27th July 2013, 12:06 PM
I'd concur, I've not bothered maintaining what any potential employer would recognise as a proper CV since sometime in the '80s, once I realised that people were either phoning me up or that it just seemed to appear from nowhere (i.e. luck). The trick is just to get your foot in the door in the first place and become known as someone worth employing. When we need a crew around here we just phone up the usual suspects padded out with people that we've heard are any good, so all a bit word-of-mouth. People who are known to be good site staff (and that's the trick, being known) get the jobs. Qualifications, IFA membership etc are irrelevent. I've worked with plenty of PhDs/MIFAs/whatever who, if the world worked properly, would have had restraining orders taken out against them preventing them going anywhere within 100m of a trowel/shovel/site