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Packed with advice, tips, worksheets, example CVs and real-life case studies.

Your CV is the key to opening up your career opportunities. It has to market your talents and experience effectively, convincing the reader that you have a great deal to offer them.

This book shows you how to create a winning CV and face interviews with greater confidence. Author Jill Dodds provides advice and examples based on her experience as a university careers adviser at De Montfort University. She advised students and graduates applying for jobs in areas as diverse as IT, law, the media, health care and scientific and environmental work.

CVs & Interviews Made Easy covers everything you need to know to get you through the job-hunting procedure successfully, from researching your employer and creating impressive covering letters to making a good impression at interview.

It also shows you how to deal with application forms and other selection methods, such as psychometric tests and presentations. For those who want to change direction, make a mid-career move or are returning to work after unemployment, Jill Dodds also explains the strategies needed to make these changes come about.

1. Know your strengths
2. Researching your future
3. Choosing the right format
4. Putting it together
5. Drafting your CV
6. Letters that impress
7. Application forms
8. Starting out - CVs for graduates
9. Mid-career moves
10. Changing your direction
11. Returning to work
12. Marketing yourself: CVs for the self-employed
13. Interviews - what to expect
14. Preparing yourself
15. Making an impression
16. Tackling difficult questions
17. Other selection methods