{"id":171345,"date":"2017-08-07T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/?p=171345"},"modified":"2017-08-07T14:21:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T14:21:10","slug":"7-cv-blunders-to-avoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/7-cv-blunders-to-avoid\/","title":{"rendered":"7 CV Blunders to Avoid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saleem Jaffer, Co-Founder of Joblife, was recently featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/formfactory.co.za\/top-3-mistakes-on-a-cv\/#SaleemJaffer\" target=\"_blank\">this blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned that the stress of putting together a compelling CV often stems from the fact that people are usually uncomfortable selling themselves. A\u00a0well-written and concise CV can catch attention, highlight your strengths, and get you that job.Here are 7 common job-seeking blunders to avoid as you piece together a CV to wow your new employer:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li class=\"\">You add too much unnecessary detail<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">Over-zealous styling<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">You ramble<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">The CV is riddled with spelling and grammar mistakes<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">There\u2019s no cover letter<\/li>\n<li>You mention money<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">You grovel<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Putting together a knock-out CV is no easy feat. You need to summarize your entire working history, explain why you\u2019re incredibly hireable and do it all in just a few short, sharp pages. But rest assured that if you keep your CV succinct and make sure to avoid the above mistakes you have a much better chance of letting your skills really shine through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saleem Jaffer, Co-Founder of Joblife, was recently featured in this blog post. He mentioned that the stress of putting together a compelling CV often stems from the fact that people are usually uncomfortable selling themselves. A\u00a0well-written and concise CV can catch attention, highlight your strengths, and get you that job.Here are 7 common job-seeking blunders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":171350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171345"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171352,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171345\/revisions\/171352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}