Siltra CV Writer
Paper in Cape Town

Does your CV look like everyone else’s? What opportunities are you missing out on because your CV fails to distinguish you favourable from other candidates?Do you also grab the paper over coffee, circle a few positions, quickly update your CV (last looked at in 2000) and flood the market with it, then sit back and wonder why they don't hear from anybody plus blame the economy, the market, the 'agencies' and everybody else, but yourself, for not finding a job? Or worse still, spent hours uploading you CV on various jobsites, applying for 100’s of positions and then sit back and wait for the emails to pour in.Make sure your CV knock the socks of your potential employers.Whether it's just a quick touch up to your existing CV, a complete overhaul or a CV from scratch, I can help!!.

Nobody should ever underestimate the importance of a professional CV. Even with the digital age upon us, sending a copy of your CV is still the first step in the job seeking process. It is about showing your future worth to a potential employee. Keeping in line with social media long, detailed CVs are losing ground due to the fact that most other written communications are bite-size text messages or 140-character tweets. The compacting of messaging is already in high gear, so the CV must be focused and relevant. Your CV should be written and designed so that essential information can be read in a quick glance. Long-winded, difficult to read CVs will most likely be discarded, which means an opportunity lost. Most CVs do not clearly and strongly state specific accomplishments and come across as too vague and general, and as a result the value the person has brought to each past employer is lost. The most common mistake is listing your duties (something that is normally copied from the job listing) instead of showing what impact you have had on the company. Let’s face it; most people are uncomfortable talking about their own achievements, so often they don’t even see it as achievements, only as something that they do on a daily basis.