Your Value in the Job Market
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When your CV arrives it will be looked at by people who can tell at a glance what it signifies. Make sure it sends them the right message and then reinforces it in a totally professional way.
Over many years as a CV author I have come across one core distinction between people with exceptional careers and everyone else. The most effective ones among us generally take action when the time is right and they are somehow ready. Such people can prosper even if they start life without much in the way of qualifications. Sometimes they have been loyal to one or few employers. They have proven themselves and been offered chances, which they have been well placed to take advantage of. Their approach to career issues reflects this personal maturity and they are clear about objectives, dignified in their contacts, impressive to others, able to ask the right questions and get the desired responses...
The rest of the population, by contrast, is never quite ready and always scrambling against a negative influence. Some have huge ideas, beyond their ability to deliver; some are always caught off guard by take-overs, redundancies, movements in the marketplace; some have become complacent; many are angry at their own lack of achievement and their job applications contain a sulky righteousness that growls quietly through the text as a hidden sub-plot... and some are just hoping their distance learning MBA will fix the problem!
