Brilliant Cv : What Employers Want to See & How to Say It

by Jim; Earl Joanne Bright

Brilliant CV How do you get your CV to the top of the pile? When you apply for a job, your CV is compared to hundreds of others. You've only got the time it takes the recruiter to scan the pages to show how brilliant you are. How do you impress them when you don't know what employers are actually looking for? This book tells you what they want to read - and how to write it. This bestselling guide is the only CV book based on research among employers and recruiters, revealing what they look for and how the recruitment industry operates. Here, Jim Bright and Joanne Earl share the secrets of writing CVs that make the shortlist. The book will show how to put together a brilliant CV from scratch how to revamp an existing CV to make it brilliant examples and explanations of CVs that employers love and those they loathe how to address tricky CV questions And new to this edition, discover how to show you meet the selection criteria for the job in your CV. Find out what works in the real world and learn how to put it into practice through examples, exercises, samples and templates. Brilliant CV - Don't be Good, be Brilliant

Genres: Nonfiction

Paperback

First published March 1, 2005

Reviews

[Atheer Naeem · Rating 2 out of 5]

it feels like it's filled with repeated information over and over. overall it's nice and i think after i did my CV i need to reread some parts just to make sure it's as great as they let me imagine my CV would.

[Holly · Rating 4 out of 5]

I needed to update my CV, as I was told it was 'too passive' and didn't paint me as someone who achieves things. So, I decided to consult this book that I'd bought from a charity shop a year or so ago. Considering that this edition was published in 2008, I knew it was never going to be up to date when reading it in 2017; however it did contain a wealth of valuable information to help me update my CV.

Thanks to this book, my CV is now more impressive looking and easier to read (so I've been told). I've made sure to use positive language to emphasise my achievements, skills and knowledge. I think (and again, have been told by those who I've asked to read the new document) that it's made quite the drastic improvement.

Some of the information is dated, however a lot of it is still relevant to today's job market. Just take it with a pinch of salt.