Our CV Service
We can type up a CV to your requirements, or talk you through the process of creating a CV from scratch.

As long as you are eligible for free help from us, the whole service is free, including the printing.

We'll print out as many copies as you feel you need (within reason).   We'll also give you a copy of your CV on diskette - bring your own, or buy a new one from us at cost price.

Please telephone 01603 611550 for an appointment.

How you can help us to get started
It will help us if you bring a list of the jobs you've done in the past, with dates (year and month), job titles, and names and addresses of employers.   You'll find that if you can give us this basic framework, the other details we need will come out easily in the conversation.

If you can't remember an employer's exact address, we can sort that out in the office, using the Internet and reference books.

If you want to include a list of qualifications, that's another area where a bit of homework is needed - dates and correct names of each qualification are often difficult to remember off the cuff.   Best of all - bring the certificates!

Optional Follow Up
We run a drop-in facility for job search, training, and other constructive computer use, and you are welcome to continue receiving our help, as long as you need it.

This can include using our computers to modify your CV as often as you need to.   Experienced job hunters often alter their CVs as they go along, to reflect feedback from interviews, or to target CVs onto different types of work.

We can also help you to write covering letters, and send CVs by Email.

What makes a good CV?   -   A personal opinion from one of our CV writers
Many CVs give no idea what the person wants to do next.

A lot of the space on a CV is taken up with your "Employment History".   This is a list of all the jobs you've had, with dates, job titles, names and addresses of employers, and a summary of what you achieved in each job.   You have control over what you include in the summary.

The mistake is to include too much information which has no relevance at all to your suitability for your next job.   That makes boring reading for the employer you send it to!

Decide in advance what sort of work you want to do next, and what level of responsibility you want to carry.   Say this unambiguously at the top of the CV.

Then as you go through your employment history, ask yourself how far each thing you've done has contributed to making you the person you are now - the person who is ready to move on in the way you've said.

Whenever you find something directly relevant, state it clearly on the CV.   Reduce everything else to few words.   Don't ask the prospective employer to pick out what is important from a mountain of detail.

End result:   a CV which tells the prospective employer,   "this is what I want to do and this is why".

[ 25 March 2004 ]

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