CV advice, please can anyone help?

jobbingmusician

If you have an accident, you can have a no fault accident. But if he's reversed into a bollard this is unlikely to be true, as they don't very often jump out behind you

katies_mum

But this hasn`t affected his licence, so his licence is clean or am I missing the point? should we not say clean licence. I assumed as his licence is point free then its clean. Please tell me if I`m understanding this wrong.
Thanks

Aryndeneth

My advice would be to cut down the profile to something like "Anexperienced, hardworking, reliable and adaptable driver with 19 yearsexperience of driving in a multi drop and multi collection role. Able to work flexibly to accommodatenecessary hours and shift-patterns as required" Profiles are only meant to grab the attention to read the rest of the CV. The rest of the info in the profile is just duplication of what's in the skills/experience section so isn't needed.

Ignore the bollard stuff, just say "Full clean driving licence" If there's no points on the licence and no accidents that involved any kind or action from his employers, it's not necessary to add anything extra. A CV's purpose is to get you an inteview, not act as a confessional.

If you're moving onto the cover letter, have a look at this http://www.careers.manchester.ac.uk/media/services/careersandemployabilitydivision/careersservice/crcpublications/startingpointseriesofhandouts/a4/Write-a-Great-Covering-Letter-from-scratch.pdf

http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/coveringletters.htm

Aimed at students but the basics are the same.

Remember that a cover letter shouldn't repeat the CV but can highlight key parts i.e. From my CV you will see I have 19 years / relevant experience in / necessary skills etc etc and then the employer can look at the CV if they need the full details of that.

It's also for getting across the things that are hard to get into a CV like motivation and enthusiam "I want this job because... I want to work for you because... My skills and experience match what you're looking for because..."

This is the hard part you're doing now, getting it all down on paper. Once that's done, you can just tailor it it to make sure it's meeting the different requirements that each different vacancy might ask for.

Aryndeneth

katies_mum wrote: »

Aryndeneth, thanks any more advice when you get time would be wonderful.
shmeeko69 I have done the employment history like this:

2010 – present XXXXXX
address
2003 – 2010 (formerlyknown as) xxxx
address again
1997– 2003 (formerlyknown as) xxxxx
address again

Would it be better 1997 - present and then just list the companies?

It's possible that the way it's done at the moment might look like three different companies or different periods of employment. Your husband's employment didn't stop and start on those dates. just the name of the company changed. Show the employment as one block from... to... and put the current name of the company along with previous names.

katies_mum

Thank you Aryndeneth thats great, you do make profile sound a lot better now the waffle is taken out.

Not got as far as covering letters yet!! I need wine and vallium after attepting the CV... some great advice for when I get to that bit.

Could I ask about the employment bit.. is it better to list the companies and put the dates and previously known as...for each date or just one date and then list the 3 different companies.. I think could be either but not sure which shows continuial employment in a better way.

Does he need `interests`.. as travelling, gardening and walking the dog isn`t over exciting or eye catching? not sure about this bit.

Thank you

katies_mum

Will change the employment bit, thanks

katies_mum

Changed to:

Workhistory:
1993 – present xxxxx - the address of the depot
(formerly known as ) XXX
(formerly known as ) XXX

1970 – 1993 H.M. Forces - Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm

Is this better, just doesn`t look much to show since working from 1970!

jobbingmusician

But that's good, shows loyalty. What employers DON'T like is people who move job a lot - they will always wonder why.

I agree BTW, your OH has a clean licence if no points on it.

katies_mum

I`m sitting here feeling quite smug at what I have achieved with your help, thank you all. This time yesterday I was loosing the plot!

jobbingmusician I agree it does look better.

Final 2 questions as think we might leave off the interests bit! unless someone thinks its important.

1. He was made redundant on 4 Sept (should I be putting this in the dates of work history?) I`ve only just thought about if we need to mention this or do we leave to state 1993 - present.

2. Should we put about references on it? something like
Referee details available upon request (again I`m not sure)

Thanks again.

denla

katies_mum wrote: »

I`m sitting here feeling quite smug at what I have achieved with your help, thank you all. This time yesterday I was loosing the plot!

jobbingmusician I agree it does look better.

Final 2 questions as think we might leave off the interests bit! unless someone thinks its important.

1. He was made redundant on 4 Sept (should I be putting this in the dates of work history?) I`ve only just thought about if we need to mention this or do we leave to state 1993 - present.

2. Should we put about references on it? something like
Referee details available upon request (again I`m not sure)

Thanks again.

Put it as to 4th Sep or when checked he'll be accused of lying about being employed between 5th and to date. Best not have the future employers thinking this person is dishonest.