What’s wrong with your CV?
I see lots of CVs every week, and five things regularly tend to let them down:
– The personal profile
– The layout
– The length
– The lack of narrative
– The cut-and-paste job
Job hunting is a frustrating process. The job market is tougher than ever and there is more competition. It seems that there is always someone better than you, more qualified than you, and with more
experience than you, applying for the same position as you are.
Have you been retrenched? Maybe your position was the only position cut or maybe you were laid off with an entire department. The feelings caused by being retrenched are largely the same regardless of your circumstances.
The job market has certainly changed in the last few months. There will be a temptation for employers to now think that candidates are so desperate that they can be treated with much less respect and consideration. However, the lessons that companies were starting to learn before this crisis is that the candidate experience was a real issue and the best companies were taking it seriously.