Online job sites and a quick and easy CV creator

dori2o

Does anyone use these job sites where you upload your CV to them?

Are they any good, or a complete waste of time, which are the best ones? I'm looking for a job as a sheet metal worker (aerospace experience), or in customer services, or maybe something completely different.

Secondly, can anyone suggest a simple but effective and free CV creator I can use online and save my CV to print off, send via email when required.

I had a great CV done for me when I left one of my previous employers, but now I've lost the damn disk.

dori2o

can anyone offer any advice on this, thanks

msflowerfairy

I have mine uploaded on Monster, and becuase i am a trained Facilities Manager i have also uploaded my C.V to a specialised recruitment agencies. Perhaps you could google agencies that deal with aerospace and sheet work?
I think they are all much of a muchness to be honest.

Kirsty._4

The CV creator at reed.co.uk is quite good.
You can also tweak it afterwards to make it more personnal as it creates your CV as a word document.

Hope this helps
Kirsty.

vixarooni

I have used monster but i dont find it that brill i must say. Its good to look at jobs once in awhile as it often throws up something different that the local paper doesnt but overall i dont think theyre as fab and easy as they make out!

msflowerfairy

I had one call as a result of my C.V being on Monster. The recruitment agency and the job was in London, and i live in the south wales valleys?!?
I have applied for over a 100 jobs, since November, and have received hardly any replies, thanks but no thanks emails, or you are over qualified Grrrr.

Why can't i decide if i am over qualified, and not some recruitment agency? I want to work, i am prepared to work long and unsociable hours if need be, but nope i am over qualified.

xbabydevilx

http://careersadvice.direct.gov.uk/helpwithyourcareer/writecv/

piggeh

The trick with monster and other sites where you upload your cv, is to update on a regular basis. Essentially what I've been told, is that those CVs which have recently been updated, normally appear at the top of any results for recruiters. Therefore I keep mine updated every week to ensure it remains near the top.

Also fwiw - I received quite a lot of calls by doing this back in June. Not so many calls this time round, although I did get a call this evening from someone that saw it on monster.

DCFC79

I did use monster but the jobs it was suggesting werent anything like what i was after, jobsite is good, reed is good, total jobs is ok

loopy_lass

msflowerfairy wrote: »

I had one call as a result of my C.V being on Monster. The recruitment agency and the job was in London, and i live in the south wales valleys?!?
I have applied for over a 100 jobs, since November, and have received hardly any replies, thanks but no thanks emails, or you are over qualified Grrrr.

Why can't i decide if i am over qualified, and not some recruitment agency? I want to work, i am prepared to work long and unsociable hours if need be, but nope i am over qualified.

can i respectfully suggest that you only put on qualis relevant to post applied for, leaving off any others. That way you are not over qualified, if sucessful once in post if necessary perhaps say oh silly me i forgot to put this or that quali on my cv.... blinking computers!!! lol....

loops