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richpoortyke

saxonrosecliff wrote: »

Its interview day today at 10am. Its a job that I only applied for to make up the numbers for the job centre so I've got no idea why they picked me for interview. I'm not the calmest person in the world and now not only am I panicing about the interview I'm panicing about if I get the job and I can't do it! (I must learn to calm down!!!).

Sounds a bit like the interviews and replies im getting. The basic admin jobs i apply for i know i could do without too much difficulty i never get a response yet the more technical difficult jobs i seem to get replies to. Then i wonder why they picked me for interview. Am i just there to make up the numbers?

asparagusnextleft

DCFC79 wrote: »

Saw a job in local paper yesterday that i liked and got to the bottom of the ad and its for surrey, why is a job for surrey in the local paper hundreds of miles away,

Maybe Norman Tebbitt's modern day equivalent is about to tell us to 'get on our bikes'!

loops87

saxonrosecliff wrote: »

Its interview day today at 10am. Its a job that I only applied for to make up the numbers for the job centre so I've got no idea why they picked me for interview. I'm not the calmest person in the world and now not only am I panicing about the interview I'm panicing about if I get the job and I can't do it! (I must learn to calm down!!!).

Too late to say good luck but I hope it went well!

loops87

morizot wrote: »

I tailored my cv following some free comments from a cv writer website to make it shorter and sleeker. Since then my phone has become silent. Think I will go back to my long winded rambling cv:rotfl:

I've just done the opposite. I had a very basic CV with basically nothing on it, just a list of jobs really without even saying what skills I showed in each one. It was a bit rubbish because I thought if I did a basic skeleton CV then I could just send it out everywhere without changing it and do a good covering letter for each one but it was basically just rubbish. Have just edited it so it is 'long winded and rambling' as you say but now it is 3 pages long! is that way too long? (I've had 5 jobs).

Firefly_777

Well I've had a pretty bad day today

I was supposed to be going to my prison visit today at 9am. I got up at 5.30am, starting walking to the bus stop at 6am, got to the bus stop at 7am then I found out it wasn't the right bus stop and that the right bus was 15 mins down the road (*bangs head against wall*). Missed the bus (the bus was at 7.02am). So it would have taken 1 hr 45 mins (includes bus journey) and that excludes the waiting about afterwards. The most unforgiving timetable too (the next bus would have got me in 30 mins late). I couldn't even have a rant at my boyfriend on the way home, as I had to leave to mobile at home as your not allowed them within prison boundaries.

So looks like I will be rejecting the interview and my feet agree (ouch!)x

asparagusnextleft

loops87 wrote: »

I've just done the opposite. I had a very basic CV with basically nothing on it, just a list of jobs really without even saying what skills I showed in each one. It was a bit rubbish because I thought if I did a basic skeleton CV then I could just send it out everywhere without changing it and do a good covering letter for each one but it was basically just rubbish. Have just edited it so it is 'long winded and rambling' as you say but now it is 3 pages long! is that way too long? (I've had 5 jobs).

As far as I know a CV is not supposed to be more than two pages long. I could easily manage three but I've condensed it into two.

Strike

loops87 wrote: »

I've just done the opposite. I had a very basic CV with basically nothing on it, just a list of jobs really without even saying what skills I showed in each one. It was a bit rubbish because I thought if I did a basic skeleton CV then I could just send it out everywhere without changing it and do a good covering letter for each one but it was basically just rubbish. Have just edited it so it is 'long winded and rambling' as you say but now it is 3 pages long! is that way too long? (I've had 5 jobs).

Ideally it should be no more then 2 pages long. For some of your older jobs you could look at condensing them as the poster above mentions or remove them completely if they are not relevant to the role you are applying for and add additional info to your skills section.

I overhauled mine the last few days as it was very bland and looked so generic. I have been using http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv.htm#is for guidance and is user friendly :T

DCFC79

asparagusnextleft wrote: »

As far as I know a CV is not supposed to be more than two pages long. I could easily manage three but I've condensed it into two.

general consensus is 2 pages is the max, might be instances where more than 2 is accepted

saxonrosecliff

I've got no idea what's happening with my computer. I read all the posts and posted my post below and when I posted it another page of posts mysteriously appeared from nowhere!

I'm back from my interview. I now know why they picked me for an interview. I did my research on their website and it said they were an estate agency specialising in rural properties. I turned up at the interview today to be told that although they still have the same name they are in the process of separating from the estate agency side and will be a small company of agricultural auctioneers and I worked for an auctioneers when I left school (I'm 45 years old so you can see how long ago it was) and they recognised the name of the company I worked for. It was a strange and very relaxed interview as most of it was chatting about the "good old days" when they were a competitor to the company that I worked for but chatting I can do - its interviews I'm not very good at so I think it went well. They are only interviewing three people including me so fingers (and everything else) crossed as I've now gone from not wanting the job this morning to wanting it!

saxonrosecliff

loops87 wrote: »

I've just done the opposite. I had a very basic CV with basically nothing on it, just a list of jobs really without even saying what skills I showed in each one. It was a bit rubbish because I thought if I did a basic skeleton CV then I could just send it out everywhere without changing it and do a good covering letter for each one but it was basically just rubbish. Have just edited it so it is 'long winded and rambling' as you say but now it is 3 pages long! is that way too long? (I've had 5 jobs).

I used to work in HR as an Admin Assistant and the HR Advisors that I worked would said to be to definitely keep your CV to two sides of A4 even if it is a bit squashed. With recruiters getting so many applications for jobs they just don't have time to read CVs that are longer than two pages. CVs of more than two pages were excluded first where I worked and were only read if there were not enough suitable applicants in what was left.