How To Write A Winning Cv - Softcover

Jones, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712670246 ISBN 13: 9780712670241

Publisher: Random House Business, 2001

Synopsis

How to Write a Winning CV is a blueprint for the perfect CV: one that not only presents you at your very best but avoids the common (and not so common) pitfalls that make employers turn applicants down, often without even seeing them. It examines every section of the CV, providing real-life examples of CVs that worked, as well as some that didn't - an essential source of guidance and advice at every stage of a career.

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Review:

Alan Jones' How to Write a Winning CV is one of hundreds of books providing advice on this subject. What makes it different, you may ask? Well... the difference lies in its perspective. This book is not just about constructing the perfect tool with which to promote your skills and expertise, but also and more importantly perhaps, it's about attitude. "You are the product," says Jones, "your CV is the packaging and the employer is the consumer. A winning CV must be sstimulating enough to generate the interest of the reader."

Getting that interview is hard enough with all the current pressures of the job market. Your CV is your marketing tool. It's that little bit of paper on which you can sell your strengths and hide or defend your weaknesses. Jones very competently takes us through the structure of the perfect CV, and uses several examples to show how rewording a sentence, or using a dictionary can make all the difference between being a winner and a loser. He also provides a series of sample covering letters to make sure that you maximize your chances of getting that interview.

Your CV is a means to an end. However, once you've got that vital foot in the door, it's up to you to prove that you can actually do the job and being able to do this competently is less about being the right person for the job and more about knowing how to play the interview game. But just in case you slip up, Jones has also written another handy little book called Winning at Interview. With this combination of information, how can you possibly fail? --Aruna Vasudevan

Book Description:

The best practical guide showing you how to avoid the common, and not so common, pitfalls that make employers turn candidates down, often without even seeing them.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Business
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0712670246
• ISBN 13: 9780712670241
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 176