elmtree

Please help !

I remember seeing a thread with a link for an Australian company who prepared cv's / resumes. I can't find it. Does anyone know where it is, please ?

Also, has anyone used an Aus company for preparing their cv ?

Thanks, in anticipation.

BertieB

Found this link in the search - don't know if it's any use to you. What about looking on seek or career one - they have some useful info/tips on cvs

Best of luck

Ann

elmtree

Thanks for the reply, Ann, er .... but where is the link ?

I have tried seek.com, but I wanted to find the company in Aus who re-write CV's. I need all the help I can get !

BertieB

woops - sorry bout that

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...hlight=resumes

elmtree

God bless ya. That's the one !

Thanks, Ann.

BertieB

we aim to please

BertieB

thanks for the K

ozzieeagle

I used a professionaly prepared one about 10 years back. It got me nowhere.

I just applied for a job, at age 51, for Centrelink here, preparing my own and specifically aiming any relevant experience towards the advertised job that I could. Leaving very little detail of my more professional but very distant past from the UK. It didn't look anywhere near as pretty as the professional one. However I got through the first stage of the interview process. After a 1 and half hour on line test, Much to my amazement.

I'd aim specifically at each invidual job, preparing relevant parts of your resume towards it. I dont think the powers that be look for perfect presentation, more like relevant context.

One thing I will warn everyone about. I was totally unprepared for the 2nd part of the interview process, As I thought I hadn't got the job and was waiting for a rejection letter, then out of the blue, I received a phone call, which turned out to be a phone interview, with questions like "explain centerlink and it's relevance to the population" and "when faced with difficult customers, give us 3 different approach styles that you would take'. To say that caught me unawares is an understatement. However I havn't received a email back saying I havn't gotten through to the 3rd stage yet..

I'd love to know whether phone interviewing is standard procedure or not ?

elmtree

Thanks for that. Unfortunately, I can't be job-specific; I am having an employment agency find me a job so I need to get a good, all-encompassing resume to them. They will then get me to meet someone here in the UK for an informal interview.

I just can't pep it up enough for what I want, so I'll price a company up and see what's what.

ozzieeagle

Well best of luck, I've found the whole process bloody nerve wracking. I just fell into a job here back in 1980, (gas and fuel, meter reading) after a process consisting more or less, just filling in a form, and a chat about where I had come from. 16 years later I took a redundancy package. The next job I got that via word of mouth, and a phone call to start, to replace an acute staff shortage they had at our local post office. 10 years on from there, I'm sick of night shift, but still working .and trying some way out things, that thus far seem to be Working :scared:.

For people reading this thread, my only English experience was working in the city of London, in merchant banks and Ship brokers as a telex op and general back up. Over here I've been strictly blue collar. Just shows you dont know where migration will take you.

Oh well if all else fails, I can get a bike licence and become a postie. Relatively dangerous (in the top 5 most hazardous occupations in Aussie, because of the constant bike riding) But now preferable to working nights I think.

kellyjs

Thought I would update you on how well my newly written resume has been recieved so far. I have only sent it to two agencies and asked for their feedback, both have been impressed and said that mine was a cut above the rest. I haven't started looking for work properly yet as we have only been here for a week and a bit and are struggling to find longer term accomodation first but I'm glad I paid the money and had someone else do all the hard work for me :-)