Thursday's Tip - Catch me in 30 Seconds.

Hello again Jobseeker, how has the week been so far? Have you gotten any feedback from your applications? For those who have attended interviews; how did they go? remember to mail any questions you may have to rrecruit@outlook.com and we would be sure to reply you!

Now on to Thursday's Tip -catching me in 30 seconds. By this we mean grabbing and keeping our full attention within 30 seconds or less of us lifting your CV.

You see the competition for jobs out there today is unbelievable, we receive tons of applications for every job advert we have posted and we would say it loud and clear, this part of recruitment can be an extreme BORE.

Is your CV boring?

Yes it is our job to go through every CV and we make sure to do that, however we are human and our attention span shortens after our first, let's say 30 CV's. After then we only come alive when we pick a well prepared and interesting CV.

Here's a little exercise for you, pick up your CV and read it as if you were a busy recruiter whose client requires a vacancy to be filled in say two weeks. Now are you captured after ready your introduction or career objective or you feel like a snooze fest? Do not lie to yourself.

Since this is a quickie, here are 10 Tips on Grabbing Us in 30!:

1. Flush your CV - Not all your experience is relevant, we only want to see useful work experience
2. Two pages please - Your CV should not be longer than 2 pages. NO MATTER WHAT
3. Avoid singing your praises 'I am a seasoned and great mechanic? STOP & BACKSPACE
4. Your CV must always be aligned properly.
5. If you created your email address in secondary school and thus have a mailhoney@gmail.com type of address, please change it to a more formal one.
6. Your font size should ideally be between 10pt to 11.5/12. 12 might be a little large.
7. Don't over sell yourself or sound desperate, you would be surprised how we can sense that from paper.
8. Learn to write! Check your Spellings! Avoid run on sentences.
9. Do not use too much grammar in your sentences
10. Every section should have a heading.

As usual we found an interesting article on this tip on jobs.theguardian.com Is your CV boring?

Please click and read more, we would do a detailed post on how to get your CV to grab us in less than 30!

 RR