Posts Tagged ‘CV’
Friday, March 5th, 2010
The Application
Applying for the right job is paramount in this day and age. It is an employer’s market right now so your application success depends on a variety of moves.
A few tips to point you in the right direction!
The Application
- Make sure you quote the job reference yes, but more importantly the Job Title!
- Read the Job Spec. It is imperative you are qualified to do the job - whether educationally or years experience. Some people require both! Most importantly, if you can’t do the job don’t apply for it! It really won’t be the right job for you.
- The questions. Answer the questions given at the end of the job before you click send. It saves a lot of time so be nice to the kind people receiving your application?
The Cover Sheet/ Email:
- Let the person receiving your mail know why you are applying. They really do read it, so give a small synopsis of yourself right and your working experience.
The CV
- If you are happy with it, attach it!
The Send Button
- Does exactly what it says on the tin!
Tags: application, application tips, Applying for jobs, CV, employer, job applications, job specs, Jobs, recruitment, right job, sending CVs, work, Work Experience
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
Take the time to format your CV in an accessable format.
Word is the word when applying for a job, particularly to a recruitment agency your opening shot is with your CV and the worst thing you can do is send a CV in a format that cannot be edited easily such as Pdf. Whats the difference I hear you say?
Well for a start all CV’s received by agencies (and some direct hiring companies require CV’s to be presented in a particular fashion that has to be done swiftly.
As the majority of agencies use MS Office and in particular MS Word, it means having to convert CV’s to a completely different format. But that should’nt take long you say. You’re absolutely right but tell that to the recruiter who is under pressure and has a hundred CV’s to review before lunch and edit those of use.
If you send your CV in PDF or other format, it will remain most likely untouched and unconsidered at the bottom of the electronic documents submission list. What would you prefer?
Take time about your CV but the simplest thing you can do is send it in the most easily accessable format that can be read, re formated and read by OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology used by most recruitment databases for data capture.
Give yourself at least a fighting chance for your next job.
Tags: CV, CV advice, Database, job, OCR, Optical Character Recognition, PDF, recruitment, Word
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Are you what they want?
Less haste-more speed as the saying goes. I recently received over a dozen CV’s from candidates applying for jobs that they were quiet obviously not qualified to do, both in terms of experience and qualifications. After the tenth CV I became slightly paranoid and read my job descriptions again and realised they were correct and more than that were very specific in what I required from applicants.
For example, I was in one instance looking for a Degree Qualified Production Manager or Manufacturing Engineer with experience of Injection Moulded Medical Devices. What I received was a Production Manager with none of the other attributes, no degree, no medical device experience and no moulding experience?
Obviously the candidate was not suitable and was informed of this fact. That didnt help me as both his and my time was wasted.
This made me realise that the candidates were not or could not have been reading the job specification properly or fully before application or they would have realised this and not wasted their time.
Granted these are difficult times and people are frantically trying to find new jobs because of urgent financial commitments and they are in difficult situations, However that also means their time is even more valuable and probably better spent researching where suitable jobs are or by presenting their skills correctly and sending their CV’s to employers or Agencies that have positions that match their skills and experience
Consider this; if a candidate replies to a live requirement immediately that they are suitable for, if they are the first applicant they stand psychologically 1st in line for the job with the employer as that employer may require that person immediately and lean strongly towards the first suitably qualified candidate.
At the very least a requirement may be closing out and the applicant may have missed out on a closing application date whilst wasting time applying to an unsuitable post.
Applying to a requirement you dont suit means you are looking in the wrong direction at the wrong time and you may miss out to someone else who has taken their time selecting a suitable job and as a result won out ahead of you simply because they took the time to read the Job specification.
Tags: Agency, Applicant, CV, employer, Experienced, Injection Moulded, job specification, Manufacturing Manager, Medical Devices, Production Manager, Qualified, Read the Job Specification, Suitable
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
Use Word for your CV
For job seekers out there currently in the market, please remember to use only a Word.doc version of your CV to send to Recruitment Agencies.
Word is the most commonly used format and can be edited, changed and read easily.
Client Companies also do not like CV’s to be submitted in any other format than Word.
Other formats eg JPeg or PDF do not look as well, do not copy or edit as well and can take up alot of time to translate back in to Word.
If it’s not in Word format, your CV will not get the full attention it should as it will go down the priority list over someone else’s who’s CV is in Word and is good to go.
If you are looking for a job - only send your CV in a Word.doc format so it will get immediate attention and be more appealing to a Client Company
Tags: applying for a job, Curriculum Vitae, CV, CV format, jobs seekers, Word CV's, Word.doc
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Interview and CV preparation skills
It’s always nice to give something back to those who you work with. In the case of recruitment its nice to give something to those that recruiters most depend on to ensure their business’s continue to function;-ie the job seekers.
Many Irish recruitment agencies spend a lot of time taking CV’s but not giving enough feedback to those who are unsuccessful in their application but none the less have taken the time to respond to the advertisements that the agency has run. If they didn’t reply the agencies wouldn’t have the CV’s they require to support their clients requirements and by extension they would have nothing to offer to sell their recruiting services.
As recruiters work continually involves the professional assessment and presentation of CV’s and daily interviewing of candidates, they are uniquely qualified to present valuable insights and advice to candidates, and to enhance their candidates with the maximum possibility of achieving success in not only winning an interview, but also maximising their competitive potential against opposition at their individual interview.
The NRF has recently taken measures to address this and has set up workshops to educate those who require information on a variety of topics on areas such as CV and interview preparation. Jackie Brown Medical, an NRF award winning recruitment agency in particular, has provided it’s applicants with specialised tips and advice on a wide variety of professional topics to ensure and to enhance their job hunting prospects in today’s challenging employment market for medical professionals seeking work in the medical jobs recruitment market.
Please feel free to visit our website to read our testimonials and to review our advice center topics if you are looking for a winning CV or tips on how to get the best out of agencies and interviews. Its worth your while and our pleasure to help. After all, its nice to give something back.
Tags: beating the competition at interview, Candidates, CV, CV advice, CV preparation, Interview advice, interviewing, Irish agency, Irish Recruitment Agencies, Jackie Brown Medical, job hunting, maximum possibility of achieving success at interview, Medical Jobs, medical jobs recruitment, NRF Award Winner, Winning cv, winning the interview
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Those of you that have dealt with us here at Jackie Brown Medical will know that we feel very strongly about ethics in recruitment. Indeed, our own recruitment advice section makes it very clear where we stand on recruitment practices.
Education of job seekers has become a hot topic in recruitment. The onset of the recession caused an increase in incidences of bad practice. Job seekers found that their CV was arriving on the desks of HR departments from several different sources (five times in one case we know of). It became apparent that in order to protect job seekers they had to be educated in the art of using recruitment agencies.
The National Recruitment Federation, the only body which provides a code of ethics for recruiters, is piloting a certification process for recruiters.
A new recruitment directory also highlights advice/education. We highly recommend you take a look at their Recruitment Advice section. That applies to employers too.
Tags: Advice on Recruitment Agencies, Art of Using Recruitment Agencies, Bad Practice in Recruitment, Certification for Recruitement Consultants, Code of Ethics for Recruiters, CV, Desks of HR Departments, Educating Employers, Ethics in Recruitment, Five times, HR Departments, job seekers, Jobs Seekers Advice, National Recruitment Federation, Onset of the Recession, Protecting Job Seekers, Recruitment Advice, Recruitment agency advice, Recruitment Ethics, Recruitment Practices
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
An interview 'No No'
Hi guys,
One of my excellent Candidates was just told yesterday he was unsuccessful in his 2nd interview.
I was very surprised as he ticked all the boxes and had performed very well in his first interview and the feedback from it had been very positive.
I insisted on getting feedback for him and they told me he talked about his current Employer on three occasions in the interview and each time it was in a negative light.
This left them feeling they could not trust him.
Wow - lesson learnt and a very good point.
For all you job seekers out there, while this is such an Employers market, be very careful to make note of this and to never make such a simple mistake.
Tags: CV, CV tips, Interview advice, interview bad practice, interview guidelines, interview mistakes, Interview Tips, interviewing, job applications, Jobs, Medical recrtuiment agencies, Medical Sales interviews, recruitment, Recruitment Agencies, sales interviews
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Take the time
Good evening
I have recently undertaken a survey on over 1000 job seekers recently in the jobs market here in Ireland to find out how they are feeling and how they are being treated by their Recruitment Agencies.
The results have been disappointing from a Recruitment Agency point of view and have shown strong signs of frustration and a lack of communication between the Recruiter and the job seeker.
The following are the main points of note made by a clear majority of today’s job seekers -
- They do not feel they can fully trust their Recruiter as their CV has been sent out to Companies without their knowledge or consent
- They are not getting full and comprehensive feedback following an unsuccessful interview
- They are feeling the recruiter is treating them as a number to make money out of rather then a person in a vulnerable position who needs a level of care and attention
- Recruiters are generally not thorough enough in their searches of suitable jobs and will e mail the odd Job Description of non relevant jobs
- Recruiters are not following through on the whole interview process
- One of the requests for change was for the Recruiter to act like they care
- Not unlike the sale of a car, the recruiter can be attentive in the initial stages, but once a job is offered, they do not follow up with a good luck call or a call after the first week to see how the new job is going
I have been working in the Medical Recrutiment field for over 9 years now and my background is in Nursing, I do care very much for this very vulnerable and currently even more sensitive group of people and if we cannot show this in what we do every day by trying to take that extra step, then we need to be doing a different job.
Recruiters remember, we are changing lives for people and we need to take the time and interest to do that effectively.
For further information on recruitment best practice go to -
www.nrf.ie
The National Recruitment Federation is here to help the Recruitment Industry and it’s job seekers.
Tags: Candidates, Clients, CV, Interviews, job seekers, Medical Recruitment, National Recruitment Federation, NRF, recruitment, Recruitment Agencies, recruitment practice
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