A recent study into the standard of British CVs has highlighted just how common spelling and grammar errors are.
Recruitment firm IntaPeople, examined 600 CVs and discovered that nearly 30% of them contained major gaffes. Employers are looking for people who show attention to detail and bad spelling and punctuation does nothing for your chances of getting a job.
Peter Panayotou, a CV expert who founded The Write Stuff, insists that poor proofreading can make all the difference between success and failure and suggests that a second pair of eyes will pick up on things you’ve missed.
A new recruitment portal has been set up by staffbay.com to help candidates that get turned down at the CV stage. Employers spend an average 10 to 15 seconds looking at each CV and staffbay aims to revolutionise the recruitment process and open up interaction between potential employers and candidates.
The founder of the company, Tony Wilmot, said the employment market has become more fluid over the past 10 to 15 years and it’s hard for candidates to summarise all their previous roles and achievements in a two-sized CV.
Sites like LinkedIn and Facebook are becoming more popular and people can see the benefit of having an online profile. It’s therefore time for the job market to embrace the way candidates would like to sell themselves, he continued.
Users of staffbay.com can upload a “CMe”, as opposed to a CV, with certificates, personal profiles and video. This means that candidates, who do not necessarily have a strong CV, can shine in other ways. The site also gives employers greater search ability to connect candidates to jobs and lets them interact with candidates online throughout the entire process.
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