Merseyside employers are enraging me!

looby75

miduck wrote: »

That is nonsense - I have never heard of someone being sanctioned for this reason, but I have seen it used as a successful way of standing out.

well I can only tell you what the advisor said on the course. Even when the person who suggested it clarified he didn't mean overly bright colours just something a bit different than plain white, we were told it was a definite no-no and could result in a sanction.

MissSarah1972

miduck wrote: »

No problem, now how are you getting on with your cv?

How am I getting on with it? Sorry?

miduck

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

What about me as an individual? What do you suggest?

I can't tell you what to write, I don't know you. Demonstrate your abilities through your achievements and your interests, not through some standard phrases.

MissSarah1972

miduck wrote: »

I can't tell you what to write, I don't know you. Demonstrate your abilities through your achievements and your interests, not through some standard phrases.

Yes I have a CV thanks with achievments under each role like I have said and interests out side of work and what I liked about each job and what I learnt in each role.

notanewuser

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

What's your background then?


I can't really print my CV on any paper if it's an online application. All online applciations have to be 'opened' at the other end and I can not make them do that.

I'm currently SE as a management consultant. Prior to that I was head of recruitment, training and workforce planning for a large hotel chain, having worked myself up from waiting staff in my teens, to admin and management in my 20s and then senior management at head office. You name it, I've done it. Accounts, HR, front of house.......

miduck

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

Yes I have a CV thanks with achievments under each role like I have said and interests out side of work and what I liked about each job and what I learnt in each role.

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

Yes all of that is on my CV and whiteboard and cover letter

'
An adaptable and established computer literate team player specialising in Purchase Ledger with experience also in Payroll. I am used to working in a high volume environment(1500-2000 P/L invoices a month), able to work to deadlines and can prioritise my own workload. Willing to share knowledge with others and not scared of change'

my profile from my cv

I have achievements under each job too

As I explained with regard to the above - it is all very generic. Try to make it more individual, present your information differently.

notanewuser

looby75 wrote: »

At a course (run by the job centre) I was on a while back someone suggested the different coloured paper as a way of making your CV stand out and the advisor running the course said that if you did that they could refer you for a sanction as it would be considered as a way of trying to get employers NOT to take you seriously.

Absolute rot.

MissSarah1972

notanewuser wrote: »

Absolute rot.

So you are saying if I send in the post a CV on pink paper and in a yellow envelope I will be taken seriously!? I know I'd throw it in the bin at my last job if I got that and besides someone is still to tell us all on Monster, Reed GAAPweb etc how do you get your CV on coloured paper?

looby75

notanewuser wrote: »

Absolute rot.

as I've already said I am only repeating what we were told.

notanewuser

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

So you are saying if I send in the post a CV on pink paper and in a yellow envelope I will be taken seriously!? I know I'd throw it in the bin at my last job if I got that and besides someone is still to tell us all on Monster, Reed GAAPweb etc how do you get your CV on coloured paper?

No darling, white envelope with CV folded neatly into 3, on ever-so-slightly-not-white paper. That's all.

Don't know how the web upload thing works. Is it open file format?