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Used to be a club in London that had that. The best one was in Aberdeen that had little video screens in the urinals which had pictures of people so you could widdle on their faces. It wasn't uncommon to see a few mother in laws there...“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.” -
First page: Personal - i.e. name, where resident (no address), telephone/fax/mobile/e-mail, work location and miscellaneous (I have professional certifications and titles I have authored)
Second page: Profile Summary - a one page summary of what I do and know including a selection of software/OS'es/applications that I know with years of experience
Third page up until page eight - summary of all jobs and contracts held with details of software used, tasks and for what type of company and where (no company names) getting progressively smaller as the years go back
Seems to work for me in 9/10 cases (and don't forget many agencies will just pull the relevant information out and put into their template)“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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