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I have a lot of skills I use in my hobbies and helping others out, I study tech shit, physical\digital art and other languages, but my current employment is so basic it doesn’t need any of these things. And I have no in-paper proof I know them.
While writing my CV, I feel pretty lost. My position doesn’t say anything at all, and I don’t know how to show I have experience editing photoes, sound and video in Adobe, coding shit in different languages when it’s needed.
Do you have some guides to write a good CV? Or how to write in your occasional works in unrelated fields?
upd: One fucking doctor in my field asked me why I’m still there with all things I did they know about. I didn’t know what to answer.
upd2: Thank you Lemmers, you rock.
I’ll always repeat this to everyone as my go to.
For starters don’t count yourself out. If it says college degree or cert required and you don’t have it, apply anyways. I ignore them every time and 99% of the time I get an interview.
For resumes/CVs make sure to copy and paste some of the language they use in the job description or post. Try to blend it into things you have done or the hobbies you do.
Don’t forget to also use references that are actually pertinent to the job. Your previous boss is a good one, but so are people who work in that field that can vouch for you. Don’t be afraid to actually ask people you know and name drop where you can.
Interviewing is a skill. Take notes, take time to answer questions, drink some water. Acknowledge interviewers and their questions and always try to stay on track of their question. Sometimes I have stories for my answers and at the end I like to bring it back by repeating the question and then explaining how that story answered it.
Lastly be reliable and helpful at your job. People don’t care if you don’t answer work calls or texts after hours, but they do care if you take initiative to help and ask occasionally if there’s something you can do to help. Don’t over work yourself, and remember to shit on company time, but do try to make an impact on key people so you can keep crawling up this shitty capitalist ladder.
Also, checkout Etsy for some good Google doc templates. I paid like 99 cents for a great resume and CV template that looks way better than I could have done in a few hours. I keep my resume, reference letters, any important job docs, and a spreadsheet of references in a Google drive folder (OneDrive, Dropbox, other cloud services work too obviously).
Pretty good advice. I’d add that almost all hiring managers are looking for someone they can teach/train who is reliable and wants to be productive. Someone with a ton of knowledge in their field but doesn’t show up half the time or who doesn’t meet deadlines is worthless. Trying really is half the battle. My best people were at the ground level when hired but had great attitudes.
Source: I’ve been a manager who hires in 2 industries for 20+ years overall.
That Etsy tips is so precious. Thank you very much !
There are some things I’m good at, and some things that I might be decent at, but would take me longer than a 99 cent download. 😅 it wasn’t worth my time after that.
This is good advice. I would caution on using some CV templates though. Some of the automated CV parsers get screwed up on certain formats and then think your CV is illegible and throws it away. There are some ATS scanners online that may help to let you know if there’s a problem with your format.
If you copy and paste my job posting into your CV I will throw that shit away, and if it came from a recruiter, they would be fired.
Based on how you skimmed my comment I’m going to assume you weren’t going to read a CV very well anyways.
Lmao