RecruitIreland.com now has psychic advertisers! Yes it’s true, they can tell what your name is and your contact phone number by the power of psychic ability…. You may laugh but this must truly be the belief of many jobseekers.
I have complained in the past of unnecessary misspellings on CVs but this week I’m even more astounded by the number of CVs with absolutely no identifying features at all, (and sexybexy999@myemail.com does not count as a contact name).
I have just uploaded a CV from a candidate which had no name, phone number or general area of address on it. If you read to the bottom you could see that this person had previously worked in the Galway area. The CV did however contain the person’s marital status and age, both details you don’t necessarily have to give on your CV.
With the unemployment rate nearing 12% throwing out an enormous pool of well educated, skilled and experienced workers, finding a job at the moment is tough enough so start your job search on the right foot and make sure you have the most basic things on your CV. Keep in mind that someone else will have taken more time and effort to create their CV and that person will get the job you want. It is as simple as that.
The net has a glut of information and we have some brilliant CV writing articles from experts such as Paul Mullan on our career centre to peruse. Start your job search on the right foot, attention to detail is key and without it basic errors will just secure your CV a firm place in the employers bin.