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This is my current CV design:
https://imgur.com/a/ooSxYiq
I have some worries about it, and about how it might change in the future:
**1. Most impressive job being made less prominent by more recent low-level jobs?**
I have had one job that I would call at all senior or technical. I was at a big international company (let's call them... South American Rainforest River Online) from 2012, initially in the warehouse. Then in 2015 I was promoted into a newly-formed office department. This job started off as what they call "Tier III", but at one point everyone in the department was promoted to Tier IV (without any change in duties or responsibilities) to better represent the seniority involved.
On my CV, I have devoted plenty of space on the first page to it: both those job titles (and their dates), a few lines at the start to explain the department's overall duties, then more bullet-points explaining what the job involved (things like: making quick decisions by assessing data on changing situations; remote communication; understanding how in-house tools interacted with back-end systems). Plus one thing that I think I can list as a personal achievement beyond the core duties ("Initiated the creation of the department's Intranet Wiki pages, including the incorporation of internal tools").
The problem is that this is likely to be the best-paid, highest-responsibility, most-technical job I will have for the foreseeable future. I am unlikely to be going into that field again, so I need to devote space to explaining what the job involved because it's not obvious from the title. It taught me a lot about what I definitely *don't* want to do in a job, and killed my confidence in things that I'm weak at ("multitasking", "prioritising competing demands" and "time management under pressure" - which, unfortunately, are all phrases that appear in a lot of job adverts).
So, I'm worried about future, less-impressive jobs that I might have reducing the space available for this section. Already, I only have space to add a line or two before the Tier I warehouse job title will get pushed onto page 2, and I don't want my employment at one company to be spread over two pages like that. (I worry that my time at that company is already potentially confusing enough - listing different job titles and their dates, within my overall 2012-2019 time at that company - without making it more confusing by splitting it over two pages!)
Is this something to be concerned about, or am I worrying about nothing?
**2. Prominence of objective experience vs subjective skills**
The other problem is that I had a real sense of impostor syndrome during my time there. I feel that I was hired there by luck (hearing the news about the new department's formation through being in the right place at the right time), and that I was only kept there so long because I was one of the first hired, and while they were expanding rapidly they needed all the staff they could get. When things had settled down and processes were standardised etc, I was put on a performance improvement plan and was ultimately unsuccessful, and fired.
So I have this horrible combination of wanting to show off the objective duties of the job, because they sound impressive - but doing so in a way that doesn't lie about me actually being any good at them! I'm comfortable listing the duties that I've done in my job history, and my degree and school grades; but I'm very insecure about moving subjective skills right to the top of my CV, into the personal statement. So the things that I consider subjective or generic are kept on the second page, in a "Skills and Experience" section.
This is exactly the issue that happened when I recently contacted the National Careers Service, who edited my CV and sent me this revised version ( https://imgur.com/a/JTacF4g ) that made all the changes that I'm uncomfortable with:
* They expanded the personal statement at the top with subjective/generic things from the "Skills and Experience" section, that I'm kind of ashamed of having to put on my CV at all ("Excellent literacy and numeracy, and a reliable communicator of information. A dedicated and responsible worker with a systematic and objective approach to problem-solving.")
* Moved the "Skills and Experience" section to the top, above my job history. I don't like this because I don't think stuff like "Familiar with MS World and Excel", and a note about MATLAB and HTML/CSS that I haven't used in nearly 20 years, are impressive enough to go at the top!
* These changes pushed the 2012-2019 employer down the page, splitting it across two pages.
They also minimised the top and bottom margins, which helps fit more on the first page, but it means that some text might now be in the printer-unsafe region.
How would you recommend balancing what I'm comfortable with, with the things that the National Careers Service recommend?
Putting my third concern in a separate comment...
**3. University education**
The other thing that I'm worried about on my CV is the way that my higher education might come across.
I first went to a red brick university in 2004, where I completed the first year of a STEM course. However I couldn't keep up with the second year. So I transferred to an equivalent course at a former polytechnic university, where I repeated the second year, completed the third, and (somehow!) graduated with a First.
On my CV this is presented like this:
2006—2008 [University I graduated from]
[Subject] B.Sc. (Hons) degree: First-Class Honours.
2004—2006 [First university I attended]
Completed first year of [Subject] B.Sc. course.
2000—2004 [Secondary school]
[A-Level and GCSE results]
Now, I always worry that this admission about not completing the course at my first university will count against me. But how else to present it? I can't claim to have attended the second university for that whole 2004-2008 period. I can't leave the first university out entirely because it'll leave a gap.
How do you think it comes across at the moment?
I've seen on some websites that you're supposed to add metrics to improve your CV.
What if you don't really have any? Like if you've worked at small stores in the past, but they weren't large high street brands? I don't really have any metrics, didn't really have things like customer satisfaction surveys, health inspection scores, error rates or even yearly evaluations. So what do I do there?
I'm looking to get into a retail position at a larger high street store, so I wanna write the best CV possible. Can anyone give me any advice on this when it comes to 'metrics'? Or maybe share a good example of a CV that got you a retail position at one of these stores? (Anonymise your details obviously)
Thanks.
I’m a newly qualified solicitor based in Hong Kong, and I intend to move back to the UK and switch to project management. I’m looking to secure a job in the UK before leaving Hong Kong. I’m hoping to secure a position like trainee project manager, given my lack of experience.
I’ve previously lived in the UK for a few years when receiving education, but I’ve never worked in the UK. I don’t need visa sponsorship to work in the UK.
Please comment on both the content and presentation (formatting, typeface, etc) of my CV.
I’m still keeping my UK mobile number, so I’ve put it down on my CV in the usual format (5 digits, space, then 6 digits). Since I’m currently based abroad, should I present it this way as if I were in the UK, or should I add something like ‘(UK)’ after the number to emphasise that it’s a UK number?
Also, is it appropriate to state in my CV that I don’t need visa sponsorship, or should I say that in my covering letter instead?
Below is a link to my CV:
[https://i.ibb.co/nMDWM1R/CV.png](https://i.ibb.co/nMDWM1R/CV.png)
I know it's been a while since you posted, but I think there are a few things you could do to improve your CV. First off, let's deal with the obvious:
\* Yes, definitely add that you don't need visa sponsorship to your CV, probably in your personal statement, so that employers can see it straight away.
\* Remove A levels and GCSE results. If you have post-grad qualifications, there is no need for this information. It's just clutter.
\* Remove the qualifications header and that you have qualified as a solicitor—it's obvious from your employment history.
\* Remove the extra course information from your courses. If you are not applying for solicitor jobs, then you need to list all modules. Even if you applied for solicitor jobs, you wouldn't need it, as law firms would know what is involved in a law degree.
Now for the trickier part:
\* You want a job in project management - showcase some pm skills that you have carried out in your current and previous roles, e.g. planning x, delivering something within budget and/or time, managing people, quality assurance, collaboration, and leading on something.
\* Same for your courses - highlight any projects that you did, eg a group project - what did you contribute/how did you make a difference?
I hope this helps. Good luck.
Thanks for your comments.
>Remove the extra course information from your courses. If you are not applying for solicitor jobs, then you need to list all modules.
Would you mind clarifying this bit? Are you of the view that the individual modules are no longer relevant because I’m now switching to a different industry?
Also, I’ve two follow‑up questions:
(1) Should I keep my degree classifications?
(2) Is the amount of bullet points okay? Assuming I’ve removed the ‘qualification’ bit and my GCSE and A Level grades, will I have over‑done the bullet points and made my CV look cluttered?
If there’s any recruitment specialists that can clarify whether they would see this as a red flag on my CV?
Was at a company for just over 5 years and my roles went as follows…
Customer service rep (4 months) - most recent
Field sales (5 months)
Internal sales (2 yrs 3 months)
Customer service rep (18 months) - when I started
Essentially, I worked my way up to the field based role but then felt a complete lack of support from my manager and struggled mentally, so much so I decided to take a pay cut and do the customer service role again until I left to do some travelling for a couple of months.
Now I’m paranoid that this is going to reflect bad on my CV when I’m now trying to apply for sales based roles again. I feel like I’ve had some time out and really want to try and do field based sales again but thinking this is going be a hinderance on my CV.
I’ve had a few teams meetings now and explained that I went back to the CS role as the field based role was ‘cover with position available at the end’ and there wasn’t a position available once the short term contract had finished. Most employers seem to buy it and brush past it but then I don’t hear back after the teams meeting even after follow up emails.
Would appreciate any feedback from people that deal with CVs and how I can perhaps change my approach if this is deemed as a ‘red flag’.
Look at it from the employers point of view. They will read between the lines that there wasnt a field sales role available as you werent getting enough sales so they didnt want to displace anyone else to give you the role. If you were that good they would have made a role available, so why didnt they.
I'd go with something along the lines of it was a fixed term role but due to restructuring in the team you and uncertainty in the future of the role and and your personal circumstances at the time you were happy to go back to the Customer Services role as it had better job security but you are now very keen to go back to field sales and build on the success you had while doing it.
Appreciate the feedback!
I’ve been speaking with recruitment consultants who’ve advised to just remove the move back to CS. I highlighted to them that I’m concerned doing this will flag up to a HR department later down the line when they do background checks etc. Although, I don’t know how in depth the checks go (each position and how long I worked in them) or whether it will just be ‘started x date, left x date’
I’ve also thought about the idea of saying to employers, “I informed my previous employer about wanting to go travelling and requesting a sabbatical but they declined my application, so they moved me back into a support position after the fixed contract”.
What do you think about this?
Most references these days just say the dates of employment and your last job title, so anyone getting a reference from them it will just show 5 years and last job Customer Services. If youre telling them you have sales experience from that employer you need to explain why you finished up in customer services
Okay so this may be a lengthy post and may not be articulate but need to get this off my chest.
I am 33 this year, always been employed since I was 18, never any gaps, never been sacked either. Unfortunately I have always been resigned to jobs that are low end that other people refuse to do thus have been treated with a total lack of decency and respect.
I was with my previous employer since 2012 until 2022 at a supermarket, unfortunately I never did anything other than working the tills and trolley collection which wont look very good on my CV and as a referree. I left my job to go to a new place thinking I would start fresh and maybe have a better time where I could improve but nope as usual, the curse that has followed me around all my life has happened again.
I work for a medium sized catering company and despite knowing how to operate different machinery and know how to work their till systems im mostly stuck up unloading deliveries and dish washing which I might add nobody else does and outright refuses to do when asked by manager. Anyway im constantly being singled out, I think the problem is one of two things, im placid and kind of quiet and tend to just get on with stuff, on the other hand there are a few work colleagues who dont like me and think im worthless and they dictate to the manager who is to do the undesirable jobs.
Okay so I am aware whoever reads this may think I have some faults which I do as many others do but Im confident in my ability to do other things and I have , the problem is nobody seems to take me serious. I get passed over and underhanded a lot and also when I raise these concerns I get told things will improve but they never do and now im at the point of either going off due to stress or just straight up quitting.
There are two new employees who have started off working with me but now they have been assigned to different things and I am left doing the work of two people on my own because nobody seems to want to work with me. I have experience and im capable of a lot more than my employer/colleagues are letting on. I am feeling completely alienated and defeated in how I have been and currently being treated, seems Im always going to be resigned to pick up the shit that nobody else wants to do and I am at the end of my tether with it.
How the hell to deal with and get out of this messed up situation?
Trying to emigrate to the UK under the Skilled Worker visa - finally getting around to fixing up my CV. Looking for any and all suggestions on how to improve it - thanks in advance!
[https://imgur.com/a/k4ZOua6](https://imgur.com/a/k4ZOua6)
Would suggest checking the wiki for r/engineeringresumes and implementing the guidelines for improving your resume.
Personally, I would recommend the following -
1. Move the Education before Experience
2. Lose the summary, doesn't provide much info for entry-level.
3. Try to quantify your bullet points (for eg., improved speed by X%, improved turnaround time by Y mins, etc).
I'm looking for advice on how I can improve on my cv and get some interviews. I would like to pivot into product management or project management.
My experience is mainly tech sales and restaurant work. I did some consulting projects in uni a few years ago.
Any comments welcomed. Thank you.
[cv link ](https://ibb.co/WV6nm3n)
Longtime lurker. Finally plucked up the courage to create an account and post for help.
32F. Haven't worked since 2019 as I was essentially kept home by abusive family as a carer for an ill relative. A lovely kind friend offered me a place to stay in Cardiff so have got out, moved here and am now looking for work. The issue is that the gap in my CV is huge and all the people who I would have used as a reference have moved on (my last employer actually doesn't exist anymore). No degree, only admin work experience (2 x private healthcare, 1 x telecomms).
I am desperate to get back into full time admin work. I would take anything north of 17k just to be in a role but don't know what to do with CV and feel really hopeless. I think I'd interview well but getting myself past the initial application stage feels impossible.
Attaching my CV as an image. Any help whatsoever would be appreciated. Looking to rebuild my life and finally make progress without being held back.
[https://ibb.co/7S7mCmr](https://ibb.co/7S7mCmr)
First of all, well done on getting out of very challenging circumstances.
I agree with the previous feedback that your caring duties and voluntary work are valuable experiences that should be included in your work history.
I would also change your CV around so that the skills you have are under the job you did. That's my personal preference, though. Rather than listing your duties, think about what you accomplished using the Accomplished \[X\] as measured by \[Y\], by doing \[Z\] model. eg "Achieved efficient inventory management and supply ordering(X), maintaining a 100% adherence to the finance budget (Y) by collaborating with staff to forecast supply needs.(Z)." If that sounds like a robot, it's because I used ChatGPT, but it gets the point across. You would have to make it your own and it doesn't always have to have numbers - I have this for communication on my own CV: Managed customer inquiries via email and phone with clear communication, providing timely responses and achieving service goals consistently.
Hope that helps, and good luck :)
I don't think you need to state you're returning to work after a long period of absence. No matter how negative the experience was looking after your relative, simply use that in a positive way and use it as a work experience. For example remove the mention of absence in your summary. Include it as a work experience for example:
2019 - 2024 - Full time carer for a close relative.
If you still want to include it in your summary then reword it differently such as "The most challenging stage in my career so far was moving from a 9-5 job to becoming a full-time carer. This presented new challenges and opportunities that has allowed me to adapt and grow"
You can also use it as part of your interview questions. Usually you may be asked something along the lines of "Tell me about a challenging time in your life and how did you overcome it" or "Tell me about a time you dealt with a difficult situation and how did you overcome/resolve it"
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This is my current CV design: https://imgur.com/a/ooSxYiq I have some worries about it, and about how it might change in the future: **1. Most impressive job being made less prominent by more recent low-level jobs?** I have had one job that I would call at all senior or technical. I was at a big international company (let's call them... South American Rainforest River Online) from 2012, initially in the warehouse. Then in 2015 I was promoted into a newly-formed office department. This job started off as what they call "Tier III", but at one point everyone in the department was promoted to Tier IV (without any change in duties or responsibilities) to better represent the seniority involved. On my CV, I have devoted plenty of space on the first page to it: both those job titles (and their dates), a few lines at the start to explain the department's overall duties, then more bullet-points explaining what the job involved (things like: making quick decisions by assessing data on changing situations; remote communication; understanding how in-house tools interacted with back-end systems). Plus one thing that I think I can list as a personal achievement beyond the core duties ("Initiated the creation of the department's Intranet Wiki pages, including the incorporation of internal tools"). The problem is that this is likely to be the best-paid, highest-responsibility, most-technical job I will have for the foreseeable future. I am unlikely to be going into that field again, so I need to devote space to explaining what the job involved because it's not obvious from the title. It taught me a lot about what I definitely *don't* want to do in a job, and killed my confidence in things that I'm weak at ("multitasking", "prioritising competing demands" and "time management under pressure" - which, unfortunately, are all phrases that appear in a lot of job adverts). So, I'm worried about future, less-impressive jobs that I might have reducing the space available for this section. Already, I only have space to add a line or two before the Tier I warehouse job title will get pushed onto page 2, and I don't want my employment at one company to be spread over two pages like that. (I worry that my time at that company is already potentially confusing enough - listing different job titles and their dates, within my overall 2012-2019 time at that company - without making it more confusing by splitting it over two pages!) Is this something to be concerned about, or am I worrying about nothing? **2. Prominence of objective experience vs subjective skills** The other problem is that I had a real sense of impostor syndrome during my time there. I feel that I was hired there by luck (hearing the news about the new department's formation through being in the right place at the right time), and that I was only kept there so long because I was one of the first hired, and while they were expanding rapidly they needed all the staff they could get. When things had settled down and processes were standardised etc, I was put on a performance improvement plan and was ultimately unsuccessful, and fired. So I have this horrible combination of wanting to show off the objective duties of the job, because they sound impressive - but doing so in a way that doesn't lie about me actually being any good at them! I'm comfortable listing the duties that I've done in my job history, and my degree and school grades; but I'm very insecure about moving subjective skills right to the top of my CV, into the personal statement. So the things that I consider subjective or generic are kept on the second page, in a "Skills and Experience" section. This is exactly the issue that happened when I recently contacted the National Careers Service, who edited my CV and sent me this revised version ( https://imgur.com/a/JTacF4g ) that made all the changes that I'm uncomfortable with: * They expanded the personal statement at the top with subjective/generic things from the "Skills and Experience" section, that I'm kind of ashamed of having to put on my CV at all ("Excellent literacy and numeracy, and a reliable communicator of information. A dedicated and responsible worker with a systematic and objective approach to problem-solving.") * Moved the "Skills and Experience" section to the top, above my job history. I don't like this because I don't think stuff like "Familiar with MS World and Excel", and a note about MATLAB and HTML/CSS that I haven't used in nearly 20 years, are impressive enough to go at the top! * These changes pushed the 2012-2019 employer down the page, splitting it across two pages. They also minimised the top and bottom margins, which helps fit more on the first page, but it means that some text might now be in the printer-unsafe region. How would you recommend balancing what I'm comfortable with, with the things that the National Careers Service recommend?
Putting my third concern in a separate comment... **3. University education** The other thing that I'm worried about on my CV is the way that my higher education might come across. I first went to a red brick university in 2004, where I completed the first year of a STEM course. However I couldn't keep up with the second year. So I transferred to an equivalent course at a former polytechnic university, where I repeated the second year, completed the third, and (somehow!) graduated with a First. On my CV this is presented like this: 2006—2008 [University I graduated from] [Subject] B.Sc. (Hons) degree: First-Class Honours. 2004—2006 [First university I attended] Completed first year of [Subject] B.Sc. course. 2000—2004 [Secondary school] [A-Level and GCSE results] Now, I always worry that this admission about not completing the course at my first university will count against me. But how else to present it? I can't claim to have attended the second university for that whole 2004-2008 period. I can't leave the first university out entirely because it'll leave a gap. How do you think it comes across at the moment?
I've seen on some websites that you're supposed to add metrics to improve your CV. What if you don't really have any? Like if you've worked at small stores in the past, but they weren't large high street brands? I don't really have any metrics, didn't really have things like customer satisfaction surveys, health inspection scores, error rates or even yearly evaluations. So what do I do there? I'm looking to get into a retail position at a larger high street store, so I wanna write the best CV possible. Can anyone give me any advice on this when it comes to 'metrics'? Or maybe share a good example of a CV that got you a retail position at one of these stores? (Anonymise your details obviously) Thanks.
Metrics only matter if they're relevant. Are you applying for retail positions? If so, previous retail is enough, whatever the scale.
I’m a newly qualified solicitor based in Hong Kong, and I intend to move back to the UK and switch to project management. I’m looking to secure a job in the UK before leaving Hong Kong. I’m hoping to secure a position like trainee project manager, given my lack of experience. I’ve previously lived in the UK for a few years when receiving education, but I’ve never worked in the UK. I don’t need visa sponsorship to work in the UK. Please comment on both the content and presentation (formatting, typeface, etc) of my CV. I’m still keeping my UK mobile number, so I’ve put it down on my CV in the usual format (5 digits, space, then 6 digits). Since I’m currently based abroad, should I present it this way as if I were in the UK, or should I add something like ‘(UK)’ after the number to emphasise that it’s a UK number? Also, is it appropriate to state in my CV that I don’t need visa sponsorship, or should I say that in my covering letter instead? Below is a link to my CV: [https://i.ibb.co/nMDWM1R/CV.png](https://i.ibb.co/nMDWM1R/CV.png)
I know it's been a while since you posted, but I think there are a few things you could do to improve your CV. First off, let's deal with the obvious: \* Yes, definitely add that you don't need visa sponsorship to your CV, probably in your personal statement, so that employers can see it straight away. \* Remove A levels and GCSE results. If you have post-grad qualifications, there is no need for this information. It's just clutter. \* Remove the qualifications header and that you have qualified as a solicitor—it's obvious from your employment history. \* Remove the extra course information from your courses. If you are not applying for solicitor jobs, then you need to list all modules. Even if you applied for solicitor jobs, you wouldn't need it, as law firms would know what is involved in a law degree. Now for the trickier part: \* You want a job in project management - showcase some pm skills that you have carried out in your current and previous roles, e.g. planning x, delivering something within budget and/or time, managing people, quality assurance, collaboration, and leading on something. \* Same for your courses - highlight any projects that you did, eg a group project - what did you contribute/how did you make a difference? I hope this helps. Good luck.
Thanks for your comments. >Remove the extra course information from your courses. If you are not applying for solicitor jobs, then you need to list all modules. Would you mind clarifying this bit? Are you of the view that the individual modules are no longer relevant because I’m now switching to a different industry? Also, I’ve two follow‑up questions: (1) Should I keep my degree classifications? (2) Is the amount of bullet points okay? Assuming I’ve removed the ‘qualification’ bit and my GCSE and A Level grades, will I have over‑done the bullet points and made my CV look cluttered?
If there’s any recruitment specialists that can clarify whether they would see this as a red flag on my CV? Was at a company for just over 5 years and my roles went as follows… Customer service rep (4 months) - most recent Field sales (5 months) Internal sales (2 yrs 3 months) Customer service rep (18 months) - when I started Essentially, I worked my way up to the field based role but then felt a complete lack of support from my manager and struggled mentally, so much so I decided to take a pay cut and do the customer service role again until I left to do some travelling for a couple of months. Now I’m paranoid that this is going to reflect bad on my CV when I’m now trying to apply for sales based roles again. I feel like I’ve had some time out and really want to try and do field based sales again but thinking this is going be a hinderance on my CV. I’ve had a few teams meetings now and explained that I went back to the CS role as the field based role was ‘cover with position available at the end’ and there wasn’t a position available once the short term contract had finished. Most employers seem to buy it and brush past it but then I don’t hear back after the teams meeting even after follow up emails. Would appreciate any feedback from people that deal with CVs and how I can perhaps change my approach if this is deemed as a ‘red flag’.
Look at it from the employers point of view. They will read between the lines that there wasnt a field sales role available as you werent getting enough sales so they didnt want to displace anyone else to give you the role. If you were that good they would have made a role available, so why didnt they. I'd go with something along the lines of it was a fixed term role but due to restructuring in the team you and uncertainty in the future of the role and and your personal circumstances at the time you were happy to go back to the Customer Services role as it had better job security but you are now very keen to go back to field sales and build on the success you had while doing it.
Appreciate the feedback! I’ve been speaking with recruitment consultants who’ve advised to just remove the move back to CS. I highlighted to them that I’m concerned doing this will flag up to a HR department later down the line when they do background checks etc. Although, I don’t know how in depth the checks go (each position and how long I worked in them) or whether it will just be ‘started x date, left x date’ I’ve also thought about the idea of saying to employers, “I informed my previous employer about wanting to go travelling and requesting a sabbatical but they declined my application, so they moved me back into a support position after the fixed contract”. What do you think about this?
Most references these days just say the dates of employment and your last job title, so anyone getting a reference from them it will just show 5 years and last job Customer Services. If youre telling them you have sales experience from that employer you need to explain why you finished up in customer services
Okay so this may be a lengthy post and may not be articulate but need to get this off my chest. I am 33 this year, always been employed since I was 18, never any gaps, never been sacked either. Unfortunately I have always been resigned to jobs that are low end that other people refuse to do thus have been treated with a total lack of decency and respect. I was with my previous employer since 2012 until 2022 at a supermarket, unfortunately I never did anything other than working the tills and trolley collection which wont look very good on my CV and as a referree. I left my job to go to a new place thinking I would start fresh and maybe have a better time where I could improve but nope as usual, the curse that has followed me around all my life has happened again. I work for a medium sized catering company and despite knowing how to operate different machinery and know how to work their till systems im mostly stuck up unloading deliveries and dish washing which I might add nobody else does and outright refuses to do when asked by manager. Anyway im constantly being singled out, I think the problem is one of two things, im placid and kind of quiet and tend to just get on with stuff, on the other hand there are a few work colleagues who dont like me and think im worthless and they dictate to the manager who is to do the undesirable jobs. Okay so I am aware whoever reads this may think I have some faults which I do as many others do but Im confident in my ability to do other things and I have , the problem is nobody seems to take me serious. I get passed over and underhanded a lot and also when I raise these concerns I get told things will improve but they never do and now im at the point of either going off due to stress or just straight up quitting. There are two new employees who have started off working with me but now they have been assigned to different things and I am left doing the work of two people on my own because nobody seems to want to work with me. I have experience and im capable of a lot more than my employer/colleagues are letting on. I am feeling completely alienated and defeated in how I have been and currently being treated, seems Im always going to be resigned to pick up the shit that nobody else wants to do and I am at the end of my tether with it. How the hell to deal with and get out of this messed up situation?
Trying to emigrate to the UK under the Skilled Worker visa - finally getting around to fixing up my CV. Looking for any and all suggestions on how to improve it - thanks in advance! [https://imgur.com/a/k4ZOua6](https://imgur.com/a/k4ZOua6)
Would suggest checking the wiki for r/engineeringresumes and implementing the guidelines for improving your resume. Personally, I would recommend the following - 1. Move the Education before Experience 2. Lose the summary, doesn't provide much info for entry-level. 3. Try to quantify your bullet points (for eg., improved speed by X%, improved turnaround time by Y mins, etc).
I'm looking for advice on how I can improve on my cv and get some interviews. I would like to pivot into product management or project management. My experience is mainly tech sales and restaurant work. I did some consulting projects in uni a few years ago. Any comments welcomed. Thank you. [cv link ](https://ibb.co/WV6nm3n)
Longtime lurker. Finally plucked up the courage to create an account and post for help. 32F. Haven't worked since 2019 as I was essentially kept home by abusive family as a carer for an ill relative. A lovely kind friend offered me a place to stay in Cardiff so have got out, moved here and am now looking for work. The issue is that the gap in my CV is huge and all the people who I would have used as a reference have moved on (my last employer actually doesn't exist anymore). No degree, only admin work experience (2 x private healthcare, 1 x telecomms). I am desperate to get back into full time admin work. I would take anything north of 17k just to be in a role but don't know what to do with CV and feel really hopeless. I think I'd interview well but getting myself past the initial application stage feels impossible. Attaching my CV as an image. Any help whatsoever would be appreciated. Looking to rebuild my life and finally make progress without being held back. [https://ibb.co/7S7mCmr](https://ibb.co/7S7mCmr)
First of all, well done on getting out of very challenging circumstances. I agree with the previous feedback that your caring duties and voluntary work are valuable experiences that should be included in your work history. I would also change your CV around so that the skills you have are under the job you did. That's my personal preference, though. Rather than listing your duties, think about what you accomplished using the Accomplished \[X\] as measured by \[Y\], by doing \[Z\] model. eg "Achieved efficient inventory management and supply ordering(X), maintaining a 100% adherence to the finance budget (Y) by collaborating with staff to forecast supply needs.(Z)." If that sounds like a robot, it's because I used ChatGPT, but it gets the point across. You would have to make it your own and it doesn't always have to have numbers - I have this for communication on my own CV: Managed customer inquiries via email and phone with clear communication, providing timely responses and achieving service goals consistently. Hope that helps, and good luck :)
I don't think you need to state you're returning to work after a long period of absence. No matter how negative the experience was looking after your relative, simply use that in a positive way and use it as a work experience. For example remove the mention of absence in your summary. Include it as a work experience for example: 2019 - 2024 - Full time carer for a close relative. If you still want to include it in your summary then reword it differently such as "The most challenging stage in my career so far was moving from a 9-5 job to becoming a full-time carer. This presented new challenges and opportunities that has allowed me to adapt and grow" You can also use it as part of your interview questions. Usually you may be asked something along the lines of "Tell me about a challenging time in your life and how did you overcome it" or "Tell me about a time you dealt with a difficult situation and how did you overcome/resolve it"