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Resilience in Today's Marketplace Seminar - Thursday 4th March @ BPP, Holborn

This evening seminar kicked off at 18.30 last Thursday with Sue Hill and Lesley Robinson asking everyone why they were there. A lot of people were clearly hedging their bets, as challenges were heading their way: out-sourcing, restructuring, mergers, and re-deployment all mentioned as current issues. For some people, they were looking to climb the career ladder, move sector, or change career completely, but needed to update their CV.

Sue recommends that people should always have an up-to-date CV and should regularly monitor and update it - as you never know what is around the corner. So, the speakers started by looking at the key things to include on CVs - everything from the wording to the layout; length; format and what not to include! Everyone then discussed their own CVs in a group. This really highlighted how much easier it is to criticise someone else's CV than to objectively look at your own - so get someone else to read yours!

We went on to look at common interview techniques, include competency-based questions, taking it in turns to interview each other on certain achievements or projects. This certainly illustrated those people who say too much in response to interview questions - and those who perhaps don't say enough.

The evening concluded with wine and nibbles, and Sue ran a short one-to-one clinic for those people with particular questions. Everyone took away useful tips and more confidence to make their next application - whenever that may be...

Full post as published by The BIALL Blog on March 08, 2010 (boomark / email).