A candidate before calling the employer to set up and interview

[Joywtome231]

While we are talking about what is in your CV, it may be worth going into a little more detail about this.

I still see some CVs with pretty outdated formats and phraseology. For example, I have seen a heading entitled ‘Career Objective’ just this week, ‘references available on request’ and any number of stock CV clichés that describe ‘hard working’ – ‘team payers’, and I just don’t think these terms are going to fly when they hit the filters of ATS. Think ‘Digital Confetti’!

There are other giveaways that your CV has not been updated for a while, or that belarus phone number library this person has been writing CVs since the early eighties. It is time to bring your CV up to date!

Embracing Technology


I remember the days of checking the suitability of back in my Job Centre days. OK, who just called me a Dinosaur?!

Job Seekers miss those days, even as recently as 2007 / 2008, I remember a guy telling me that he couldn’t apply for this job he’d seen because he didn’t have a CV!! 'Could you not just ring them and arrange an interview?' Excuse me for a moment whilst I dab the tears from my eyes..

OK, things were different then perhaps, but if we want to succeed, we have to move with the times and it is no good saying ‘but I preferred it when…’ It just isn’t like that anymore.

The way into your next role is by having a dazzlingly crisp, keyword-rich CV [It is time to accept the fact that Robots are now reviewing your CV, we have already mentioned ATS], and by having a fully optimised Linkedin profile, and making maximum use of the tools within Linkedin.