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[phillc]

Originally Posted by servicebiatch

Your personal details, age, married etc... and your interests. This just give the agents and potential employers a bit about you other than your career.

I would recommend not putting this type of information in your CV. It is irrelevant and while someone cannot be discriminated against because of things like age, why risk it. If an employer wants to figure out your age they can make an educated guess from your employment and educational history.

[MJS]

Mine contains personal details about me - ie name, address, contact details, DOB, post-school qualifications, languages spoken, nationality, profession, skills specific to my profession (in my case CAD skills). Then it has a brief summary of my work experience, then a detailed job by job, project by project breakdown of who I've worked for and what I've done on each project - starting with the current project and working backwards.

Works for me, but then I've always been a contractor and moved around plenty. I've never bothered including anything about my private life and interests which is not relevant to my ability to do a job.

Good luck Kev

Cheers
Martin

[rcgbob44]

Is that 30 hours O/T a month average? I usually average about 100 hours a month to survive!

[Assembly Angel!]

A CV shouldn't be too long, no one wants to spend ages reading it, keep it brief and to the point. An agency should always ring you and/or invite you in for a chat for more information, and they will then create a profile for you, which they then send out to clients.
Also ask the consultant if they would consider working proactively on your behalf, marketing your CV out to companies, this can work well if you have a particular company that you would like to work for... you can even do this yourself.

No need to put details on there like married, kids etc. age, well up to you... personally I would put it on.

[Chris Wood]

Kev,

Try the direct approach to organisations that you know and would like to work for, ones that match your location preference etc.

As said above, very few jobs are advertised now, referalls through a network of business contacts is what you want.

By making direct contact attaching your Cv to a letter or email you can get them thinking about the benefits you would bring to them.

I'll email some stuff to you, example CV's and letters. I've been under notice of redundancy all year and are now coming to the end of my contract, 1st Dec, so have been shopping myself about a bit lately. Best options have come from refferals not adverts for me.

But I only work with strange things called people, not complex machines like you do!!! LOL

Cheers.