Advice on CV Templates

In today’s competitive job market a good CV is a vital tool when embarking upon a job search. The Internet is now inundated with websites offering CV templates which you can download and simply enter your personal details into. After all, your CV will be about your own experiences and qualifications, so you must be the best person to write it, right?

So how good are these CV templates?

Just doing a quick online search for CV templates will reveal nearly half a million results, a vast number of which will be promoting CV formats and templates for free. Other websites may even charge you for downloading one of their templates. Either way, it couldn’t be easier to use one of these templates. But how do you know that they are actually any good? It is important to consider who is providing these templates and to bear in mind that even recruitment consultants may not be experienced in CV writing! The CV Centre has actually worked with a number of leading recruitment agencies to help them improve their skills in this area.

The advantages of professional CV writers

Despite how easy it is to find free templates on the Internet, you should remember that CV writing is actually a highly specialist skill which, as market leaders, The CV Centre is expert in. We offer a comprehensive professional service and our clients can benefit from:

More than nine years’ experience in CV writing and other relevant fields, including knowledge of the recruitment process
A reputation as the country’s most successful CV consultancy
Well-trained and highly experience CV writers from a range of academic and professional backgrounds
Unrivalled guarantees that offer our customers a peace of mind that our competitors cannot
Evidence of a history of satisfied clients in the form of testimonials

Although The CV Centre does not provide a free CV writing service, we are confident that we can offer a better service than you would receive by entering your details into CV templates. We fully appreciate the importance of your future career and are committed to writing you a high-quality CV that will produce better results than CV templates ever can.

Our clients are from a wide range of industry sectors and from different stages of the career ladder. However, irrespective of their differences, they are all working towards the same thing – better career prospects.

The importance of understanding an employer’s requirements

No matter how much experience you have in your chosen profession, whether you have worked for 10 years in IT or 20 years in catering, you will not necessarily have acquired the skills necessary to enable you to produce a winning CV. You will have a vast amount of information that you will want to communicate to potential employers, but do you really know what information they will be looking for on your CV? When using CV templates, it is very easy to fall into the trap of either including too much detail or missing out on the key points that a potential employer is hoping to see.

What The CV Centre offers

Our CV writers are carefully selected to ensure that we have a team of consultants with experience in a range of professions. We also make sure that each consultant passes a comprehensive induction training process which not only assesses their creative abilities but also their skills in writing and design.

Wherever possible, your CV will be produced by the consultant with the best knowledge of your particular industry so that they can tailor your CV utilising key words and phrases to sell your specific attributes. Your consultant will also make sure that they do not include irrelevant information and that they use the most suitable layout according to your individual skills and experiences.

When potential employers sort through the mountain of CVs they receive for an advertised position, it is possible that your CV may only be looked at for 30 seconds before it is placed on the Yes pile or the No pile. Because The CV Centre is not restricted to using CV templates, we can alter your CV to help make sure that it attracts the recruiter’s attention – for the right reasons. We realise that all our clients are different and, therefore, may require a different format of CV – something which templates will not take into account.

The fees

Here at The CV Centre, we appreciate that many people will have to consider the costs when they decide they need a new CV and, because of this, we are pleased to be able to offer highly competitive prices. Due to the sheer volume of orders we receive, we are been able to keep our costs down while ensuring that we continue to provide our clients with a quality service. We are not secretaries so we don’t just enter your information into CV templates: we write a unique document that is designed according to your unique requirements. This is not a service you will find for free anywhere else and certainly not from free CV templates.

With fees starting at only £32.50, we are confident that you will consider this is a small price to pay for the reassurance that you are giving your job search the best possible start by having a professional CV produced on your behalf.