CV writing services - worth it?

Smodlet

TyreLever wrote: »

That's because his English is irritating gibberish. Apparently they still teach his work in schools (I rarely went to school), which is absolutely ridiculous considering there is no relevance for it today. If I could go back in time, I would probably trip over Hitler and shoot Shakespeare. The man was a knob.

How very unhelpful to the OP. Cue another derailment.

illusionek

I am Eastern European indeed and despite living in the UK for a while and even getting a degree Ive never mastered articles! Having said that I think it's not my grammar that stops me from getting interviews otherwise I would most likely hear about it by now.

Smodlet

illusionek wrote: »

I am Eastern European indeed and despite living in the UK for a while and even getting a degree Ive never mastered articles! Having said that I think it's not my grammar that stops me from getting interviews otherwise I would most likely hear about it by now.

As you wish. If I can tell from a couple of sentences...

jobbingmusician

Yes, I do wonder how you think you would know. English people have real problems being upfront about telling people their weaknesses!

Hoogle

First of all many libraries have job clubs as part of that they usually have cv writinghelp but usually at a basic level.

Depending what kind of work your looking for you I have seen many creative ideas out there.

I was watching something on youtube the other day and they brought up CVS and the ones that are more successful are the 1s that have a photo on and only 1-2 pages long with no filler content.

If you go to the library you should check out the careers section and see if they have a CV Writing book. There are plenty of templates online for free, even in microsoft word they have free templates.

illusionek

Please dont get me wrong I am open to critique I fully appreciate there must be an issue somewhere otherwise I wouldnt be starting this post.

I said I would know because one of the recruiters would say in the past I have to correct grammar mistakes otherwise he/she wouldnt submit my CV to client. Whilst I struggle to change jobs now, I did change successfully in the past. Also free CV review services rated my grammar 8/10.

Smodlet

illusionek wrote: »

Please dont get me wrong I am open to critique I fully appreciate there must be an issue somewhere otherwise I wouldnt be starting this post.

I said I would know because one of the recruiters would say in the past I have to correct grammar mistakes otherwise he/she wouldnt submit my CV to client. Whilst I struggle to change jobs now, I did change successfully in the past. Also free CV review services rated my grammar 8/10.

You get what you pay for.

Anita_Hessler

I want to complete my bachelor's in abroad, applying for abroad university academic CV is very important, suggest to me how to write a perfect CV.

bartelbe

I would be wary, my writing skills are pretty weak. Put it this way, I will probably make an error in this short post. So when I was unemployed I had a few of these services look over my CV.

To be fair they were ones the Jobcentre referred me to but even so, I was shocked at how poor they were.

Naively I assumed that the CV they produced for me would be error free, so I fired it off to a few potential employers. Then I had a closer look.

It was riddled with errors. Incorrect tenses, poor formatting and even incomplete sentences. It was an utter joke and actually worse than the one I had produced.