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Putting repeat LC on CV?

  • 19-02-2004 5:56pm
    #1
    ballooba
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭


    Do you think it is a bad idea to put a repeat LC on CV?

    Having repeated your L.C.

    I think I was a lot more mature going to college as a result.

    The reason I repeated was that I messed up my CAO first time round and my parents put pressure on me not to work for the year.


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  • #2
    uberwolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,581 ✭✭✭uberwolf


    you could put it down to having genuine ambition and not settling for second best. Its all about spin!


  • #3
    boo-boo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 94 ✭✭boo-boo


    Originally posted by ballooba

    I think I was a lot more mature going to college as a result.

    Nope - thats an excellent reason in itself & would go down very well in an interview.
    Esp. as theres a high drop out rate partly attrib to lack of maturity in first year students


  • #4
    Blitzkrieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,660 ✭✭✭Blitzkrieger


    I can't believe they ask about your LC at all. I got a PFO from a software company last week, suggesting that in future I mention my LC results on my CV. It was seven years ago! How the hell am I supposed to remember? Why would they even care? You'd think a software company would have been much more interested in my degree. Muppets.


  • #5
    emertoff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭emertoff


    The more well-intentioned "tips" on CV's and the every other aspect of job-hunting I read, the more I realise how artificial and fake the whole process is for most people. My LC was 10 years ago and I graduated 5 years ago. So in some interviews, even the relevance of my degree in terms of its being out-dated has come up. I wish for the day when I will meet an human interviewer, who realises that we all either spin the truth or lie on CV's, not because we want to, but because we have been forced to do so by the process itself. I interviewed people in my last job and tried to have a chat with people, and those that were hired on my recommendation weren't half bad. Where has common sense gone?


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