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Career Development Centre (CDC) => Career Tips => Career Planning => Career Guidance => A Good CV/Resume => Topic started by: Shamim Ansary on June 20, 2010, 09:08:09 AM

Title: How an Employer Short Lists 5 CVs from 100
Post by: Shamim Ansary on June 20, 2010, 09:08:09 AM

How I Do It

I have done lots of CV searches for my company, and bin all CVs over three pages.

Send me a five pager and you have no chance.

When you get 100 CVs (or, sometimes more) to read and 3 hours to make up a short list of 5 to discuss fully, anything that saves time is useful.

To be honest, when time is tight, I normally only get to the first page of a CV.

We have not been employing anyone for the last two years, except for graduates straight from college) so I am a bit out of practice.

The five then get discussed further, and we will normally interview 3 of those.

Ones that Get Binned

Other auto bins are

*     Bad handwriting (we still get handwritten CVs!)

*     Too much colour

*     Too hard to find info (if I can’t find it easily on your CV you might as well not have not done it)

*     Inconsistent info (we normally get CVs from several agencies, with duplicates. We do compare them, and if anything is different bye bye)

By Gerry McLaughlin

Title: Re: How an Employer Short Lists 5 CVs from 100
Post by: papelrezwan on August 09, 2010, 05:50:46 PM

really!!!
Nice informative post. Yes, we should be careful about this.
Thanks Mr. Shamim Ansary for this post. Our students are getting more information and knowledge about C.V writing and placing. 

Title: Re: How an Employer Short Lists 5 CVs from 100
Post by: goodboy on November 08, 2010, 09:25:38 PM

This post will gonna be a effective line to direct the CV writers "HOW TO WRITE A CV"..........









Shajib