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For most of us, our CV is possibly the most important document we will ever produce.

It is a document so important that once posted or e-mailed it can dictate the rest of our lives.

If it does the job it was painstakingly produced to do, you get the opportunity to sell yourself at interview and tell a prospective new employer what you can do for them. If it does not, and you are lucky, you will get what I know as a �Dear John� letter.

In other words your CV did not do its job for you.

It let you down, "Good morning. Pleased to meet you." didn't happen.

Your CV decides if you get the interview, which could get you the job, which will probably change everything you have done with your life so far.

How anyone could consider having such an important document produced by a stranger astounds me.

About me:

As a Recruitment Consultant who has literally thousands of candidates to select from, I do more including and excluding of contenders than any HR Person ever will. I do it with your CV and if your CV does not do its job for you I am twice as likely to delete you from a short (long) list of potential candidates than any HR Person.

I have spent the last seven years as a Recruitment Consultant and prior to that I spent lots of money paying them as a manager of a department within a PLC. From the success I have gained as a Consultant, and having recruited staff into my departments, it would appear I have discovered a formula for a CV that should dramatically increases it�s ability to do it�s job for you. Put you, in your best suit, in front of a prospective employer.

A better indication of what I have achieved is that I work for a Consultantcy that has been established for almost forty years. Within 2 1/2 years I managed to individually grow the financial turnover of the Consultantcy to a point where I was personally producing annual turnover figures, almost equal to what the whole Consultantcy had produced prior to my arrival. As I had never worked in a dedicated sales environment prior to this point, I was proud to have adapted my skills to this new area so well. I find approximately 70 candidates a year a new position. One very important point is that the recruitment industry has an interview to CV sent out ratio of approximately 25%. From the positions I have filled, I have an interview to CV sent out ratio of 91%.

I put this success down to three main factors.

The fact that I know the industry I am recruiting into.

My communication skills.

And the advice I offer my candidates about how they should put their CV together and the information it should and should not contain.

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You may recall the 100% mouse killing system which sold in its thousands. You remember; it goes something like this:

For £20.00 (or whatever) the seller claimed he had a system, that was 100% effective at killing mice. You send your money and he sent you instructions. They said. �Place mouse on a house brick and hit with a second brick.� Very effective, but not very moral?

Even though this method of killing mice did work, this site is not one selling a spoof product such as this.

What am I Offering:

I will read your CV.

If, having read it, I feel it and you will NOT benefit from the information I am offering, I will send you an e-mail telling you that I do not feel your CV would benefit from any changes I am suggesting.

If, once I have read your CV, I think that you would benefit from some of the changes I am suggesting then I will send you an e-mail telling you that I feel I can help and requesting you forward the agreed sum.

What you will receive is not 2 pages of text but an Information Pack. A document with 20 pages of instructions of what to do, not to do and how to structure your CV, not only to get you the interview you want but also to lead your interviewer down a path of questions you want to be asked. Notes on the Interview it,s self, Covering letters, how to handle agencies so they do their job better for you. Structure, headings and sub headings for your CV. Suggestions for Profiles all combining into an amount of information which is far more in-depth than you would imagine for the cost.

If you are sent the information you will need it and will benefit from it.

The sceptics of you out there will be thinking that it might be uneconomical of me to do anything other than send out the information for every CV I receive, possibly never reading any CV's sent to me.

I wish those people luck with their careers and hope they get all the interviews they need.

Bluntly, there are no refunds, as I will not send the information to you unless I genuinely feel you will benefit from it. Yes, if you want the information you will have to trust me and believe how successful I have been as a Recruitment Consultant. I hope you will read all I have written and conclude that it is not written by someone trying to make a fast buck (Pound), but someone who is genuinely trying to help ordinary people get the job they really want, or need, and an individual who is not charging such an amount for the information to be able to make a living at it. The amount is considerably less than most, if not all companies, who would offer to produce your CV for you.

In my opinion, some of the worst CV's I see, and I can read 100+ a day, are the ones, which people have paid to have produced.

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If your CV is truly going to do it's job for you, YOU have to take the time to produce it.

Included within the Information Pack I will send you is lots of information with reference to layout, format, what you must have in your CV and, importantly, what you must not put in it. Also some of the more obvious stuff referring to interviews and the do and don�ts.

You would be surprised at some of the things people write in their CV. The temptation to give examples from the CV's I read all day was hard to overcome but one of the points with recruitment is total confidentiality. On this point I do not need to have your personal details, address, date of birth on the CV you send me (knowing your age might help me thought). I am sure you will feel more comfortable not sending me this type of information.

I don't need it to decide if I can help.

If you don�t trust me then don�t request the information. If you do trust me then I feel that £25.00 is an amount I would have readily risked when I was looking for a new position, if I felt it would improve my chances of being interviewed for the job I really wanted.

You might like to take a look here as a comparison?

I look forward to being able to help you and hope I can.

Richard Gosling

Below are ways in which you can offer to purchase the information pack should I mail you to say that I can help.

Pay Pal or NOCHEX are the simplest method but cheque or cash (can't recommend cash) in the post is acceptable. I will forward you my address if you indicate you would prefer to pay by post.

If you would like me to take a look at your CV to see if I can help you improve the number of interviews it can get you click the e-mail link below and copy your CV into the open window. IMPORTANT: Put the letters CV in the Subject box. (This should apear automatically) If you do not do this your mail will not get to me. If you are not sure how to send me your CV click the e-mail link, enter, How do I send my CV, in the subject box and I will forward you full, step by step instructions.

cv@sharpcv.net

The link below takes you to the NOCHEX Web Site. I have added it here so that if I send you an e-mail saying that I can help you put toghether a Sharper CV, you can use to do pay for the pack. If you prefer you can pay with PayPal but you will need to register with them .If you would rather use PayPal let me know and I will send you a link to my account with them. With NOCHEX you can just follow the link below and do not have to register. Both are secure sites. Both options are very simple and can be used on many sites to pay for items or get paid if you sell an item on the Internet.

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