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  • 29-11-2009 3:46pm
    #1
    GERMAN ROCKS
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,796 ✭✭✭


    is there a place in ucc you can go and they will help you with your cv and how to make it look good.


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  • #2
    samf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 329 ✭✭samf


    Yes - the careers office offer this service for free and you can just drop in any time - all the info is here http://www.ucc.ie/careers/contact.php.


  • #3
    PhatPiggins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,881 ✭✭✭PhatPiggins


    samf wrote: »
    Yes - the careers office offer this service for free and you can just drop in any time - all the info is here http://www.ucc.ie/careers/contact.php.

    Their service is also useless(in my experience)

    Be prepared to be asked questions by people who make the old drunk you
    had for career guidance in secondary school look like a guru.

    Very, very frustrating experience


  • #4
    samf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 329 ✭✭samf


    I havent found them that bad, the only frustrating thing i found about them was that if you go to one person and change your cv to suit them, you could go to a different councillor a month later and they'll tell you some of the changes that you were told to make are bad, leaving you totally confused. It happened to me.

    Another example was when I was going for placement they sent us out a sample cv, and while most of the class made their cv according to this, I didnt as I had already done mineby dropping into them and doing it with them, and I was told "that i have less of a chance of getting an interview, as my cv looked different to everyone elses." :confused:


  • #5
    PhatPiggins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,881 ✭✭✭PhatPiggins


    samf wrote: »
    I havent found them that bad, the only frustrating thing i found about them was that if you go to one person and change your cv to suit them, you could go to a different councillor a month later and they'll tell you some of the changes that you were told to make are bad, leaving you totally confused. It happened to me.

    Another example was when I was going for placement they sent us out a sample cv, and while most of the class made their cv according to this, I didnt as I had already done mineby dropping into them and doing it with them, and I was told "that i have less of a chance of getting an interview, as my cv looked different to everyone elses." :confused:

    I had the same difficulties. Everytime I went down there I was being told to do something different. Its like they have no standard practice and as for tailoring your CV to suit each individual job, forget it. The planks I dealt with all said to have the same CV for every job. Of course everyone of them wanted you structure it a different way.

    Less chance of getting an interview with a different CV :pac::pac: are they taking the piss? Of the three women I spoke with I dont think 2 of them had ever worked elsewhere and done any interviews themselves.

    As always everything you need is on boards :
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=10

    I found the people on the above ultra helpful and more importantly very professional.


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