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Applying for a job

Check out below our expert advice on how to get a job including improving your CV, and networking your way to work.

Our new Lockdown handout ‘How to make your first CV’ is now available in the following languages:

  • How to make your first CV – English version
  • How to make your first CV – Arabic version
  • How to write a CV when you have not worked – Farsi version
  • How to make your first CV – Punjabi version
  • How to make your first CV – Tamil version
  • How to make your first CV – Urdu version

Have a look at our Lockdown video here

Job application resources

  • What do you do with a CV?
  • 10 Rules for your CV
  • At home, but still learning
  • CV checklist
  • Network your way to work 
  • How to write a Cover letter\
  • Verbs to use in your CV
  • Adjectives to use in your CV
  • Useful adjectives and phrases

CV TEMPLATE

Name Address Email Phone and mobile  _____________________________________________________ PERSONAL PROFILE A personal profile should be around 3-4 sentences long. It needs to show that you understand the job description and can do the job.  Your profile should show that you have read the advertisement, understand what kind of person they are looking for, and that you…

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Top 10 rules for your CV

Get on the right path to a job with these top CV Tips says Gosia Banach, parent Employment Adviser A CV has one function, to get you an interview with a particular employer. So make sure it sells you well. It has to show why YOU should get their JOB, so make sure your CV matches their requirements. Once you…

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CV checklist

Before you send off your CV, Have a cup of coffee and let Mercedes Grant ask you five questions… Does your CV make a convincing case that YOU are the best person for the job Have you checked that your CV matches the advert. Have you checked the spelling and grammar – including getting another person to read it…

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At home – but still learning!

‘You can still add to your CV when you are at home looking after children” Says Mercedes Grant of Belina If, like me, you spent time at home brining up children, you can worry that employers  will be concerned because you have nothing to put on your CV for those years. I say – own that…

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How to write a Cover letter

The Rules Should be one side of A4 Personally addressed to the relevant individual Clearly states the job you are applying for Includes the main reason why you the best person for the job. Shows you are interested in their organisation Click for an example of how to write a Cover letter

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Verbs to use in your CV

Accomplished Achieved Administered Advised Analysed Approved Applied Arranged Assessed Assisted AttainedBought Budgeted BuiltCared Calculated Captured Centralised Checked Cleaned Collected Combined Completed Composed Conceived Conducted Consolidated Consulted Controlled Converted Cooked Coordinated Corrected Created Cut Decreased Defined Delivered Demonstrated Designed Determined Developed Devised Diagnosed Directed Distributed Documented Doubled Drew Drove Earned Edited Eliminated Encouraged Engaged Engineered Ensured…

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Why I Work

Everyone has their own reason Parents tell Belina’s Mercedes Grant that they work for lots of reasons: Part of my job is to follow up with parents after a course so I get to hear what they are saying about why they are working. To be better off ‘Staying on benefits was a one way…

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Network Your Way into a new Job 

‘It’s not about what you know, but who you know’ Says Lauren Jackson – expert networker We have all heard this saying, but fail to fully grasp the power and reach of YOUR very own network. Gaining employment through networking has been a basic job searching method since …well since the beginning of time really.…

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