How To Write a Brilliant CV: What Employers Want To See and How To Write It, 5th edition
Published by Pearson Business (December 22, 2014) © 2015
- Tim Bright One World Consulting
- Joanne Earl
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When you apply for a job, your CV is compared to hundreds of others. You've only got the time it takes the employer to scan the pages to show how brilliant you are. How do you impress them when you don't know what employers are actually looking for?
Brilliant CV tells you what a prospective employer is looking for and how to write it – now. ·
- Learn how to write CVs that make the shortlist
- Understand what employers love and loathe
- Revamp your existing CV with minimum effort
- Learn how to make the most of online applications and social media
- Find out what works in the real world and learn how to put it into practice through examples, exercises, samples and templates.
- With brilliant new chapters on how to tackle online applications and using social media to land that perfect job, you’ll be well prepared and ready to really shine and stand out from the rest.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1 Writing a CV from scratch
1Â How to sell yourself
2Â The applicant-employer fit
3Â Where is the prime suspect?
4Â How to read a job ad
5Â Job descriptions
6 Do you fit the job?
7Â What sort of person are you?
8Â Making the perfect fit
9Â Presenting your CV
Part 2 The icing on the cake
10Â Mind your language!
11Â Using competency statements
12Â Telling tales
13Â Using career objectives
14Â Job application letters
Part 3 The doctor is in - your problems solved
15Â Addressing selection criteria
16Â Â CV makeovers
17Â Tricky CV issues
Part 4 Resource bank - useful ingredients and tips
18Â Finding out, finding others and being found: Job searching for a new decade
19Â Internet sites and other resources
Jim Bright is the managing partner of Bright & Associates. He has an international reputation as a career development professional based on his award winning innovative career development research, best-selling career development books and his entertaining and informative speaking and training.
Jim has over 20 years of experience in psychology and career development. Born in Royal Leamington Spa, he was educated at Trinity School and the University of Nottingham. He has a BA(Hons) and a PhD in psychology. He has published over 300 books,chapters journal and newspaper articles, tests and reports.Â
Jim regularly gives Keynotes and workshops around the world, and regularly visits the UK to work and speak.
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