Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Net That Job: How to Write a CV Online
This course helped participants to create a 21st century, digital curriculum vitae.
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
Mr Willie McGuire
Senior University Teacher
The University of Glasgow
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore the different forms of CV
- Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of a range of CV formats
- Assess the degree of technology to be used in the CV
- Debate the issues involved in the construction of CVs online
- Match CVs to job specifications
- Assess the degree of technology to be used in the CV
- Create a CV online
Syllabus
- Defining CVs;
- The main components of a CV: photographs, personal profiles, video profiles, education, work experience, volunteering, and future plans;
- Making effective use of the experience of real employers by putting yourself in the position of the employer;
- Examining the top five personality types sought by employers;
- Developing transferable skills;
- Learning how to communicate enthusiasm through a CV and through the deployment of words that convey energy;
- Developing powers of discrimination to identify good and bad CVs;
- Matching the CV to the job using job outlines, job advert analysis skills, and refining company research skills;
- Matching the CV to the job by determining how much technology is appropriate for specific jobs;
- Adding technology successfully to your CV;
- Creating the finished CV online;
- Evaluating the work of others.
Issued on 17th August 2016
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