This CV ~ How, Why and
What?This CV ~ How, Why and
What?| On this page: | Why? | Format | Your Comments |
Why?I have been involved in the process of new staff selection on several occasions during my career. On several occasions I have found that CVs give rather less information about a candidate than I would have liked.
| Example | It is normal to provide a list of key skills The depth of experience in using those skills is generally harder to determine - if at all. |
On several occasions, having additional information available at the time of reading CVs would have saved me from wasting several hours, and would have saved the candidate a wasted trip. And occasionally might have highlighted a winner.
Format| In this section: | The Page Heirarchy | Windows | Relating Key Skills to Positions Held | Other Links Between Pages | Links Within Pages |
The Page
HeirarchyThe basic approach here is to include only summary information on the main page, and provide links to pages containing more detail. This allows a large amount of information to be present, without it getting in the way when something else is being sought.
Where necessary, this structure continues down a further level, for example there is one general Career Details page, which links down to various pages, each giving details of one position held.
The CV Page Map
shows the heirarchy at a glance.
WindowsTo make it easier to collect get an overall picture, most
pages open into new browser windows. For example, clicking 'Personal Details' from the CV homepage opens a window specific to
that page (at least if your browser can, it will).
Since it is possible to have too much of a good thing, pages
on similar topics generally share the same window. For example '4 Year Course Literature' opens in the same window as its parent page, 'Education'. The exception here is in the career details,
where every position held opens in a new window.
The one area of the CV where an ample sufficiency (and any more would constitute a significant superfluity) of separate windows is opened is in ...
Relating
Key Skills to Positions HeldThe main Skills page gives an overview of the key skills
available. To allow any skill to be located in the career
details, links are provided from the main Skills page to a number
of skill=>position tables (for example Project Phases Matrix). Each table has a set of links to the relevant
career points, and a tick-matrix showing which skills were used
in each career point.
Other
Links Between PagesA few additional links have been provided between related subjects.
Links
Within PagesA set of links is provided at the top of each page to all the main headings on that page, in the form of a simple contents list. Arrows by all main headings are themselves links that point back to the top of the page.
Where a section has sub-headings, a set of links is provided at or near the top of the section to each of the subheadings; this may be in the form of a simple contents list or be part of a table that includes additional information. All sub-headings have arrows by them that are links back to the section heading. For example, the arrow by the 'Links Within Pages' sub-heading a couple of paragraphs back links back to the 'Format' heading; the arrow by the 'Format' heading in turn links back to the top of the page.
At the bottom of each page is a link back to the top of the page.
Your
CommentsI should be grateful for any comments regarding the usefulness
(or otherwise) of this CV, and possible improvements. Please send me an email
.
Thank you for your time.
