Part of my job as a Human Resource officer is to advise people on job searching strategies and frankly people have been failing in this aspect. By now you get it: If you want to land an interview, let alone a job offer, you need a winning CV. Fortunately, you already have one and are fairly certain it's strong enough to put you a step ahead of the competition. Or so you think.
Not so fast. Sure you've got a knockout CV, but do you actually know how to use it? Unfortunately, most job seekers don't, as I came to realize a few days back. I got around three calls in one day from different people asking me if the CV they had placed over 6 months ago with our firm had yielded any results. My question to them was, had you called us within that period to ask about the position you were looking for? The answer of course was no they had not.
