CV

If You Have Gaps in your Work History

Submitted by megsamazing on Sun, 12/09/2007 - 16:12.

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How do you design your CV if you have Gaps in your work history?

The last thing you should do is hide them!

You may feel these gaps may reflect a negative side of you and may discourage them to call you. On the contrary, if they discover that you are hiding career gaps, it may reflect on your deceptive personality!

The way out…

Reason out
When you have legitimate or even near legitimate reasons for your work gap, explain it to them. If you are convinced on the reasoning, you can convince them too!

Travelling

How To Write An Impressive Resume

Submitted by Shalini on Wed, 08/01/2007 - 05:00.

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The resume that you send to a prospective employer is your first introduction to him/her. This makes it very important to write your resume in such a way that it helps you put your best foot forward.

Authors:

Shalini

Your resume, or CV if you like, is the window through which any prospective employer gets a peek into your skills and capabilities. It is an advertisement (for you) that precedes you everywhere you go for an interview. It even gets to places where you are not invited (if its not attractive enough). Shouldnt you put more creativity and effort into writing a resume that is attractive, interesting and worth considering for the company?