Where’s Your CV?

If you’re in a job and you plan to stay there for at least the next year you may feel that you needn’t worry about your CV at the moment, but if your CV is looking tired and out of date, the odds are that your career might be starting to stagnate too.

Working in organisational development, meeting plenty of HR people and recruiters, we’re often asked by friends and acquaintances to give their CV’s a once over when they’re applying for new jobs.  It’s often at the last minute, with the CV having been written in a hurry.  We find that people can’t remember dates of employment or education and have no idea what achievements, experience and skills to include.

Why?

Because they haven’t thought about their employability since the last time they needed to find a job.

Yet people who view themselves and their skills as an asset to be leveraged throughout their career keep their CV’s up to date and regularly look to add new features and benefits to them.  This gives them a strong sense of employability, knowing that they have lots to offer an employer, whether that’s the organisation they’re currently working for, a new organisation, or themselves if they want to strike out alone.

These are the people who take the most positive approach to change in the workplace.  Knowing you have a strong CV and plenty to offer doesn’t mean you’re looking for a new job, but it does mean you’re ready for new opportunities, wherever they arise.

If you’re CV is starting to look tired or dated, make it a priority to update your details. Whilst you’re doing so, take a look at how well it meets your future needs and start planning to upgrade it with new skills and experiences.  It might make the job you’re in now a more exciting and motivating place to be.

Who to talk to?

If you would like to pick up on any of the themes in this article, please contact:

Claudine McClean
T: +44 (0) 1789 734333
E: claudinem@predaptive.com