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The Biggest Challenges In Creating Your CV and How To Overcome Them
Your CV is a key document in helping you to land your next job. A good CV will get you more job interview invitations. While this might seem really obvious it can often be a challenge to create a good CV. So what are some of the biggest challenges in creating your CV and how do you overcome […]
Continue readingHow To Present Achievements On Your CV
Presenting your achievements on your CV. Here’s one way to make your achievements stand out. And that’s to make sure that when you write them, you keep them short and you really focus on the business benefit of the achievement. Now, if you can put hard numbers in terms of money saved or time saved, that’s great. But […]
Continue readingAdd This To Your CV To Stand Out
Hi it’s Duncan Brodie here from Goals and Achievements. In this short video, I want to talk about the number one thing that I see that’s missing from the vast majority of CVs that I look up from accountants and professional people. And that is a lack of achievements. Now many people spend a lot of time listing […]
Continue readingAre You A/B Testing Your CV?
You know as a candidate your CV has one objective. To get you invited to the job interview. Sounds really simple in theory. In practice it’s a whole lot tougher. Creating a good CV is difficult. There’s plenty of advice out there. Yet for some accountants and professionals it can be a struggle. I’ve reviewed a lot of […]
Continue readingTake The Time To Craft A Good Covering Letter or Note
40 years ago when I started out in my accounting career, the job application process was very different. Newspapers were the primary source of job adverts. Some may have used professional journals. Back then using recruitment consultants wasn’t that common. Fast forward to current times (2020). The internet has made advertising a job easy. There are numerous job boards. […]
Continue readingAre You Making It Easy For Employers To Reject Your CV?
Your CV is your personal marketing document. A good CV gets you interviews. A poor CV gets rejected. Conceptually you might understand this. On the other hand are you making it easy to reject your CV? Reality As many as 70% of CV’s are rejected before ever being reviewed by a human being! Are you making it […]
Continue readingHow To Make The Career History Section of Your CV Stand Out
As an accountant or professional you know that your CV or resume is an important document. Produce a good one and you get more job interview invitations. Produce a mediocre CV or resume and you get rejected at the first stage. You know that you need to have a complete career history on your CV and […]
Continue readingThe Challenge for Accountants When It Comes To Their CV and How to Overcome It
I was doing a consultation with a highly experienced finance professional a while back.We had previously spoken about their CV by email. I’d shared some tips along with a free guide. They had reworked their CV several times. Even after several re-drafts it still fell short of being good enough.Sadly this is not uncommon. When […]
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Why You Really Are The Best Person To Create Your CV
I was doing a career consultation with a senior finance professional recently. As well as other documents the individual sent over their CV to get my thoughts on it. Ultimately the CV has one primary objective. To get you through the screening process and get on to the job interview. These days that screening process may be […]
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