• Visitors can check out the Forum FAQ by clicking this link. You have to register before you can post: click the REGISTER link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. View our Forum Privacy Policy.
  • Want to receive the latest contracting news and advice straight to your inbox? Sign up to the ContractorUK newsletter here. Every sign up will also be entered into a draw to WIN £100 Amazon vouchers!

CV sadvice on CUK

Collapse
X
  •  
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

    #31
    [QUOTE=sasguru;1050462]As someone on the receiving end of CVs [B][QUOTE]

    Oh you work in the post room???? Hence you have enough time to post 16K posts
    Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

    Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

    Comment


      #32
      Well 9 years experience on that cv and couldn't do a (very) simple test. If you're going to make up your skills on a cv why bother going to 9 pages worth ... sheesh ...

      Comment


        #33
        [QUOTE=BlackenedBiker;1050486][QUOTE=sasguru;1050462]As someone on the receiving end of CVs [B]

        Oh you work in the post room???? Hence you have enough time to post 16K posts
        Yes I work in the post room and post on CUK all day.
        And I'm still considerably richer than thou, loser
        Hard Brexit now!
        #prayfornodeal

        Comment


          #34
          Originally posted by Jeebo72 View Post
          Well 9 years experience on that cv and couldn't do a (very) simple test. If you're going to make up your skills on a cv why bother going to 9 pages worth ... sheesh ...
          Go on, you can't just say that, you've got to tell us the question now...
          Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
          threadeds website, and here's my blog.

          Comment


            #35
            Originally posted by threaded View Post
            Go on, you can't just say that, you've got to tell us the question now...
            It was a practical test ... a very very simple one!

            Comment


              #36
              Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
              Explaining past experience is important, I've had interviewers question me on jobs that go back 8 years.
              I've had one go back twenty years

              "Can we just go back to your time as a games programmer in the Eighties - not because it's relevant, but because it sounds REALLY cool!"

              Comment


                #37
                Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
                I've had one go back twenty years

                "Can we just go back to your time as a games programmer in the Eighties - not because it's relevant, but because it sounds REALLY cool!"
                The same!! Makes you stand out from the rest also.. 'So working for the european space agency, what the heck was that like?"
                "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

                Comment


                  #38
                  Originally posted by zeitghost
                  I was particularly impressed with one CV.

                  He apparently had 4 or 5 wordprocessors, but not one of them had a spell checker.


                  It's a niggle for me.

                  If folks don't have the time to check those sorts of errors, manor manner.. than my comment to them flags.
                  "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

                  Comment


                    #39
                    I couldn't believe it when I realised months after sending out my CV that I had put "roll" for "role".

                    Comment


                      #40
                      Originally posted by OrangeHopper View Post
                      I couldn't believe it when I realised months after sending out my CV that I had put "roll" for "role".
                      I had a spell checker alter CORBA to COBRA and then an agent took that section from my CV and used it for a fake job advert on Jobserve.

                      Oh, how you all laughed.

                      So did I until, WTF, that's a bit from my CV...

                      Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
                      threadeds website, and here's my blog.

                      Comment

                      Working...
                      X