Business Analyst CV Format

Strider590

InsideInsurance wrote: »

Education is broadly irrelevant on an experienced person's CV

To an employer yes, but go to an agency without the masters degree in sports science or media studies and they'll put up a brick wall to your career.

You have to remember they're mostly run by 20 something year old graduates, who have no concept of the value of experience, no way to quantify it and no way to determine it's validity.

To them the job is all about ticking boxes, does this person fill all these boxes? and as an engineer, if one of those boxes is "knows how to use a spanner" and I don't mention spanners in my CV, then I ain't gonna get the job.

choyaa

So work history before education?

Also do I need to include my A levels when I have a degree?

InsideInsurance

Strider590 wrote: »

To an employer yes, but go to an agency without the masters degree in sports science or media studies and they'll put up a brick wall to your career.

You have to remember they're mostly run by 20 something year old graduates, who have no concept of the value of experience, no way to quantify it and no way to determine it's validity.

To them the job is all about ticking boxes, does this person fill all these boxes? and as an engineer, if one of those boxes is "knows how to use a spanner" and I don't mention spanners in my CV, then I ain't gonna get the job.

Agree there is a lot of box ticking however even the most dim witted agent can guess that if someone has 20 years experience of doing X and someone is wanting to recruit for doing X then your a match with or without a degree.

Similarly as an employer I dont state that I want a degree but that I want 5 years experience of doing X and so any "degree requirement" would be of the agents creating not mine

Strider590

InsideInsurance wrote: »

any "degree requirement" would be of the agents creating not mine

I think that happens a lot!

Last place I worked (tier 1 automotive electronics manufacturer), we needed technicians and engineers to handle various roles in the company, we went through an agency and all we got was over qualified idiots, people who could talk for England and could very easily get the job IF they weren't being interviewed by two highly experience engineers.


After 6 months we had to resort to ads in local papers, some of the applicants and also the guy that actually got the job, had all tried to apply through the agency (and got nowhere) before seeing the direct ad.