Successful CVs in a Week

by Steve Morris and Graham Willcocks

Published 12 February 1996
This text offers guidance on presenting a professional and adaptable CV. Curriculum vitaes are an important part of most successful job applications, and the individual's ability to pick exactly the right details about themselves in a professional manner is the key to success. Also important is ensuring a CV is tailored to fit the organization it is being sent to. Writing a CV is therefore a combination of research, presentation and selection skills. This book aims to help the individual put together a CV that works for them. It examines each step of the process, covering researching yourself, researching the organization, formatting a CV, style and the accompanying letter.

This text explains the issues involved in Human Resource Management and provides advice and skills to manage them. It is aimed at anyone responsible for managing staff. Getting the right people in the right place at the right time is at the heart of successful human resource management. Doing it right involves a difficult balance between areas like drawing up staffing plans and areas such as counselling and developing people. This book aims to help the personnel manager or anyone managing staff to understand the basics of HRM. It also sets out to suggest a range of valuable skills that can be implemented to put a new system in place or to improve an existing one. The book covers the role of the personnel department, human resource analysis, human resource planning and handling people.