Wednesday 16 November 2011

foxyprincess69@unprofessional.org.uk

The title says it all really.

When you're sending off a CV and Covering Letter think about how you come across to the person reading it. They haven't met you, they can only go on what you have written down.

You need to give a little personality for sure in fact i remember someone telling me about the best CV they ever recieved. They had discovered that he loved DVD's so they created a DVD with their CV on, it was in a DVD case with sleeve, front cover etc. He was so impressed that they had made the special effort just for him that he gave them the job. I'm not saying you should stalk the employer but do think about how your information comes across. The layout, the tone, the font etc.

But my biggest pet hate is unprofessional email addresses. I've just flicked through a couple of CV's sent in and i can't believe people have acutally included some of these email addresses. In fact 3 out of 7 of these CV's contain an email address i consider to be unprofessional.

Go with firstname.surname@.... And keep it clean and professional. They are free afterall so there's no excuse, if your address is inappropriate change it today.

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