Reply to: Personal info on CV's

[HairyArsedBloke]

OK, here is the plan.

1. Get one or more of these 0906 numbers at £1.50 per min. Set it so it points to a pre-paid phone set to voice mail with a long introduction message.
   
2. Create a number fake CV’s with all the popular skills and put them up on the Job boards.
   
3. Wait for the cash to roll in. There is bound to be some stupid or desperate agent or resourcer who will dial the number.

I might give this a go. I’m not a contractor anymore so it’ll be a nice bit of payback for all those times that agents messed me around.

[ratewhore]

Actually, this idea looks even more viable:

"0906 premium rate numbers..."
Premium rate numbers are numbers that begin with 0906. They can be used to raise revenue from callers telephoning your 0906 number. You can set the amount to charge the caller from £0.15p per minute to £1.50p per minute. Charging callers to call your premium rate number allows you to sell services via the telephone. Your charge to the caller is collected via their telephone bill and passed over to us, we in turn pass a large share of this money raised to you in the form of call revenue each month.

"Premium Rate Telephone Services..."
Premium Rate Telephone Services are to be found everywhere now as more and more companies realise the potential of using an 0906 premium rate telephone number. They are used to charge customers for telephone support to supplying mobile phone ring tones and logos. Their effectiveness is second to nothing else when used for the right reason as it removes the hassle of billing the customer direct and collecting money from the customer. No matter how many customers call your premium rate number you'll be paid by one company. Premium rate numbers can open up totally new oportunities for your business to earn money from supplying services that previously you thought impossible.

"0906 Numbers are free!"
0906 Premium Rate Numbers are free to obtain and do not cost to maintain them and you will earn upto £1.00p per minute call revenue from them.

Suddenly, long winded conversations with pimps don't seem too bad...

[Addanc]

I thought company regs meant that registered company address and number had to be included on company correspondence

Registered address yes; phone number no. A company is not required even to have a phone.

Where the feck does the original comment say phone number? Doh!

[swamp]

Many roles on Jobserve are just a repeated, rolling fiction that agents place to harvest CVs so they can fill the real roles. In other words the real contracts are never really advertised, and unless you upload your CV you're unlikely to hear about them.

[Fred Bloggs]

I leave my address off and there is no reference to age, marital status. religion or ethnicity. Nothing appears on my CV earlier than 1990 so it is impossible to tell my age. Yes, you may have guessed, I'm an older guy. As a freelance/consulting Mechanical Engineer I strongly feel that my age is totally irrelevant. I rarely do a job more than 8 or 9 months in duration. My CV has land line and mobile numbers and an email address/business website address. I get a few nuisance/pimping calls but no more than is tolerable and I end the fishing "just updating our records" calls courteously but promptly. I regard my CV as a "personal" rather than a business document.

[Sockpuppet]

I thought company regs meant that registered company address and number had to be included on company correspondence; does this extend to company marketing documentation?

Depends if you classify the CV as a company document. You could claim that it is a personal document you just then directed the services to your employer.

[SueEllen]

I thought company regs meant that registered company address and number had to be included on company correspondence; does this extend to company marketing documentation?

http://www.consultancymarketing.co.u...s-act-2006.htm

"These requirements apply to all company documents whether the document is in hard copy or electronic or any other form."

"So, in a nutshell, if you are a limited company you need to include your company registration number, place of registration and registered office address on all your email footers, order forms and websites, in legible characters."

I would include the company's premium rate phone number as well as nothing annoys clients/customers more if they can't contact you quickly.

[expat]

I thought company regs meant that registered company address and number had to be included on company correspondence; does this extend to company marketing documentation?

Registered address yes; phone number no. A company is not required even to have a phone.

[Addanc]

I thought company regs meant that registered company address and number had to be included on company correspondence; does this extend to company marketing documentation?

[expat]

I used to use a YAC number but now there's some silly announcement that seems to put quite a few pimps off connecting the call.

Me too. A Skype In number does the job now, forwarded to my mbile. If it starts getting spammed I'll drop the Skype In number.

Minor snag is that it now costs me to forward outside UK, though happily only at Skype rates.

I did have a problem once, where I suspect an agent had sold my number. I was getting spam (mostly silent) on my roaming mobile......

[Devlin]

I used to use a YAC number but now there's some silly announcement that seems to put quite a few pimps off connecting the call..

I use another prepay "pimp" phone for CVs that are sent to agents/job boards and only have it on when I'm looking - I just check messages occasionally while not.

[moorfield]

I have a separate mobile number on my cv which goes straight to voicemail, check any messages over lunch or on my way home.

[ladymuck]

I've never had a problem with getting irrelevant phone calls in response to the publicly available information on my CV, in fact I've more often than not ended up being found and contacted precisely because the information is available. I get probably one call every six months from an agent trying to sell me a permie job and all other calls tend to be relevant to what I would usually look for. I always deactivate my CV when I start a new gig and then update/reactivate about a month before it ends.

[miffy]

Of course, if you do go the scattergun approach, make sure you have a premium rate number first...

Now theres an idea... maybe the pimps could also subscribe to your availability via text message. **

** Text STOP to end communications. Updates cost £4.50 per week.

[ratewhore]

My recommendation is not to try the scattergun approach to getting work. It smacks of desparation if you're uploading your CV onto a job board and is bound to invite as many unwanted calls for irrelevant permie jobs or contracts that are not of your skillset as it will attract the odd few extra relevant ones.

You should decide what roles interest you, ascertain the rates, location, terms and then apply for them directly.

Think quality, not quantity.

Of course, if you do go the scattergun approach, make sure you have a premium rate number first...