Please have a look at my CV

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any input would be great

Been looking for a new contract - Just not having any luck

- No copying guys

thanks

 

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I think it's a good CV personally

 

Yeah, it's pretty good. Might just be a case of waiting it out.

 

any recommendations or improvements guys ?

 

I like the layout and its concise enough to read so that's both good ticks

 

being applying for jobs,
want a onsite role, but no-one has had a sniff!


I know me not having certs is letting me down!

Maybe I should wait!

 

You are currently employed though aren't you? ... so it might be worth trying to sit some certifications to booster your CV, but a lot of the time it is the experience with the cert that holds you ahead of other candidates rather than just the cert alone.

 

Yep, currently working.

Its due to come to a end in a month or so, just been checking the waters. I have already decided to do server 2008 MCSA

 

I know I have already looked at your CV, but what kind of IT work do you want to get in to, is it Server or Hardware, and if you say Hardware then is it builds or desktop support

 

I want to be a remote engineer or Server Support. (like I used to be).

I have done my share of first and second line roles.

Any one recruiting?

 

Your current post takes most space on your CV, but isn't actually the most technical - if you want to work beyond 1st/2nd line your CV must convince readers that you do have the skills needed. In description you wrote "Working to agreed Service Level Agreements" and "making sure cases were dealt within SLA" - waste of space in my opinion. Also is it really important that you have finished high school 15 years ago?
What have you been doing at Dixons? No need to elaborate but it does not look well.

Just my 2p;)

 

I actually cut a lot of the experience out because my cv would have ended up on 3 pages!
(especially from my remote engineer role)

@ Dixon's I worked on different roles, 2 in particular But I am out of space!

 

You should definitely list that you have the MCSA as you will be missing recruiter searches by leaving it off.

CV looks ok, could do with page break at 'Dec 2005 -' to align sections to page boundaries.

I'd drop the references section, it adds nothing, everyone knows they can ask you for references.

Education looks ok to me, except I'd maybe separate courses from qualifications under your certifications. You could summarize as A+, N+, MCSA.

Third person / impersonal reads a bit weird for a personal profile section to me, I'd write this section in the first person.

 

I have to agree there...

 

The issue is I have been on the courses but not got the certs Hence why I just listed them

 

I was going to suggest you should at least separate out exams and courses to make it clearer - if you passed 70-290 then say so. And say what certs you do have (if any) even if that is only an MCP and MCTS, these all help those search engines.

If you have not taken the exams then I would say it is misleading to use the exam numbers at all, use the course numbers instead. (hint - anything that starts with 70- is an exam, courses will be 4 or 5 digits, sometimes with a revision letter eg A, B after them, although often not quoted).

If you don't have any of the exams, then I would include the courses as otherwise it looks very thin. Or why not take advantage of the second shot offer and go take one or more exams while getting a chance to take it again for free if you don't pass first time?

I agree with others that bullets about basic essentials like meeting SLAs should be de-prioritised or deleted, otherwise you might as well add "turning up to work on time" and so on.
For each role it can help to have an opening sentence describing roughly what the job involved, then bullet the details. You should also look at trying to say what effect you doing the job had - did it save the company time, money, allow them to do something they could not before? Maybe also make it clear how you did the job - via phone, remote logon, face to face, travelling to other sites / offices. Depending on the job you are going for they might need these skills. If you have only done support by phone and I need someone to go out and provide face to face support for my customers, I'm going to choose someone that has that on their CV (more likely) - and vice versa.

I think you need to say lots more about your previous role where you were going out to do work for people - were these people paying you directly? That says a lot about the level of quality work and customer service you have to provide compared to someone buried in a huge helpdesk of a corporate organisation who can more easily hide their mistakes and not deal with the difficult problems or people. There is some merit in showing the skills this gives you in business terms as well, as many firms look for IT staff who can be more 'holistic' in providing support appropriate to the business needs, with an eye to good prioritisation of resources (including technical, people, money, and time, not necessarily in that order).

I think your "high school" qualifications are not as important as your tech stuff, but valid to put on there, especially in the current climate with rising percentages of pupils leaving school without basics such as English and Maths GCSEs. Not going to set anyone alight, but at least puts a tick in a vital box.

There's probably room for some detail of the technologies you have worked with, and don't be afraid to name names and versions, especially around things like windows server versions, virtualisation, and security products.
Emphasise "corporate" level software and skills over "home" ones (if that is the market you are aiming at) - for example deploying, configuring, monitoring and updating antivirus using a centralised enterprise-level tool (which most AV vendors provide) is way different than downloading and installing a free bit of software and just accepting the default install and setting it to auto-update every 24 hours.

(I'm not saying a free AV tool would do any worse a job, in fact the reverse often seems to be the case, the point here is simply about skills on a CV)