Does your CV pitch at the right level
What do you mean by that I am frequently surprised that people don’t know the answer to that question.
It actually falls into two categories
Senior Managers who are still formatting their CVs in a way that is more suitable for graduates for example by putting education before Career History or who describe their CAREER HISTORY as EMPLOYMENT or even WORK EXPERIENCE. Many Senior Managers also include inappropriate descriptions which they should have outgrown. They may for example say that they are ’punctual’ or describe other personal attributes which are more appropriate for a school leaver.
At the other end of the spectrum there are graduates or people who are just starting out who ‘big-up’ their achievements. Believe it or not I actually had a graduate who had only done part time and holiday work who described himself as a ‘manager’ The problem with this is that there is nowhere to go. How can you aspire to career developent if you have arrived at management level even before you’ve started