18th September 2006, 02:57 AM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Paul Belford
But 1man is right, the variability of CVs is tremendous. Some are highly irritating, some don't even spell my name correctly, some are clearly round-robin speculative exercises. These are all easy to spot and reject.
The survivors from this first round are however quite illuminating about a person's character and personality. What they have chosen to include?, what they have chosen to omit?, what order have they put it in?, do they have any sense of document layout and graphic design or are they completely cack-handed? do they have any creativity? can they spell or understand grammar? (amazingly not even in this lazy age of spell checkers)... and so-on. All such things are very revealing, and most 'facts' on a CV are easily verifiable by ringing up referees and previous employers.
I also have great fun in seeing who has the most outlandish hobby - cheese rolling, or Alpenhorn champion for example.
see how much fun employers could have reading all those different CVs which, like this guy says, shows you just how individual each team member could be!
well, the form is off now and every1 can cross thier fingers and thier toes for me and i might just get this job!!