Using Career Manager for CV purposes

Question

I wondered if anyone has used Career Manager for the purpose of creating a CV. There's loads of information on how to create the perfect CV, but to me it seems like the output from Career Manager is literally a print out of the information that goes in there. Are we best sticking to a traditional CV, or tailor the information within Career Manager to download a CV from there? Does a CV from within the realm of the IET add anything to the weight a CV carries in an application?

Andy Millar · Accepted Answer

Hi, 
 Personally, as a (ex-)recruiting manager, I would not like to receive a CV output from Career Manager. Rather than the "realm of the IET adding anything" it would come across to me that the applicant hasn't thought about personalising their CV, and has relied on a third party tool to do it. After all, the IET isn't endorsing anything that's on there which is all that would add value - they can't because they don't know that what you've entered into CM is true. 
 However, certainly taking the text out and then reformatting it could be useful to you (if only to remind you what you've done!) rather than completely rewriting it all over again. 
 Key thing is to remember that for roles which attract a lot of applicants it really is true that recruiting managers spend literally seconds on the first pass read of CVs (I have sorted through 200 CVs for a single post before, you don't have time to spend long filtering out as many as you can to get to the ones that might be worth reading in detail) - CVs must be clear, personal, and if possible targeted to the role. They need to be a sales pitch - not just a list of what you've done. 
 Ok, I've just tried the "Download Master CV" function In CM for my own entries. As a consultant or contractor tendering for work, to back up my tender, it would be ok. For giving to a recruitment agency who are acting for me, so that they could develop my CV, it would be ok (ish). As a job applicant I'd suggest that 99.9% of the time it would go straight into the "reject" pile. 
 Good question! 
 Andy

Using Career Manager for CV purposes

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