Here's the bare bones... I'm thinking I should try and squeeze everything onto one side of A4 as I am young and inexperienced; taking up two sides is just greedy and boastful at my age/career level.
Hints and tips away, people...
Nick Southall
A creative graduate with experience of full-time work seeking to further his career.
Upper Second Class Honours Degree
Media & Popular Cultural Studies with Philosophy, University College Northampton, 2001 blah blah wiffle wiffle piff piff
Exeter University Library
Library Assistant, Audio/Visual Department, September 2002-present blah blah wiffle wiffle piff piff
Stylus Magazine
UK Deputy Editor of this respected independent music website blah blah wiffle wiffle piff piff
The Ship At Cockwood
Much-loved barman at this busy country pub, 1997-2002 blah blah wiffle wiffle piff piff
Teignmouth Community College
A grade ‘A’ Level in English, ‘AS’ Levels in Politics and General Studies, 9 GCSEs at grades A-D including A’s for English Language, Literature and Drama. Nick was also elected Principal Student during the sixth form and served as the student representative on the board of governors.
Personal and Contact Information
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)
Obviously transpose this to ILE and make mention of my intense attention to detail.
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)
do your own dirty work man
(alternative answer: can someone do mine as well?)
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)
the single page vs 2 page thing is a real quandary for me. at the mo i only have 1.5 pages which looks bad.
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)
naaah, just increase the point size and fiddle with titles/fonts/spacing til it fits two pages - squeeze it down to one page and you risk overcrowding.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)
CVs are fucking bullshit anyway - do I want to work for someone who's going to scrutinise my CV that much? yes no maybe.
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)
Well - I think you need two pages, as it's missing quite a lot. You need:
- area(s) of working in which you are seeking employment
- what skills you've acquired/training undergone to help you with that
- your main interests in the area of librarianship and where you've pushed the envelope
- what IT skills you have/ experience of using software
- personal skills you have demonstrated, teamwork skills you've demonstrated, organisational skills you've demonstrated
- more work experience (maybe something voluntary/short-term placement you've done?
- if no more work experience, build up a travel section
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)
Work experience? Travel section? I've never been anywhere or done anything apart from write about musicm and skim stones across ponds!
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 07:45 (twenty-two years ago)
In that case I think the single page / large font-size approach might be best....
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)
If they can't tell I'm great just by my name what fuckign chance have they got, eh?
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)