The Most Common Mistake Jobseekers Make In Their CV
A simple reframing can make you more attractive to potential employers, and give you a self-esteem boost while you write it
Hi, I am Raluca and for the last four years, a big part of my job for the charity Work Rights Centre has been employability mentoring: helping jobseekers escape the cycle of precarity and bad jobs by supporting them to find better work. Teaching people how to write an effective, eye-catching CV is often the first step.
Very often, when people draft their CV, in the job history section, they start writing something like this:
January 2016- January 2020: Chocolate Teapot Communications Executive
- Managing an email list;
- Responsible for communication with external stakeholders
- Providing customer service to our clients
Basically, your description of the job, in your CV, looks about the same as the listing for the job that you applied for back when you were hired; it talks about what your job description, as set by your employer, looked like.
And we don’t want that. What really compels employers, instead, is seeing your achievements. In other words, what you need to do is make the…
