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That is so helpful; thank you! E-mail me your city and I'll put you on my beer list :-D.
by bespoke_engnr 12y ago
That is so helpful; thank you! E-mail me your city and I'll put you on my beer list :-D.
- shock 12y agoI've had some more thoughts in the meantime: - switch from using a word processor to a typesetting system (latex or lout); this is important because of signalling[0]. There are numerous CV templates on writelatex and sharelatex. Email me if you need help with this. I use Gummi on Ubuntu with a template I exported from writelatex. - recruiters want to avoid risk. this means that the CV they present to the hiring managers needs have a good chance of being liked and selected by the hiring manager but it doesn't need to be the best in the batch of CVs that were submitted to the recruiter. a recruiter will get flak if he gives the hiring manager ill-fitting CVs but is unlikely to get flak for not giving the hiring manager the best CV in the bunch (simply because no one else will go through all the CVs) - recruiters and hiring managers also want the candidate that gets hired to be able to get the job done because otherwise it reflects poorly on them. keep this in mind always. you know you can get the job done, now you need to signal it to them too. if you see they are undecided, propose to them to give you a 2-week trial project at no monetary cost to them: this tells them you are committed to get the job (and that if they hire you, you'll probably do a good job because employees that are interested in the job do it better than uninterested ones) [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory