Monday, 16 November 2015

Work Placement and Career Advice pt.2 - CVs

In this seminar, CVs was the main focus. For someone like me who has not written a proper CV before, this was extremely useful as there are some helpful tips to understand what information I would need to provide within a CV. I may have written one years ago back in secondary school when we were tasked to do 1 week of work experience but how the school handled the situation was annoying and they ended up placing me in college to do clean up duty which I did not asked for.

Some people were shocked to hear I don’t have a CV nor had done a part time job, I understand they were taken by some surprise to hear that for someone at my age, but also felt that they think I am behind in life and kept telling me to get a job, but during my time in education I did not see any time to find one, which others think it is an excuse, but to be honest I rather wait until I finish my education.

As for the seminar, I had written down notes of the things I need to know that are important, such as the order of details and information that are to be put on the CV, including skills, qualifications and interests, as well as the very little details that makes the CV presentable, such as the use of any graphic colour and choosing appropriate font style. I also get to know other approaches such as on-line CV and a creative CV, which I had not heard of before. Other information regarding cover letters and e-mails are also very useful to know how to write in a professional manner. Though I do know in general how to write professionally, but this has helped me to understand a lot better and clearer.

So far I had not written a CV to this date, though I will eventually as a practice. This seminar was useful and I thought I would need to go down to the career advisers myself at some point to help me out regarding on CVs, but thankfully the seminar had focused on this matter and I’m glad I had attended the session. Later on I may still need to go to the career advisers for further information but for the mean time I know what I would need to do for the CV with the notes I had written.


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