CV Help please?

aliasojo

princessdon wrote: »

If you let us know the industry we may be able to advise more.

Thank you but the CV has been done now and he's already had an informal initial chat with the person dealing with it.

LittleVoice

westv wrote: »

You'd think so and I don't have that info on my CV but I've been surprised at how many agencies have asked me for it - even though I left school over 30 years ago!

Could you guess how many years ago those agency consultants left school?

Or were they looking for private school background? Or education in the UK rather than overseas?

westv

westv wrote: »

I've heard that recruitment agencies hate skills based CVs. No idea if that is true or not though.

LittleVoice wrote: »

Could you guess how many years ago those agency consultants left school?

Or were they looking for private school background? Or education in the UK rather than overseas?

Sorry you've confused me a bit. It should be obvious to recruiters that I left school some time ago as my first job started in 1979.

Savvy_Sue

jobbingmusician wrote: »

(By the way, your husband wants to move job in order to broaden his experience and work for this fine company B, doesn't he? )

aliasojo wrote: »

Not really, it's exactly the same job in exactly the same area.

:rotfl: you're really not in the swing of this yet, are you?

Working for a different company is always a change, and it always broadens experience. Honest. Especially if there isn't much chance of promotion / widening his experience / gaining different skills in his current job.

Doesn't matter if the new company is smaller or larger, you play on the difference to explain why you want to move. IF you're asked. It may be that the other company know fine well that his current employers aren't that great and have messed people around. Is there much moving between these companies?

LittleVoice

westv wrote: »

Sorry you've confused me a bit. It should be obvious to recruiters that I left school some time ago as my first job started in 1979.

Sorry if I confused you.

You were responding to the other poster and suggested that agencies had asked you where you went to school and that you had left school 30 years ago and were therefore surprised to be asked that.

I was wondering whether the people who were asking you either were actually themselves relatively young and so school was closer in time to them or that they were possibly about to discriminate on the grounds of a person's perceived social class or country of origin.

westv

LittleVoice wrote: »

Sorry if I confused you.

You were responding to the other poster and suggested that agencies had asked you where you went to school and that you had left school 30 years ago and were therefore surprised to be asked that.

I was wondering whether the people who were asking you either were actually themselves relatively young and so school was closer in time to them or that they were possibly about to discriminate on the grounds of a person's perceived social class or country of origin.

Ah, I see. I was just told by the agencies that "sometimes we're asked so we like to ask for details from candidates".