I was watching “Emmerdale” and the character of Liv wanted a summer job, Doug told her she’d need a CV, she responded she didn’t know how! I was screaming at the TV, use Dalmatian! It’s free and easy.
Putting together a CV for the first time can be daunting, where do you start? What needs to go on it? And if you’re quite young, what on earth do you put on it?
Dalmatian makes putting your CV together really easy, whether it’s the first time you’ve done one or the 90th!
It’s really easy to make a start, firstly head to our website and click register. From there, select simple CV and our site will prompt you on the sort of information you need to put in.
If like “Emmerdale’s” Liv, this is your first CV, then don’t think that you don’t have anything to put on it.
Firstly, start with the basics, such as your education, even if your waiting for results, you can still put down your predicted grades. You can easily alter your profile at a later date, when you’ve got your results.
When you put together your Dalmatian profile, it will ask you about your hobbies. These can be a really important element to your CV as they might be relevant to the job that you’re applying for. If you play a sport or maybe in a band, it will highlight that your good at working in a team and are disciplined when it comes to training or rehearsing. These are all qualities that are important in the workplace.
Your Dalmatian profile, will also ask you about your achievements, these can be things that you’ve achieved either in our out of school, such as being a prefect, organising a charity fundraiser, winning a competition, sporting award or achieving a music grade.
When it comes to your skills, try and think about what is involved in your hobbies and achievements, these will help you identify your skills. These could be things such as team work, organisational skills, time management, public speaking.
It might be that you write a blog, build websites or have a voluntary position, these are all things that can go on your Dalmatian profile.
Putting your Dalmatian profile together can be done on a computer, phone or tablet and should take no longer than 10 minutes. Then you can choose from our many templates for your CV, which you can then e-mail off or print off and send off.
Your profile and CV can be updated any time you like and it’s something that can evolve throughout your whole career.
So, whether you need a CV for the very first time or you need to breath a bit of life into your old one, create your free Dalmatian profile today by heading to our website.
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