Anyone ever paid for a CV ?

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By that i mean has anyone ever used a service where you send them your details etc and they design and create a slick looking CV ? If so do you have any links/recommendations

I've gone through so many templates for Word and they all look like ****, plus my CV is a little thin as i've been self employed musician for the past 7 years and thus don't have much to brag about in terms of work experience (although my education is pretty boss, got a masters in audio engineering)... im really struggling to come up with something, i figure some professional company might produce something decent and be able to figure out a way to work around my limited work experience.

Anyone got any suggestions ?
 

Thought about doing this earlier this year, didn't need to in the end but would like to hear if anyone has paid for one.
 
Focus on 'achievements' rather than 'jobs'. Think about the strengths, skills and capabilities you want a prospective employer to know about. Consider times when you have used those strengths, skills or capabilities, what you did, how and with what result.

Essentially you are selling you not your employment history.
 

No have never paid for a third party to do a CV and think it's a bit of a con to be honest. The person writing the CV needs to know you to offer up some meaningfull interaction. As said above it's about what you can present as learnt/achieved from each bit of work you've done. There's no point lying like **** and you can only work with what you have but there's many ways to spin something.

As a self-employed person you need to try and break it down a bit into different periods where you were maybe focusing on something different. Remember too as a self-employed person you'd have a start in terms of being able to say you've 'successfully' managed your own business - new customers, marketing, quality standards, profit and loss etc. Its easy when working for yourself to lump it all in together whereas with a company you'd have done particular courses, job rotations or maybe a promotion or two
 
No, and on top of which most recruitment agencies like your CV to be in a simple layout so they can chop it around and put their own logo on it, remove contact details etc.
 

I'm ok at writing CV's myself, just pretend you're a yank advertising exec and over sell yourself. try and make the CV specific for the job you're going for. Is it a complete change of career or still within music?

if its a change you may need to look at transferable skills. Like admin, telephone, money handling, customer facing, organisational, time management etc etc.

really depends on the job you're going for and matching your experience to what they want
 
moosed said:
By that i mean has anyone ever used a service where you send them your details etc and they design and create a slick looking CV ? If so do you have any links/recommendations

I've gone through so many templates for Word and they all look like ****, plus my CV is a little thin as i've been self employed musician for the past 7 years and thus don't have much to brag about in terms of work experience (although my education is pretty boss, got a masters in audio engineering)... im really struggling to come up with something, i figure some professional company might produce something decent and be able to figure out a way to work around my limited work experience.

Anyone got any suggestions ?
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I did when I was in New Zealand, I got the job so it was well worth it, I didn't have a pc at the time so had no choice really but later because they gave it me on disc I then altered it for further job applications.

I haven't got 1 so to speak of now as I've been self-employed for the last 9 years. Wow, that passed last week without me even realising tbh.

How much they cost to get done and what kind of format they have to be these days I wouldn't have a clue ? Folks will be creating Michael Owen style Brochures to get themselves a job.

*Starts Personal Promotions Business making Michael Owen style Brochures. Min Order 100.

You could probably do something like that on Vistaprint ?
 

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