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CV help

  • 07-05-2012 12:50pm
    #1
    Mrs Garth Brooks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭


    I have been looking at my CV and fixing it up and i am quite happy with it. It ran into three pages and thats leaving those crappy summer jobs out from years ago. I narrowed it down to two pages.

    I have a section called employment history and in it, i have included all the relevant work. I have about 5 jobs, four of them relevant. One of them isn't but i have worked there for six years, so that is a massive gap if i left it out.

    Of the other four, it was work experience from the course i did, so i wasn't employed. I was a student on work experience. Is it all ok to include it under employment history or is there anything else i can call this section.


    Also, is there any particular way i should save the CV? Sometimes if i receive an attachment in an email, it might turn out all warped. I presume its something to do with the program used to write it. I use MS word, so when sending it, can this end up warped on the reveiver's computer?


Comments

  • #2
    HOS 1997
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭HOS 1997


    Can you save it in PDF format?


  • #3
    Mrs Garth Brooks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Mrs Garth Brooks


    HOS 1997 wrote: »
    Can you save it in PDF format?

    Yes i can save it as PDF. Tried saving it as PDF a couple of minutes ago. Is it accepable to send cv as a PDF?


  • #4
    HOS 1997
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭HOS 1997


    HardLuckWoman wrote: »
    Yes i can save it as PDF. Tried saving it as PDF a couple of minutes ago. Is it accepable to send cv as a PDF?

    Yes. I was under the impression that's how they were sent now if emailing a potential employer.


  • #5
    saraocallaghan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 231 ✭✭saraocallaghan


    I've sent CV's as PDF's and have been asked by the recruiter/HR person to send it to them as a word document. So just ensure you have both formats in case they ask


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