FAO People who have experience writing CVs

[dabotsonline]

I've have written a CV to apply for a job at Page & Moy travel agents. I only only looking for a temporary job until I return to uni in mid-September, and whilst they see it as a permanent post, they "would consider all applications at the moment".

If you have a few minutes then I would appreciate it if you could have a quick look through. How can it be improved? My parents have read it through several times already but I'm still unsure about a few things? At the top of the cover letter, is my name meant to start with "Mr" or not? I used a draft cover letter te,plate in my local paper to help me, but that didn't even feature the applicant's name at the top! Is the letter meant to be justified as I've done it or is it meant to be fully justified? Is the formatting and content OK in the CV itself? Have I repeated myself? Anything I should take out, anything I should add?

Download here (PDF): http://www.dabotsonline.co.uk/Nick/nick_polydor_cv_removeddetails.pdf

Big thanks,

Nick

 

[pip uk]

Hi Nick,

It looks fine to me but I would possibly consider shortening the personal statement and hobbies and interests maybe into bullet points.

Otherwise good luck

 

[Mark Sun]

Hi Nick,

It looks fine to me but I would possibly consider shortening the personal statement and hobbies and interests maybe into bullet points.

Otherwise good luck

Agree with pip, ideally your CV should be no longer than 4 pages (so I was told)

 

[Marts]

ive had a lot of experience applying for jobs over the last year and ideally a cv should not be any longer than 2 pages. remember its just another application that someone has to sift through and they're looking for reasons to narrow down the number of candidates. from my experience, anything more than a 2 page cv will not be fully read.

 

[dabotsonline]

I've reformatted the document so that it's now three pages, including the cover letter (even though it's being submitted by e-mail). I have scrapped the listing of the grades, and just listed the number of qualifications for each type and the dates obtained.

I added another sentence to the letter: "I left Comet last September to start my degree course". Have also corrected the date!

I have reworded the final paragraph and moved it from the Hobbies & Interests section to the Personal Statement.

Many people on other forums suggested that I condense the Statement and Hobbies sections by changing it to a briefer, bullet-point format. However, my parents insisted that it read better as continous writing so I have kept it in that format. My Dad insisted that I "send it off quickly, before other people get the job", so that is what I have done, even though I wanted to tweak it further .

Many thanks to you all for your help - much appreciated!