CV help needed

AutumnMist

penelopedee wrote: »

At the top of your CV put a couple of good, promoting (boasting) sentences about yourself and your work skills, rough example:

A fully qualified secretary with extensive experience in customer care and telesales.... Extensive use of computers and office equipment. Confident with .... blah blah blah

I'm trying to get away from secretarial work to be honest. Yes I did it for a good few years but there was no real job satisfaction with it. I really enjoyed the sales job I had, it was the best job ever, so that's the direction I'm looking to move my career in. Thing is I don't have loads of experience to put in one of these boasting opening lines.

Beechleigh

penelopedee wrote: »

Extensive retail experience within an electrical store, involving stock monitoring and replenishment, also product display and merchandising.

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Busy and varied sales role for a website design agency, via telesales and face to face. Generating new customers and maintaining effective relationships with established customers. Achieving sales targets and promoting the company.

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General administrative role providing support to the .................. department/team, with specific responsibility for purchase order/delivery note approval. Regular use of computer packages and office equipment.

Would it be a good idea to list more tasks done under each of these sort of headings? Or do you have to put all the tasks like what has been posted in the 3 parts above? If tasks were listed in bullet points under, would this be seen as repeating yourself?

Daz2009

Sorry to butt in on this thread but what would the advice be if you have a gap of say 3 years between jobs where you were officially unemployed but were...shall we say,working in the black economy,theoretically
How would you explain this ?

Beechleigh

Daz2009 wrote: »

Sorry to butt in on this thread but what would the advice be if you have a gap of say 3 years between jobs where you were officially unemployed but were...shall we say,working in the black economy,theoretically
How would you explain this ?

Suppose you'd just have to say you were unemployed for that time. Unless the employer could give you a reference? Or would the new employer know to look at your tax stuff that you hadn't been paying tax, so not officially employed.

Beechleigh

Beechleigh wrote: »

Would it be a good idea to list more tasks done under each of these sort of headings? Or do you have to put all the tasks like what has been posted in the 3 parts above? If tasks were listed in bullet points under, would this be seen as repeating yourself?

Any thoughts?