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How to get rid of gap's in your CV

Do you have a CV with gaps in your employment history? Don’t worry, so do many other job hunters. Some gaps can be easily explained, while other normally longer gaps may not be so easy to explain.

The secret to writing a CV is to keep the CV positive, especially when explaining employment gaps. If you can not avoid the gap in employment, you should record an explanation rather than just leaving a long gap.

If you leave a gap, an employer reading your CV, will notice your employment gaps and may come to their own conclusions why you have the employment gaps.

How to get rid of gaps in employment.

1. On your employment history only record the years of employment rather than the day, month and year as this will quickly delete any small gaps of unemployment between jobs.

2. Record if you have had time off for becoming a parent or taking a gap year to travel-you can even record what skills and qualities you have gained from this experience that you can use in your new job.

3. If you have had a custodial sentence and completed any qualifications while in custody, you can record the qualifications and governing body. This will look like you have attended a training establishment. You don’t need to record criminal convictions on your CV, when completing an application form you have to answer honestly the question “do you have a criminal record” Remember with many industries you don not need to declare “spent Convictions” for more information visit the Nacro website.

4. Many people at one time throughout their career have a long term illness, leaving them with an employment gap. Explain that you have had an accident or illness and you are now completely recovered and ready for continuing with your career. I recently worked with a client who had recovered from cancer, while having treatment the client became a mentor for other cancer patients, from this he gain a wide range of skills that he could add to his CV.

5. Have you been unemployed for several years? Many job hunters find a large unemployment gap hard to explain. To overcome this type of employment gap you need to highlight any positive activities you undertaken, this could be voluntary work, attending a short course or a hobby that has given you transferable skills that will be useful to your next employer.

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Employment Opportunities

Job hunting is only hard when you don’t know how to find the job vacancies and employment opportunities. If you want to quickly increase the amount of job opportunities you can find:

1. First, use job search engines – the Internet is an important tool for job hunters. You can quickly find hundreds and thousands of job adverts by entering your job title and location into a job search engine. TIP * try inserting different job titles, as search engines are word sensitive.

2. Company WebPages – You won’t find many employers without a company webpage, in most cases companies will save money on job advertisements by advertising their own jobs on their own website. To find company recruitment WebPages, quickly Google “the company name” and “recruitment”

3. Speculative Applications – Don’t just wait for companies to advertise vacancies, show them you are interested in them and send a speculative letter along with your CV. Research has shown there is a 40% success rate using this approach. If you need to create a CV, use a CV writing service.

Tesco

"At Tesco, the philosophy behind Every Little Helps is at the very heart of everything we do. It's not just a marketing slogan, it's what makes us different." Source www.tesco-careers.com

Everyone has heard of Tesco, with it being the largest British retailer. In the UK it is hard to find yourself without a Tesco being a short drive away. Tesco started trading in the UK in 1924 and now has 2,362 UK stores employing 286, 394 employees.

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Tesco Jobs; With Tesco being one of the UKs largest employers, it’s not surprising that Tesco offer a wide range of skilled and low skilled job roles:

• Head Office
• Distribution
• Store
• Pharmacy
• Clothing
• Tesco Bank
• Tesco.com

What Tesco Career would suit you?

Tesco offer a wide range of jobs roles at a variety of levels and are keen to improve and develop their staff offering apprenticeships, qualifications and a staff development programme.

What type of worker is Tesco looking for:

“There are people. And then there are Tesco people
Tesco people are easy to spot because they're always:

• Passionate about retail.
• Focusing on the customer and striving to understand them better than anyone.
• Driven to achieve results through determination and commitment.
• Committed to treating people in a fair and consistent way.
• Willing to roll their sleeves up to get things done.
• Determined to respond energetically to customer feedback.
• Motivated to work in partnership with others to achieve individual and team objectives.
• Adaptable and flexible to thrive in a 24/7 business.
• Devoted to seeking feedback on their performance and investing time in their own development.” Source www.tesco-career.com

With Tesco announcing their about to create 1000 new jobs in Newcastle, Tesco are set to continue to expand. For someone with ambition and passion, Tesco will offer the opportunities for you grow and climb the career ladder.

You can view all the Tesco job roles and down load application forms on www.tesco-careers.com Their website has a variety of information and advice to help you choice if Tesco is the career for you, including employees profiles.

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reBlog from smartmeters.com: GE to Create Green Jobs in the UK

I found this fascinating quote today:

General Electric International announced plans to spend 110 million Euros on an offshore wind turbine manufacturing base and create up to 2000 green jobs in the UK. GE will also create application and service engineering centers around Britain and plans to develop a 4 Megawatt capacity wind turbine.  The investment will follow the successful outcome of the government’s grid infrastructure competition to make the roll out of Round 3 UK offshore wind a reality.smartmeters.com, GE to Create Green Jobs in the UK, Mar 2010

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reBlog from smartmeters.com: GE to Create Green Jobs in the UK

I found this fascinating quote today:

GE International CEO Ferdinando Beccalli-Falco says offshore wind will play a vital role in meeting the growing global demand for cleaner, renewable energy. “These investments will position us to help develop Europe’s vast, untapped offshore wind resources, while also creating new jobs for both GE and our suppliers.”Regarding the announcement, energy and climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, remarked, “We’re creating the right conditions and incentives to maximize the potential of our wind resource. Now we have another leading player entering the offshore wind market as a result, GE’s investment will create new jobs and help the supply chain flourish, reinforcing the UK as the destination for offshore wind investment.”Analysis from the Carbon Trust indicates the U.K.’s offshore wind industry could employ 70,000 by 2020 and generate £65 billion over the next 40 years. Dr. Gordon Edge, director of economics and markets at RenewableUK, notes that RenewableUK has long maintained the UK could become a leading offshore wind center, resulting in “thriving manufacturing clusters and 57,000 jobs by 2020.”Other elements of GE European expansion include plans to create a new Offshore Technology Development Center in Oslo; developing a Conceptual and Systems Design Center in Karlstad, Sweden; a new engineering center in Hamburg featuring product development, application engineering and advanced technology; and expanding resources at its existing wind turbine manufacturing facility in Salzbergen.smartmeters.com, GE to Create Green Jobs in the UK, Mar 2010

You should read the whole article.