Job Interview - Look good on paper

Not sure about how to write your CV? Would you like your CV to stand out from the crowd and be relevant? In the following post we’re giving you a series of handy tips so that your CV won’t be ignored next time.

It is important for any job seeker to remember that your CV is a sales document and needs to give the relevant information to the prospective employer in the best possible way.



Your CV needs to be visually clear – a maximum of two pages, using bullet points to outline the most important and necessary information. Remember that if you are one of 100 CVs received for a job vacancy, you have to ensure that the employer can, at a glance, find the information that is relevant to the role.

Firstly, consider the role you are applying for. If you are answering a job advertisement looking for a Marketing Executive for example, there is no point sending a CV showing your current role as a Marketing Manager because you will be considered too senior for the role and your CV will be passed over.

Ensure that you are applying for a position that suits your experience and make sure your CV clearly expresses this. If you have had three jobs over ten years, spend the most time and CV space on your most recent job – this is what the employer will be most interested in. For example, do not take half a page to detail your experience working a summer job in McDonald’s ten years ago, and then only give three lines to your most recent role, which you have held for five years.

Many people write a CV when they leave their first job and then over the years just keep adding bits to it – don’t do this! Create a new, fresh look for your CV, tailored to the job you are applying for.

Finally, always list your achievements. Employers are always interested in these. Equally, think about what hobbies you are listing, making sure that they are relevant to the job you are applying for.

Original article in Metro Ireland

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The trouble with Facebook

is an excellent tool to keep in touch with your friends, share and express yourself. However, you should be careful with what you publish and the way you say things.

This girl surely learned the lesson.

NOTE: The following image contains offensive words and inappropriate language.



The text in the image (just in case it’s not clear enough) is:

The girl: OMG I HATE MY JOB!! My boss is a total perwy wan… always making me do shit stuff just to piss me off!! WAN…!

The boss: Hi XXX, I guess you forgot about adding me on here?
Firstly, don’t flatter yourself. Secondly, you’ve worked here 5 months and didn’t work out that I’m gay? I know I don’t prance around the office like a queen, but it’s not exactly a secret. Thirdly, that ‘shit stuff’ is called your ‘job’, you know, what I pay you to do. But the fact that you seem able to fu.. up the simplest of tasks might contribute to how you feel about it. And lastly, you also seem to have forgotten that you have 2 weeks left on your 6 month trial period. Don’t bother coming in tomorrow. I’ll pop your P45 in the post, and you can come in whenever you like to pick up any stuff you’ve left here. And yes, I’m serious.

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More Strange Words in English - Odd English Words (Part 2/2)

Do you know the English words that make the triple S (SSS)? Scrumptious, Sequacious and Swingeing. Pretty uncommon words, aren’t they? It might even be the first time that you’ve heard them.



In this post we present you with the rest of the collection of strange English words that completes the list of “Odd English Words”.

As we usually do, we present the list in a table with four columns: the Word, the Meaning (in English), the Form and an Example of Use (to see the word in context).

This second part includes the last 12 words from the list:

Table 1: Odd English Words (Part 2)

Word	Meaning	Form	Example of use
To Loathe	To dislike (someone or something) greatly	Verb	She loathes men who smoke.
A moot point	Something irrelevant / A point or question to be debated	Noun	Until we rebuild downtown, whether we build more parking spaces is a moot point.
Potation	The act of drinking / A drink, usually alcoholic	Noun	Perhaps his nocturnal potations, prevented him from recognising accents which were tolerably familiar to him.
To quash	To put down or suppress forcibly and completely	Verb	The general ruthlessly quashed all opposition.
To rarefy	To make thin, less compact, or less dense	Verb	The bones are rarefied.
Scrumptious	Delicious or very attractive	Adjective	My grandmother does really scrumptious cakes.
Sequacious	Slavishly unthinking and uncritical	Adjective	Sequacious media is bad for democracy.
Swingeing	Severe; punishingly bad	Adjective	BBC newsreaders face swingeing salary cuts.
Tawdry	Cheap, showy, and of poor quality	Adjective	Those are tawdry Christmas decorations.
To be on tenterhooks	To be uncertain and anxious about what is going to happen	Verb	He was on tenterhooks about the result of the exam.
Tinker’s cuss	To be uninterested in something	Noun	I don’t give a tinker’s cuss if it rains all weekend.
To Villify	To make vicious and defamatory statements about	Verb	The Nazi propaganda villified the Jews.

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Do You Know these English Words? - Odd English Words (Part 1/2)

In the English language there are also odd, weird and not very common words. We present you below a list with some of these atypical words. It’s worth knowing these words as they are expressions that we use in our colloquial language.



The list is presented in a table with four columns: the Word, the Meaning (in English), the Form and an Example of Use (to see the word in context).

This first part includes the first 11 words from the list.

Table 1: Odd English Words (Part 1)

Word	Meaning	Form	Example of use
Behest	An urgent request	Noun	GM Chief to Resign at White House's Behest.
Bunkum	Empty, nonsense talk	Noun	The bunkum of Body Mass Index.
Contumely	Scornful or insulting treatment	Noun	Following years of police harassment and public contumely, he was arrested and charged with high treason and espionage.
To forgo	To give up	Verb	New Zealand Cricket has persuaded its six Indian Premier League players to agree contracts with the board and forgo "significant sums of money".
To Forego	Do without	Verb	Flu fear forces groom to forego nicety.
Grisly	Inspiring repugnance, gruesome	Adjective	The grisly murder was committed here.
Gristly	Composed of or containing gristle	Adjective	My son has a sore gristly lump behind his nipple.
Grizzly	A grizzly bear	Noun	The grizzly bear is a subspecies of brown bear.
To go haywire	Crazy, mad	Adjective	This period is just haywire time.
Hubris	Arrogance	Noun	There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris.
Jejune	Not interesting / Childish	Adjective	He was very surprised by their jejune responses to our problems.

Do you find any of these words useful?

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We've All Been There!

You might be enjoying your holidays or just back from them. Whatever the case, a bit of humour in English will be welcomed. Do you recognize any of the following situations?

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