14th September 2006, 06:29 PM
We are a small unit and I don't have the time or inclination to design a form. But 1man is right, the variability of CVs is tremendous. Some are highly irritating, some don't even spell my name correctly, some are clearly round-robin speculative exercises. These are all easy to spot and reject.
The survivors from this first round are however quite illuminating about a person's character and personality. What they have chosen to include?, what they have chosen to omit?, what order have they put it in?, do they have any sense of document layout and graphic design or are they completely cack-handed? do they have any creativity? can they spell or understand grammar? (amazingly not even in this lazy age of spell checkers)... and so-on. All such things are very revealing, and most 'facts' on a CV are easily verifiable by ringing up referees and previous employers.
"So when X says he worked for you from August to September does that mean two months experience or does that mean from 29th August to 3rd September?"
I also have great fun in seeing who has the most outlandish hobby - cheese rolling, or Alpenhorn champion for example.
In a larger organisation having a form makes sense from an administrative point of view, although the variability of jobs on offer (eg. with a local authority or with EH) does make nonsense of some parts and inevitably everyone will have some blank spaces on a standard form.
The survivors from this first round are however quite illuminating about a person's character and personality. What they have chosen to include?, what they have chosen to omit?, what order have they put it in?, do they have any sense of document layout and graphic design or are they completely cack-handed? do they have any creativity? can they spell or understand grammar? (amazingly not even in this lazy age of spell checkers)... and so-on. All such things are very revealing, and most 'facts' on a CV are easily verifiable by ringing up referees and previous employers.
"So when X says he worked for you from August to September does that mean two months experience or does that mean from 29th August to 3rd September?"
I also have great fun in seeing who has the most outlandish hobby - cheese rolling, or Alpenhorn champion for example.
In a larger organisation having a form makes sense from an administrative point of view, although the variability of jobs on offer (eg. with a local authority or with EH) does make nonsense of some parts and inevitably everyone will have some blank spaces on a standard form.