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How To Write A Personal Profile For A CV
Employers expect that at the top of your CV, underneath your key information (name, address etc.), you have a personal profile, sometimes called a personal statement or career summary. You need to ensure you market your skills effectively in order to encourage the employer to interview you/recruit you and ensuring you have a punchy, concise and well worded personal profile is a surefire way you can get yourself noticed. Here are some tips for writing your personal profile:
What is a CV?
A CV is basically a document that details everything about your education, work experience/career history and training, with a little bit of...
The best tips to make changing career and job hunting easier
Finding a new job is one of the most daunting things to do. You are constantly showing the best of yourself, and will more often than not, be...
Organising childcare after maternity leave
Sorting childcare is the single most important thing that you need to do when you are on maternity leave or returning to work after a career...
Returning to work? Do you really want to?
Most working mothers regularly doubt whether they should or should not be working. We feel guilt, doubt our own motives, feel stressed or feel...
How women can best progress in their career: Find a sponsor
Much of the research on women and work published since the Davies report has focused on what women must improve upon in order to progress their...
How to manage a senior position and children – Jane Michell
Jane Michell runs Jane Plan, a business that has quickly grown from the kitchen table to a large business with thousands of clients, and 4...
The impact of divorce on your career – will it kill your career?
If you are looking to understand the impact of divorce on your career as a working mother. The first thing you need to understand is that...
Job Searching with Social Media
Increasingly job seekers are using social media as a way to find employment and employers are using social media to advertise their vacancies....
How to manage a senior position and children – Julia Tishenko
Julia Tishenko is Tesco's Category Director for Central Europe. She Tesco's home business in Europe, trading in Poland, Czech, Hungary,...
Returning to work after a second child – how different can it be?
I rather excitedly returned to work earlier this month having had almost a year off following the birth of my second son. Returning to work the...