My cv Opinions please

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I am hoping it'll work out for me too. I hate my bloody job even though they pay me decent money. I realise I will probably end taking a pay cut to get into IT but I'd rather do a job I like and get crap wages than get paid highly and be pissed of all day long.

 

A Big time lurker (sites been a great help thanks!) here with a couple of questions-

I've noticed a few of you mentioning how important Personal statements are on CV's. What I have been doing is writing cover letters for each job and sending them with my CV. For example I may write the cover letter in the body of the email and send the CV as a .doc attachment or on a job site, write a covering letter in the forms section and upload my CV separately or post a covering letter with a CV.

In all cases for all intents and purposes I always have a covering letter/personal statement/introduction as part of my application but it is never part of my CV i.e. not written into the .doc file. Is this going to hurt me a lot, do I need to actually write an introduction in as part of my CV as well?

Secondly, it really isn't needed to have my references on my CV or I can just put "available upon request"?

 

I would always send out a covering letter to explain why I am interested in a position with a company or as a reply to a job advert.

As I have found out the last few days references don't have to be on the CV you can put available on request.

 

So doing a covering letter (as I always do) is fine? I don't need an extra letter as part of my CV?