Archive for December, 2009

National Insurance Numbers

December 21, 2009

Only include your NI number if you want to fall victim to identity theft. Presumably that is not top of you list so leave it out! It is totally unnecessary on a CV and as more and more people put their CVs onto on-line databases it poses a severe threat to your financial health.

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What font to use?

December 15, 2009

We see many CVs that use some weird and wonderful fonts. This is fine if you are applying for jobs in the media or creative spheres, but for any other type of industry, the plainer the better. Arial is fine, as is Trebuchet MS and Verdana or Calibri. You should vary the font size to [...]

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Email Addresses

December 2, 2009

If you have had your email address for a number of years then the odds are that you chose it when in your mid-teens. What seemed witty and amusing then can look downright ridiculous now. We see email addresses like “crazychick1972@hotmail.com”, “daftasabrush1981@yahoo.com”. You get the idea. If you have an email address like this on [...]

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