Today we had the privilege to have Andy Gillman as a guest speaker from the MOD Education Outreach programme. This session revolved around similar topic that we covered in previous lesson. Andy shared his experience and knowledge regarding important topics like building a good CV, planning and being prepared for interviews.He gave us useful tips on how we should prepare our self for job interviews and mistakes we should not make.To help us understand much better we did funny role plays and also identified mistakes in the sample cover letters and job registrations forms.It was actually surprising to know how many silly and careless mistakes people make.I could relate to what Andy was saying as i remember one of the mistakes i made that is not being well prepared.I had applied for a sales job and i got a call the next day which i did not expect and it was a phone interview.It went really bad and i had difficulties answering the questions as i was not prepared at all so of course the consequence was that i did not get the job.Therefore i personally feel that one of the most important factor is to prepare yourself well, do the research about the job or company your applying to, get ready for possible questions they might ask and also double check the CV or cover letter for spelling errors, wrong information etc.
I feel i have received valuable information from Andy which will help me to progress in my career.
Below i have attached some useful links.
1.10 CV mistakes to avoide
http://www.totaljobs.com/careers-advice/cvs-and-applications/10-cv-mistakes-to-avoid

2.10 steps for a successful CV
http://www.totaljobs.com/careers-advice/cvs-and-applications/successful-cv

3.sample of a Good and Bad CV
http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/goodbadCV.htm
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