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Writing and Revising CVs | Managing pressure at work | Motivating your staff | Providing ‘Excellent’ Service

Writing and Revising CVs

A half day workshop for everyone who wants to have an up to date and ‘attractive to read ‘ CV ! 

Objectives

This half-day workshop will provide guidelines on how to write or revise Curriculum Vitae using a modern, relevant style, in clear business English

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the workshop participants will:

• Understand the essentials of writing a CV in a modern, relevant style which will gain immediate interest.
• Be able to use a layout and include content which will give the best impression of experience, qualifications, transferable skills and potential.
• Have critiqued constructively a current CV, with view to making enhancements.
• Understand the need to link material in the CV with the requirements of the post for which you are applying
• Consider the essentials of a short biographic note based on information given in the CV
• Support participants to identify skills, attributes, qualities as well as achievements, for including in a CV
• Have developed a Personal Action Plan to use in future job applications

Method

The workshop will focus on the practical skills of CV writing.

The session includes exercises, tutored input and opportunity to review, revise and update an existing CV.

Before attending the workshop those attending are asked to look at their current CV, consider how it might be improved and bring this to the workshop on a memory stick or pencil.

Workshop can be run on demand for groups of 3 or more!

Call Chris Phillips on 01983 867805 or email Chris@resultsthroughpeople.co.uk

Agenda

0930 – 1300              Tea / coffee on arrival
Or
1330 – 1700    WELCOME AND OBJECTIVES OF THE WORKSHOP
                                     Personal objectives identified

                                     BACKGROUND TO SUCCESSFUL CV WRITING

• The use of clear Business English,
• Effective layouts, modern style.
• Ensuring we give the best impression of our
  Qualifications, experience and transferable skills.
• “Examples of different CV models”

CREATING A CV
The basics to include.

Understanding our own ‘unique selling points‘

CONSTRUCTIVELY CRITIQUING AN EXISTING CV

Working in small groups, participants will have the opportunity of enhancing and developing what has been already written in an existing CV

Being able to adapt a CV to a specific job application

Writing a biographic note based on a current CV

Action Planning: participants will make their own personal action notes of points which they will include in writing or revising an existing CV.

Key points from the discussion to apply in everyday CV writing. 

1300 or 1700             Close of workshop

Managing pressure at work

• Learn to unwind - allow time at the end of a busy day
• Sleep - take as much as your body needs
• Take regular holidays - away-days, week-end breaks
• Enjoy hobbies - a different activity outside of work
• Try massage - Shiatsu, Aromatherapy, Indian Head Massage
• Use meditation - singularly, or in groups
• Try Yoga or Tai-Chi : stretching and relaxing
• Take regular light exercise, aerobic activity
• Try calming breathing
• Smile and laugh ..... both help reduce stress!

Motivating your staff

• Give feedback and encouragement
• Catch people doing something right and say so!
• Brief regularly on progress and how your business is doing
• Build on success
• Provide opportunity for growth in experience and knowledge
• Always be prepared to listen. Where needed, give people time to talk to you
• Encourage ideas and suggestions for doing things differently or better.
• Recognise that not everyone will have the same view of work as you but everyone has something good to contribute.
• Make sure your staff take the holidays and breaks to which they are entitled!
  

Providing ‘Excellent’ Service

• Remember ‘excellence’ is about delighting, providing the extra something
• Always emphasise what you can do, not what you can’t
• Use clients as a source of good ideas: pass these on.  Use these ideas
• Remember points of detail – they get noticed
• Think ahead … put yourself in your customer’s shoes
• Do something or provide something different tomorrow
• Never compromise on quality
• Today’s customer will recommend your service to others

 With acknowledgement Tom Peters, A Passion for Excellence