Is your CV really the first thing you need to check?

If you’re a finalist, could this be you?

Is your CV really the first thing you need to check

By Jim Reali, Careers Advisor for GEES

Recently at one of my advice desk appointments I met a final year GEES undergraduate who told me that they had booked the appointment because they wanted someone from Careers Network to review their CV. Let’s call the student “Bob”.

When I’m looking at a CV, it always helps to know what industry sector it’s intended for, what it is that appeals to the student about that sector and how they intend to use the CV, so I asked Bob to tell me about this “bigger picture”.

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Choices, choices, applications

Pete Connolly, Finalist Physics

As if final year students don’t have enough on their plates with dissertations, research projects or, as in my case, final year laboratory projects, this is time at which students must decide what exactly they intend to do with the rest of their lives. In the majority of cases this requires, in one form or another, combinations of applications and interviews.