Ultimate CV: Trade Secrets from a Recruitment Insider

by Rowan Manahan

So, after much careful, painstaking research you are finally ready to take yourself, and your wealth of experience and qualifications, to the job of your dreams. The first opportunity you'll have to present yourself is through your CV—so you'd better get it right. Ultimate CV tells you exactly what you need to know to write a selling CV. Recruitment expert Rowan Manahan offers insider knowledge on what does and does not impress and guidance on how to turn the basic essentials of your CV into a successful presentation. In clear-cut language, this book tells what to include and what to avoid; how to steer clear of easy blunders and employ simple but effective techniques; how to present and style your CV, including what vocabulary, language style, and font to use; and how to write your first CV as a first job-seeker. Whether you're starting from the beginning or moving on to pastures new, Ultimate CV offers unambiguous, practical advice on creating the right CV for you. It can be surprisingly easy to get it wrong, but with this book's insider knowledge we can all get it right.

192 pages, Paperback

First published March 8, 2010

About the author

Irish born and educated, Rowan is the MD of Fortify Services, a career management and training firm, with clients all over the English-speaking world. Seeing as he wasn’t able to broker his expertise in the Rubik Cube into an international showbiz career, Rowan entered corporate life and worked with indigenous and multinational companies. Since jumping ship in 1993, he has amassed almost 20 years’ experience career planning and training with executives at all levels.

Rowan is the author of the best-seller, Where's My Oasis? (The Essential Handbook for Everyone Wanting That Perfect Job) and Ultimate CV (Trade Secrets from a Recruitment Insider).

He serves as an External Lecturer for Trinity College Dublin, Bochum University, the National College of Ireland, Dublin Institute of Technology, and Froebel College of Education. He is a frequent conference speaker and appears regularly in the media sharing his expertise and advice. 



Rowan loves good minds, great music, chop-sockey videos and smelly cheese. He variously describes himself as an author, insultant, storyteller, TEDx curator, husband, father, and dancing bear. Manahan's Mantra is: “We are 98.5% chimpanzee and 1.5% human.”

Reviews

[southernmyst · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick, concise, full of good information. Has worksheets to help you work through some activities, too - quite a helpful thing for me. NOT full of sample full-length CVs to bog you down trying to dissect them - the only samples are as sections to enforce the point the author's making. Brilliant appendix of words to peruse while actually typing up your CV.

Well-written, engaging, despite not being my favorite subject. Would definitely recommend this, particularly to anyone else first dipping their toe in the English job market.