[rapsody]

Hi , I want to apply for a sales advisors vacancy . my friend and good neighbour works for this particular company as a Rep ,and said they are desperate for sales advisors. I have had a varied amount of experience many years ago within sales ledger, accounts, bought ledger, and a lso experience in 2003 as a call centre advisor for the local Nhs and 2000 as a travel consultant. I have not worked for nearly a year now and my last employment was only a casual bench worker, this was just filling magazines and envelopes. i have had numerous jobs and I feel that if any prospective employer looked at my current Cv , would be put off straight away by the amount of different fields ive worked within short periods. Could you advise me how I can get round this by just telling them about the relevant experience relating to the vacancy and without it looking as though I am not hiding anything

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[thecvstore]

[quote="rapsody"]Hi , I want to apply for a sales advisors vacancy . my friend and good neighbour works for this particular company as a Rep ,and said they are desperate for sales advisors. I have had a varied amount of experience many years ago within sales ledger, accounts, bought ledger, and a lso experience in 2003 as a call centre advisor for the local Nhs and 2000 as a travel consultant. I have not worked for nearly a year now and my last employment was only a casual bench worker, this was just filling magazines and envelopes. i have had numerous jobs and I feel that if any prospective employer looked at my current Cv , would be put off straight away by the amount of different fields ive worked within short periods. Could you advise me how I can get round this by just telling them about the relevant experience relating to the vacancy and without it looking as though I am not hiding anything[/quote]

What you could do here is create a functional CV which just highlights relevant experience rather than listing your jobs in chronological order.

Also, use a profile section at the top of your CV to showcase the skills you hold (relevant to the sales job you're applying for). For example, you may need good communication, people management and presentation skills - therefore, ensure these facts are stated in the profile.

Feel free to post your CV here or email us if you need further advice. :D

[etali]

If you ever did any temp work with an agency, and stayed with that agency a while, you could merge that into 'various temporary contracts' - that's what I do to cover about a year worth of my history, and it has worked quite well.

I wouldn't be too concerned about having changed jobs, as long as you lasted at least 6 months in each job - the culture seems to be changing these days, and people change jobs more often than they did a few years ago.

A functional / skills based CV does sound like a good idea, but in my opinion the benefit is that it will allow you to show off the skills you have gained, not just hide how many times you've changed job :)