A guide to creating the ultimate CV

Your CV is one of the most important Personal Branding Documents in your Job Seeking Toolbox. However, it is also the reason why so many applications are met with the dreaded rejection letter.

THE HARSH TRUTH: Recruiters and hiring managers don’t read CVs; they SCAN them. The average scan takes less than 10 seconds. If your CV does not grab the reader’s attention in those 10 seconds, then it is doomed for the rejection pile.

This workshop will teach you how to set your CV up so that it reads exactly how a recruiter or hiring manager scans it, making sure that your relevant skills and experience are easily apparent and in the most logical order.

You will learn:

• The key sections of a CV
• How to write a powerful Personal Summary
• How to identify and list your core skills
• How to skillfully articulate your work experience
• How to set yourself apart from the competition
• How to avoid the classic mistakes and clichés that can jeopardise and sabotage your job applications.

If your CV is old and out of date or if you don’t even have one to start off with, then this workshop will teach you how to create a professional and polished CV that you will be proud to send out.

This event is run in partnership between General Assembly and Escape the City.

About the Instructor

Skye Robertson

COO

Escape The City

Skye Robertson has helped thousands of people escape their jobs and start new careers and businesses through her work as Head of the Escape School and now COO at Escape the City. Skye designed the Career Change and Startup Accelerator Programmes both in London and NYC. Prior to her work at Escape the City, Skye worked at national enterprise campaign Startup Britain and think tank Centre for Entrepreneurs, traveling across the country designing initiatives to help support entrepreneurial ambitions across the UK, as well as researching and formulating policies to make the UK the best place in the world to start a business. Skye has worked as a Business Advisor on Facebook’s She Means Business campaign, for Young Enterprise working with young people to help them realise their entrepreneurial ambitions, and with social enterprise The Platform helping long term unemployed to launch social ventures. Skye also sits on the advisory board of The Entrepreneurs Network, a think tank working on entrepreneurial policy and the secretariat for the APPG in Entrepreneurship.