute.

Silence continues...

Their grasp of English too good or summat?

[ContractorHardman]

Small Tip - It is becoming very evident that candidates hunting for a new role have 2-5 different CV’s, especially for people in roles and environments such as projects, change, transformation and analysis. This makes you difficult to market and shows lack of self direction. Think about where you want to go in your own career and have one tailored CV! You may find you pick up a new position which you want, rather than one you need.... even in these tough times! Good luck everyone job hunting, we keep going!

This was a tip that was on my LinkedIn feed from a recruiter this morning. I personally have 2-3 CVs bringing out my experience for the 2 different fields I work in. I have been told clients want CVs tailored towards the job you apply for, not a general CV.

Thoughts?

[LondonManc]

Someone sent me their CV asking if I have any job. Unfortunately not fit to be mine substitute.

Silence continues...

How is suity these days?

[Old Greg]

How is suity these days?

He's got an extension to tidy up the post-go-live operational issues for his BPM tool at the Wuhan virology lab.

[Eirikur]

This was a tip that was on my LinkedIn feed from a recruiter this morning. I personally have 2-3 CVs bringing out my experience for the 2 different fields I work in. I have been told clients want CVs tailored towards the job you apply for, not a general CV.

Thoughts?

I have about 20 different versions of my CV all tailored towards, industry and role, with certain buzz words in it. It is not so much the end clients, but the agencies who require that, as clients do understand if you have done role x in finance you can do role x in utilities, but agencies are too stupid for that so I put the emphasis on the particular industry the agency is recruiting for (if known)

[ladymuck]

I have one generic CV that I will tailor to a specific role if I really want to make an effort applying for it. If I want to change the focus of my CV, say because I want to move to a slightly different area, I will research the buzz words for it and tweak the general CV to make it more amenable to the target. Quite often, the skills are the same but the language is slightly different. If you're aiming for a completely different industry or skill set, then the tweaking is harder to achieve but not impossible - you have to play up the similarities more.

[Paralytic]

I have one generic CV that I will tailor to a specific role if I really want to make an effort applying for it. If I want to change the focus of my CV, say because I want to move to a slightly different area, I will research the buzz words for it and tweak the general CV to make it more amenable to the target. Quite often, the skills are the same but the language is slightly different. If you're aiming for a completely different industry or skill set, then the tweaking is harder to achieve but not impossible - you have to play up the similarities more.

I've also found it useful to ensure that key words/phrases from the role description are included in the relevant part of the CV.

[jamesbrown]

He's got an extension to tidy up the post-go-live operational issues for his BPM tool at the Wuhan virology lab.

He's just PMing some of the low priority tickets in the backlog, like the issue with the fridge repairs schema.

[LondonManc]

This was a tip that was on my LinkedIn feed from a recruiter this morning. I personally have 2-3 CVs bringing out my experience for the 2 different fields I work in. I have been told clients want CVs tailored towards the job you apply for, not a general CV.

Thoughts?

I have two main cvs - one that's a generic 3-page summary aimed at jobs/gigs that I'd rather do.
I also have one that's a 6-page master cv with everything I've done that can be hacked down and tweaked into whatever version fits a role description best.