5 Quick changes to make to your CV today.

5 Quick Changes to make to your CV today. 

I have worked in recruiting and hiring since before I graduated. 

Rocking your CV/ Resume isn't rocket science. 

Recruiters and hiring managers will quickly toss a CV that is too confusing or isn't instantly showing off the skills they are looking for. Not in a douche bag way, but they are busy people who read 100's of CVs a day ,and if you can make your CV easier to find amongst the others you are already miles ahead. 

1. What your file called ? 

Always save your CV with your name.... MyCV isn't helpful on a hiring managers desktop that is full of files called "MyCV" or "CVMay" I save mine as KCarmichaelCV, and suggest you add at your last name, your first name if you like and either CV or Resume. 

2. What colour is your CV ? 

Mine is lavender, not a little girl lavender but a shade that shows that my personality and makes my CV at little more visually interesting. 

Adding a splash of colour will always help make your CV stand out, and can be a easy way to show a bit more of your personality. 

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3. Are you showing off your most recent work ? 

Make sure that your CV starts off with your most recent experience. Chronological CV's drive recruiters crazy, they want to read about the bits that fit in with the job you are applying for. They do not want to dig through babysitting jobs to find what you are currently doing. 

Start off with the job you are currently in and work back from there. Make sure that you are highlight all of your main roles in that job. 

4. Dude where is your number ? 

If you do not add contact details, hiring managers CAN NOT CONTACT YOU ! 

Get that shit on there now ! They could love your experience but will not call you if they do not have your number. 

5. What do you do outside of work ? 

Throw some hobbies on there ! Who knows that hiring manager could be in to ridding horses too. My sports back ground has played a big role in my career, I did work in coaching for a very long time, but that aside part of the reason I am in my current job is that my director wanted an athlete. Lots of employers look for athletes. This also helps break the ice in an interview, perhaps your meeting with your future boss and she's also a ballerina, you already have common ground. It also shows that you do stuff ! that you get out of bed on your day off and you do something ! 

With 10 min of editing and playing in word or pages you could get your CV on the top of the stack of other applicants. 

Top 10 Times Aunt Becky from Full House was Bae Part 2

You have to give it to the other girls on Full House too, but Becky steals the show.... however in the early seasons Stephanie Tanner's air is on point for a 5 year old... and I guess Uncle Jesses hair all the time. 

Here we go on the long awaited TOP 5 Times Aunt Becky was bang on trend for 2016 in the Early 90s. 



5. That time that Uncle Jesse got her snow for Christmas. Swoon for Uncle Jesse. 

High Waisted Skit, Sheer Blouse, Nailed Christmas party Chic. 

4. You can't tell but she is wearing thigh high boots with this flow-y turtle neck dress. 

Thigh High Boot Black Dress 1 Black Dress 2 

3. Even pregnant with twins this lady wins. 

Pink Pleated Dress

2. Shoulders , Shoulders, Shoulders, Tie ?  It works on her !

Also I have that lipstick. 

Denim Shoulder Shirt

1. This is more than a working girl can dream, it is perfect in all the ways. 

Speechless, White Polo neck, Pencil Skirt, briefcase and corset or Corset ... TOP THAT 

Through out the whole series Aunt Becky kills it she's styleish and just a great role model. 

Aunt Becky is surprisingly modern and trendy Part 1

I loved Full House when I was a kid, and despite the fact that Fuller House was a bit of a let down, I have really enjoyed re watching Full House. 

What Iv noticed is a lot of wholes, but most importantly that Aunt Becky is my hero, I have already gotten my hair cut like her. 

Here is my list of top 10 times that Aunt Becky was surprisingly on trend for 2016 Part 1. 


10. This Spring/ Summer dress.... or all year round in San Fran. 

 Half of the dress section on Asos and Topshop is this dress, Bang on trend Bec. 

Asos Tea Dress 1 Asks Tea Dress 2

9. Chokers are all over, even those shitty stretchy ones we worn as kids in the 90's.  ( I guess you can't see it THAT well) 

Comfy sweater and Choker 

8. Yup this too.... I am all for the side half pony. How pretty is that blue ?

Bright Leggings  Neon Swimsuit

7.All of the Denim

 Belt  Denim Top 

6. 1980s Formal wear is back ! 

Black Dress 1 Black Dress 2 Earrings

This woman is my second big obsession currently, only slightly behind Charlie and Marnie from HBO Girls. 

Check back Thursday for the Top 5 Aunt Becky Looks 

Being 26 and not having much of a clue

A couple months back we had some really lovely girls visit as part of their travels on their Erasmus/exchange year they were 20 and like all 20 year old girls had exciting dreams. I'm 26 and I at 20 I thought of all these fun and glamours ideas for what was to come. 

I honestly love seeing people speak about their aspersions. -not hear see they tend to light up its great- I worry though that at some point sooner then they would expect they will have to mourn those dreams as they change, fall apart, and morph in to some very different plans. Though that's not a bad thing. 

Here is my example at 19 I was sure I would marry my English boyfriend, after all I wanted to be in The UK, he was from there, and he was a semi famous skater where we lived, he also played the bass... I guess he was perfect.... for me AT THE TIME ! 

Because by 21 I had just had my heart broken by MyCharlie, I was living in France and drowning those sorrows in a French guy who looked great in a suit. 

*HOLD ON A SEC PSA * Every girl needs to have a brief or long relationship with a young French man. They will open doors, they will take you to nice restaurants and just all in all make you feel fancy, and needy all in one. Most of all you will develop a self confidence that will be useful for the rest of your life.

While living in France at 21, I had such great ambitions for the coming years. I was gonna finish business school, then I was gonna get and MBA or I was going back to France to do a Masters in Luxury marketing then move to London get that fancy marketing job,so I though.

With that thought I put a lot of my identity in to what was to come rather than what was in front of me. Everything was about the future, everything was to get me to my glamours stage. 

Now at 26 I am living my dream and I want to cry all the time ! I think in many ways I ruined this opportunity before I even had the chance to live it. 

In my head I lived in a cute little apartment in the city, it only took me 15-20 min to get anywhere ( anyone who has lived in London is laughing at me right now) my head was literally filled with images of my self running around the city without a coat and popping in and out of gallerias at lunch. 

That really isn't my life. Its lunch, the only reason I went outside today was to get Oreo's to crumble in to my yogurt. Things are not as I had pictured. From the outside things are great, I work for incredible people, I have made great friends, I have lived in two if London's sweetest little neighborhoods. But I get very down on my self and tell my self that I am not doing it properly or not capable of living my dream and in that I am not letting myself cherish this opportunity as I should. 

I honestly can not be proud of my self because the image I had in my head as a 21 year old won't go away.

I think that having dreams, aspirations, goals and plans really do move you forward, they drive you they give you a sense of reason and purpose. 

What I am saying is to have many, if one doesn't work out you have other things to be proud of, so that when one part of a plan isn't quite right you can still feel fulfilled. 

My dream didn't fall apart completely. I lived it, I just didn't love it as I had spent so many days dreaming I would.