CV checking

mzqa395

Can someone check my CV for me please? I will sent you my CV when you PM Me

StudentSaver_2

To be honest, your best bet would be to ask your Uni careers service - the professionals who are free of charge.

cazziebo

erm - I would probably not recommend careers service - usually people who go to school, go to uni, do a post grad and then - having never really held down a real job - advise people on a very narrow spectrum of jobs! sorry to sound so harsh but with two teenage daughters I'm shocked at the poor level of careers advice. ie good at science = medicine, good at english and history = law.

I've worked in HR and senior management for 20 years so happy to critique. However, bear in mind it's all subjective to some extent.

I'll PM you my contact details

Caz

TonyRandall_2

if you're at uni you're careers service should be more than just some post grads who couldn't get a real job!

but i admit the ones at schools and college can be pretty random and just suggest stupid things...

and if you're desperate for advice you could cheekily look at my uni's website which has a whole section on CV and cover letter writing...

https://www.lboro.ac.uk/student then click on careers

seaweasel

The Guardian were doing an offer with a CV service for a free assessment. Have a look on their Jobs section.

anewman

seaweasel wrote:

The Guardian were doing an offer with a CV service for a free assessment. Have a look on their Jobs section.

AFAIK there is something they charge for. My guess is they will check it, point out as many bad points as they can, then offer to write it for you superbly saying you'll be guaranteed interviews (note not a job) for £x. Best bet is career department. I have experienced variable service from careers departments but they're generally ok.

If you are a student at a university in yorkshire you can get your cv checked online using this service http://www.gycareersadvice.info/ as I understand it what you send goes to someone working within a university careers department within yorkshire and then they reply. There may be something similar for your locality, and your careers department should be able to tell you about it.

Someone could possibly start a cv checking thread for people to post the text of their CV's (minus personally identifiable info such as name, employers, schools etc) and people could reply with suggestions? Dunno if that would work or not.

dmg24

I'll happily have a look for you. You should be able to email me direct from my profile. If you can't just PM me and I'll send you my email address.

Tigger36

cazziebo wrote:

erm - I would probably not recommend careers service - usually people who go to school, go to uni, do a post grad and then - having never really held down a real job - advise people on a very narrow spectrum of jobs! sorry to sound so harsh but with two teenage daughters I'm shocked at the poor level of careers advice. ie good at science = medicine, good at english and history = law.

I've worked in HR and senior management for 20 years so happy to critique. However, bear in mind it's all subjective to some extent.

I'll PM you my contact details

Caz

Ouch - I work for nextstep doing Adult Careers. We now have many Advisers who have trained 'on the job' and are fully accredited by Matrix - the national accreditation body. So many Advisers now have years of 'employment experience' and are in a good position to give worthwhile, meaningful advice. I fully agree that this was the way the Careers Service used to be but I'm glad to say that it's all changing. I hate the way schoolchildren are placed into boxes as you state - it's not right. Hopefully this is not the future - if it is then I'm changing career!

anewman

Tigger36 wrote:

Ouch - I work for nextstep doing Adult Careers. We now have many Advisers who have trained 'on the job' and are fully accredited by Matrix - the national accreditation body.

Although diverging from the OP's post, I feel it may be interesting to detail my experience with a careers advisor. I left school without GCSE's - due to bullying. I went to the place called Connexions in leeds, in about 1996. I could not state for certain that the person I saw was a trained careers advisor, but I went and stated my interest in doing GCSE's. He read my school record (which it seems is automatically forwarded to them) and recommended against doing GCSE's based on what he had read, but recommended doing the vocational training courses the government was pushing at the time called Opex (which seems to have disappeared now.) So I ended up doing the vocational training courses. I found that they tended to be quite badly organised. The last one the NVQ assessor was off long term sick so there was noone to award me an NVQ or give guidance on what to do to work towards the qualification. It seemed like a waste of time to me so I left. I got no qualifications at the end of that. I was very depressed at this time unfortunately.

However time went on, I ended up doing GCSE maths and english part time, as these seemed prerequisites for many things. Having impressed the maths tutor, with only an english and maths GCSE was allowed to progress onto A level maths and more GCSE's. I then went on to top up my A levels to 3 and went to University to study psychology and got a first. I am currently doing a masters with 3 modules completed to date and an average grade of 74% (which I am amazed with). I would never have thought when I left school that I would go to university. I think the key to my story is never be told you shouldn't try something.