Personal statements on CVs/Resumes

[Zanza]

http://www.cvconsultants.co.uk/cv_templates/cv_templates.html

British CVs are quite different from German CVs apparently. Interesting.

[Brazen]

Recruitment sites also recommended using a sans serif font like Ariel instead of Times New Roman. It looks like a child wrote it. Maybe I should try Comic Sans.

[Warspite]

Recruitment sites also recommended using a sans serif font like Ariel instead of Times New Roman. It looks like a child wrote it. Maybe I should try Comic Sans.

[Ideologue]

Recruitment sites also recommended using a sans serif font like Ariel instead of Times New Roman. It looks like a child wrote it. Maybe I should try Comic Sans.

Lol.  I don't mind Arial, though.  I think it looks kind of nice.  I think this is Arial, isn't it?

I've gotta write a cover letter for some clerk thing today.  Don't want to.  I want a job to make money.  Give me money and I will do the job.  Actually, I think I'd like it, since it's working with a consumer protection agency...

Oh fuck, this means secured transactions, doesn't it?  I might as send them a picture of my dick.  Won't hurt my chances.

[szmik]

I've gotta write a cover letter for some clerk thing today.  Don't want to.  I want a job to make money.  Give me money and I will do the job. 

I hate writing letters.
Money is why I'm working at all, so why should I put some other shit in such letter? Especially when I'm applying for some clerk shit job the monkey can handle. If I was the man I'm describing in a letter I wouldn't apply for your shitty job, cause headhunters would have got me already.

[Rasputin]

I've gotta write a cover letter for some clerk thing today.  Don't want to.  I want a job to make money.  Give me money and I will do the job. 

Blah, Blah, Blah, ...

If I was the man ...headhunters would have got me already.

qft

that being said when i see personal statements it usually goes into the recycle bin...

of course there are exceptions to every rule and one of my current associates got his job because he put "50 Caliber Machine Gun" under his proficciencies (he was usmc)

I saw that and I said hire that guy

[HisMajestyBOB]

I thought statements and objectives were on the way out. I was so happy to remove them from my resume. A cover letter is far better than any stupid statement.

But since most places now take applications online, I mostly use my resume to copy-paste certain sections into their online forms.

[Martinus]

Did you guys ever come across Competence based CVs instead of experience based?

Most of them are partially this and partially that. Listing your languages, or education is competence based. For entry level people it is essential.

[Martinus]

Yeah, what lemonjello said. I guess in some jobs "creativity" can be a plus but any lawyer CV that goes for "originality" usually ends in the bin.

I want to know which school you finished and which jobs you held. Give me a time to figure out you are a douche until the interview - don't make it apparent from your cv already.

[Razgovory]

I was planning to make an aircraft carrier joke, but couldn't muster the will. 

[Martinus]

A recent cv had "an avid cigar smoker" in the "personal interests" section. I considered hiring the guy just on the off chance it was a code for "homosexual".

[Ed Anger]

A recent cv had "an avid cigar smoker" in the "personal interests" section. I considered hiring the guy just on the off chance it was a code for "homosexual".

If I ever read that on a resume, I'd think 'smelly asshole' who will be outside smoking all the time instead of working. Pass.

[Rasputin]

A recent cv had "an avid cigar smoker" in the "personal interests" section. I considered hiring the guy just on the off chance it was a code for "homosexual".

but you can't sleep with the help

[Martinus]

A recent cv had "an avid cigar smoker" in the "personal interests" section. I considered hiring the guy just on the off chance it was a code for "homosexual".

but you can't sleep with the help

Yes

[Ideologue]

I like how the word "avid" makes anything sound classier.  "I'm an avid methamphetamine user," for example.