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CVs & Interviews Made Easy

Gill Dodds

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A book that's full of expert advice on creating a winning CV and tactics for success at interview.

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781902646817
Price: £9.99 

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About this book

Your CV is the key to opening up your career opportunities. As your first contact with a potential employer or client, it is vital that your CV marks your talents and experience effectively, convincing the reader that you have a great deal to offer them.
 
This book shows you how to create a winning CV and face interviews with greater confidence. Author Jill Dodds provides advice and examples based on her experience of working as a university careers adviser at De Montfort University, Leicester for ten years, where she advised students and graduates applying for jobs in areas as diverse as IT, law, the media, health care and scientific and environmental work.

CVs & Interviews Made Easy covers everything you need to know to successfully get you through the job-hunting procedure from researching your employer and creating impressive covering letters to making a good impression at interview. It also shows you how best to deal with application forms and other selection methods, such as psychometric tests and presentations. For those who want to change direction, make a mid-career move or are returning to work after unemployment, Jill Dodds also explains the strategies needed to make these changes come about.

Packed with advice, tips, worksheets, example CVs and real-life case studies from employers and recruitment specialists, this Guide is everything you need under one cover!

Product details

Edition: First   Published 2000
Format: Paperback   ISBN: 9781902646817
Code: B514   Price: £9.99
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The author

Jill has been a freelance writer and editor on career and natural health issues since 1999. Her varied career history has included working as an Information Librarian in university libraries, and ten years’ experience as a careers adviser at De Montfort University in Leicester. There she worked with several thousand clients on CV creation and development and interview skills through one-to-one advisory sessions, lectures and interactive group work. She has a Diploma in Careers Guidance and is an accredited psychometric tester.
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Chapter index

  1. Know your strengths
  2. Researching your future
  3. Choosing the right format
  4. Putting it together
  5. Drafting your CV
  6. Letters that impress
  7. Application forms
  8. Starting out - CVs for graduates
  9. Mid-career moves
  10. Changing your direction
  11. Returning to work
  12. Marketing yourself: CVs for the self-employed
  13. Interviews - what to expect
  14. Preparing yourself
  15. Making an impression
  16. Tackling difficult questions
  17. Other selection methods
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