ive decided to try applying at dick smith while i look for another farming job, yet ive run into a major obstacle, it seems that these city folk want a CV! well so far ive got 1 page of crap, i think i can write the job application reasonably well, but what can i beef ul my CV with?
Keep your CV slim. People hate reading loads of crap. Unless there is only one applicant, but then your CV doesn't matter.
so far i have this, as well as 1 referee. ____________________________________________ Vital Statistics: Date of Birth: 30th May 1990 Citizenship: New Zealand, Canadian, British Address: * ********** Road, Southbridge Phone: (03)****-*** Marital Status: Single Spoken languagese: English, Japanese, Esperanto Education: Jan 2001 – April 2006 Ellesmere College, Leeston NCEA Level 1 • 9 credits in English • 17 credits in Mathematics• 18 credits in Japanese• 18 credits in Science• 8 credits in Physical Education• 8 credits in HistoryNCEA Level 2 • 19 credits in Information Management September 2006 – Ongoing Agriculture ITO course at NCEA level 3 Work History: Nine months full time work in the dairy industry, following from four months of part time work on the same farm. Also various work in the vicinity of computer technician for local residences and businesses; building, maintaining and servicing computers. Other Qualifications and Achievements: Full Drivers License 10 week course in advanced HTML & Javascript 10 week course in QBasic
as long as you get a good reference i dont see too much trouble with that, a CV is different from a personal statement remember Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Why don't you stick to farming, you'll be a happier man. Use the time to seek another farming job rather than take that damned demeaning city job where you have to put up with those hateful fuckin' city folks! Baron Max
Farming and IT, lol, careful you could be mistaken for a South African Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I don't want to know whether your work was full-time or part-time. I want to know what you did. If you shoveled cow pats or washed down stalls, say so. It shows me that you have the discipline to do hard work that is beneath you, and every job involves a good deal of that. I don't want a guy who complains because his assignments aren't challenging enough; somebody has to do them. "Computer technician" is something that should stand out. Don't be so generic here. Give me some examples of specific things you did that you're proud of. Emphasize the commercial gigs. Did you put together a system for a new business that helped them get going, or one for an existing business that helped them expand or trim costs? Were they happy with what you did, were the problems minimal and typical for the type of installation? Did you set up networks? Databases? Windows, Unix, OS/X? You should be able to list one of them as a happy customer. I may learn more about you by talking to them than I can by reading your resumé. Have you got an example of some software you built, even as a class project? I don't want to look at the code, but I'd like to know what your program does. I need to know: what you have done, what you can do, and what you want to do. The companies I've consulted for have dozens of "computer technicians" and most of them are specialists. You have to stand out. If you're not a specialist yet, what specialty do your interest, aptitude and experience make you well suited for? There are a few broad categories in I.T. and it matters a lot which one is of interest to you. If you're out of middle school you should already know whether you want to work with hardware or software, and you should even be able to break it down to one level beyond that. If you can't do that it tells me that you're not really interested in I.T., you just want the money. That would have been okay back in my day because they were so desperate for people who could understand computers that they didn't care whether we liked them. That's not true any more. If your interests lie more in agriculture than I.T., I won't be much help, but my general suggestions about your resumé are still valid. Say what you've accomplished and what you'd like to accomplish, not how many hours you worked. Good luck.
well thats my plan, but im having trouble finding any jobs locally, so i figured id get a 9-5 techie job to keep the money rolling in while i look.
i was thinking of putting that into the application, rather than the CV, something along the lines of 'over spring my endurance was tested with 16+ hour days, not helped by a conflict between the calf rearer and the manager which meant i was often having to take on a large number of their tasks. etc, etc...'
