Tom Mursell

Yes you read it right, 7 year-olds are to receive career advice under new Gov’t proposals. You can just imagine it now; little 7 year-old Johnny updating his CV after sitting his Year 2 SATs! The report ‘Quality, Choice and Aspiration – A strategy for young people’s information, advice and guidance’ has flagged up the need for better careers information, advice & guidance (IAG) highlighting that it should be delivered within the Key Stage 2 curriculum. The reason? “…because decisions made at the point of transition from primary to secondary school can have a real impact on the direction young people take in their early years of secondary school”.

But should it really be delivered as young as 7?

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This is the first of what will be a regular feature of common CV mistakes, what they are, how to avoid them and how to communicate ‘properly’ with employers. The first common CV mistakes article (how exciting!) is on how to express yourself by actually saying something rather than just writing words.

We’ve all been there and so have you if the following looks familiar…

I am a hardworking, enthusiastic, motivated, good communicator who works well in a team…

In fact, in my opinion that’s why looking at someone else’s CV is not the best way forward. By all means take the basics & format from it, but don’t copy…and seriously – don’t use Microsoft Word’s synonyms tool else you might end up saying something you don’t mean. Using the word ‘aroused’ instead of ‘motivated’ will most probably go down like a ton of bricks (depending on the recruiter of course – and the job!).

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