CV development advice
May 14th 2012 | 6:17 pm
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CV development advice
I am a fresh graduate in BS Electrical(Telecommunication) Engineering. I am applying in lot of companies but not getting any calls. 
I think there might be a problem with my CV. Can someone help me to build a professional attractive CV. Please reply with your email ids so that i can forward my Resume to you. I shall be really thankful
Najam
I think there might be a problem with my CV. Can someone help me to build a professional attractive CV. Please reply with your email ids so that i can forward my Resume to you. I shall be really thankful Najam
May 14th 2012 | 6:24 pm
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Re: CV development advice
The problem is you have no experience, no one will hire a fresh graduate.
May 14th 2012 | 6:50 pm
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Re: CV development advice
There's little point to a flashy CV if there's not any relevant content....as the man says, get a couple years of experience in your home country first.
May 14th 2012 | 6:57 pm
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Re: CV development advice
Unless you have a contact who can sneak you in of course but yes, couple of years experience as the other have said...
May 14th 2012 | 7:07 pm
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Re: CV development advice
Just make up a load of experience and shove it on the CV. It's was 99% of the other applicants will be doing.
May 15th 2012 | 1:58 am
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Re: CV development advice
May 15th 2012 | 2:07 am
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Re: CV development advice
May 17th 2012 | 6:07 pm
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Re: CV development advice
There are plenty of people who will hire fresh graduates, but they tend to do so through specifically targeted graduate recruitment programmes etc; unusual to hire someone on the basis of an unsolicited CV.
Nevertheless you can still make a CV look good - apart from the obvious (school and university qualifications etc), what else have you done? Have you worked on any community projects that you can show as an 'achievement'? My daughter, while still at school, spent one afternoon per week helping young children with basic science stuff (simple experiments etc), the idea being that she aroused their interest in the subject for later years. It's on her CV, and she has been asked about it in more than one interview.
I remember the (true) story of a female applicant who had founded Women in Publishing in Oxford, a group which helped young female writers get their stuff published (pre-internet days). She had put it on her CV as a 'hobby' - when someone pointed out that it was actually a bloody good 'achievement', things started to happen, jobs-wise (she changed her CV accordingly).
Inexperience in employment doesn't mean your CV will be empty.
Nevertheless you can still make a CV look good - apart from the obvious (school and university qualifications etc), what else have you done? Have you worked on any community projects that you can show as an 'achievement'? My daughter, while still at school, spent one afternoon per week helping young children with basic science stuff (simple experiments etc), the idea being that she aroused their interest in the subject for later years. It's on her CV, and she has been asked about it in more than one interview.
I remember the (true) story of a female applicant who had founded Women in Publishing in Oxford, a group which helped young female writers get their stuff published (pre-internet days). She had put it on her CV as a 'hobby' - when someone pointed out that it was actually a bloody good 'achievement', things started to happen, jobs-wise (she changed her CV accordingly).
Inexperience in employment doesn't mean your CV will be empty.
May 17th 2012 | 7:09 pm
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Re: CV development advice
There are plenty of people who will hire fresh graduates, but they tend to do so through specifically targeted graduate recruitment programmes etc; unusual to hire someone on the basis of an unsolicited CV.
Nevertheless you can still make a CV look good - apart from the obvious (school and university qualifications etc), what else have you done? Have you worked on any community projects that you can show as an 'achievement'? My daughter, while still at school, spent one afternoon per week helping young children with basic science stuff (simple experiments etc), the idea being that she aroused their interest in the subject for later years. It's on her CV, and she has been asked about it in more than one interview.
I remember the (true) story of a female applicant who had founded Women in Publishing in Oxford, a group which helped young female writers get their stuff published (pre-internet days). She had put it on her CV as a 'hobby' - when someone pointed out that it was actually a bloody good 'achievement', things started to happen, jobs-wise (she changed her CV accordingly).
Inexperience in employment doesn't mean your CV will be empty.
Nevertheless you can still make a CV look good - apart from the obvious (school and university qualifications etc), what else have you done? Have you worked on any community projects that you can show as an 'achievement'? My daughter, while still at school, spent one afternoon per week helping young children with basic science stuff (simple experiments etc), the idea being that she aroused their interest in the subject for later years. It's on her CV, and she has been asked about it in more than one interview.
I remember the (true) story of a female applicant who had founded Women in Publishing in Oxford, a group which helped young female writers get their stuff published (pre-internet days). She had put it on her CV as a 'hobby' - when someone pointed out that it was actually a bloody good 'achievement', things started to happen, jobs-wise (she changed her CV accordingly).
Inexperience in employment doesn't mean your CV will be empty.
