...this situation, writing an effective CV can be just the reason of getting an interview or even maybe of getting hired. However how can a CV be effective? How can we take attention and have a chance to get an interview from the company we apply? There can be lots of different things to consider for writing a CV but in our opinion, the three most important things are being clear, simple but informative, stating what helps you to stand out from others to fit the job and hooking up the person who is reading. First of all, we firmly believe that, a CV must be removed from everything unnecessary. It must be simple, easy to understand and at the same time include all the necessary information. As Cowan states in her article “10 Tips on Writing a Successful CV”, there are lots of other people who send their CV’s and because of this most of the time the decision-maker will not read each one fully, they will decide about it within sections so keeping it clear, short and informative is going to give you a better chance (2012). As it can be seen it is a simple but tricky part of writing a CV to keep it clear and short but informative. Secondly, while you try to keep it simple, clear and short, the information you are going to put about yourself must be relevant and matching to the job you apply for. Meaning, it should help you stand out from other people who apply for the job. According to Cowan in her article “10 Tips on Writing a Successful CV”, you should absolutely mention your...
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...CVS CAREMARK November 25, 2013 Belinda Merritt Michael Curtis Introduction CVS was founded in 1963 by Stanley and Sidney Goldstein and Ralph Hoagland. The first CVS store was opened in Lowell, MA. CVS stands for Consumer Value Stores. CVS Caremark is headquartered in Woonsocket, RI and the pharmacy services are currently headquartered in Nashville, TN. Within one year, the CV chain grew from one store to seventeen stores. By 1967, CVS opened its first pharmacy location. These locations were opened in Warwick and Cumberland, Rhode Island. CVS pharmacy provides services through the 7,000 retail stores within the United States. CVS has also expanded its business to include pharmacy benefit management, mail order as well as specialty pharmacy division, Caremark Pharmacy Services, a health clinic that is retail based, the Minute Clinic and an online pharmacy. CVS is the largest company that has its operation solely in the United States. In 2013 CVS Caremark was number thirteen on the Fortune 500 list of largest companies in the United States. Internal and External Factors that influenced the organization As with many organizations, there are several external and internal factors that affect the business. An internal factor can be defined as the internal communications of the business. The internal communications of the business forms the culture of the business. The culture of the organization includes the interpersonal relationships, training materials, newsletters...
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...sure that you are searchable. Allow me to rewrite your CV and LinkedIn profile into a professional marketing document. This is the best investment you will ever make. A CareerBuilder survey revealed the top five things recruiters are looking for in your social profile, which includes inappropriate photos, alcohol or drug use, negative posts about past employers or co-workers, a lack of communication skills as well as any discriminatory or inflammatory content regarding race,...
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...should introduce themselves in CV generally. They need present their information in a concise, persuasive and clear way. The CV required a around 1 page of A4 paper. There are 6 main characteristics of CV method. Firstly, the job seekers should write personal basic information to introduce themselves generally such as name, phone number, email and home address. Then, the CV should be introduced why the job seekers interested in the job. Thirdly, education background is an important part in China because it is a basic requirement for companies. Then, job seekers should tell to employers why they can be selected and appointed and why employers can invest their time and money. Work experience and professional skill are vital part in CV that is a determining factor in employers’ impression. They need list the dates of their employment, location, and name for each company. It is easy to scan their CV for the person and quickly match up their skill and experience with their job introduction. Next, hobbies and interests can be described which can make employers know which personality the seeker is and whether the job seeker is suitable in this position. Finally, Referees is not necessary on CV but it should be stated that detail are improvable on request. it is a good idea to nominate mentor or tutors if it is the first job. When the CVs are posted, job seekers should prepare suitable photograph that is a fist impression for tutors, therefore it is important. In China, it has a systematic...
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...CVS Caremark Organizational Analysis James P Miller Strayer University BUS 310 Professor Frevert Abstract CVS Caremark established 1963, has been expanding every year since their inception. With over 7,000 retail locations they face many human resources challenges. It essential for CVS to understand what HR challenges they face to make informed decisions; beneficial to the company stakeholders and employees. Hr decisions affect not only the employee’s but the company’s social opt squat. These resolutions include recruitment of highly skilled workers, company policies, labor relations, training and diversity, management of multiple locations, global business environments, employee compensation and benefits, and legal compliance. In addition, CVS human resources have to align optisquat with the mission and values of the company. CVS Caremark Organizational Analysis CVS Caremark is a pharmacy health care provider in the U.S. They provide pharmacy services, which includes mail order pharmacy services, specialty pharmacy services, plan design and administration, formulary management and claims processing; and Retail Pharmacy, which sells prescription drugs and a range of general merchandise, including over-the-counter drugs, beauty products and cosmetics, photo finishing, seasonal merchandise, greeting cards and convenience foods. As of Dec. 31, 2011, CVS has approximately 7,300 CVS/pharmacy retail stores. (CVS Care mark, 2011) CVS...
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...How to Inspect and Replace the CV Joints Constant Velocity joints, commonly referred to as CV joints, are constant parts on the drive shafts of every vehicle. Be it front-wheel drive automobiles, rear wheel drive or all-wheel drive ones, proper motion cannot be realized with the absence of those CV joints. They are strategically positioned at both ends of the main drive shafts such that, the transmission of the car connects to the drive shaft through it, and at the same time, at the outer ends of the shafts, the drive shaft connects to the wheels, again, through the Constant velocity joints. As it is evident, there are both outer CV joints and inner ones and both have a common function; the inner ones transmit the torque from the car transmission...
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...What is a CV? Curriculum Vitae: an outline of a person's educational and professional history, usually prepared for job applications (L, lit.: the course of one's life). Another name for a CV is a résumé. A CV is the most flexible and convenient way to make applications. It conveys your personal details in the way that presents you in the best possible light. A CV is a marketing document in which you are marketing something: yourself! You need to "sell" your skills, abilities, qualifications and experience to employers. It can be used to make multiple applications to employers in a specific career area. For this reason, many large graduate recruiters will not accept CVs and instead use their own application form. An application form is designed to bring out the essential information and personal qualities that the employer requires and does not allow you to gloss over your weaker points as a CV does. In addition, the time needed to fill out these forms is seen as a reflection of your commitment to the career. There is no "one best way" to construct a CV; it is your document and can be structured as you wish within the basic framework below. It can be on paper or on-line or even on a T-shirt (a gimmicky approach that might work for "creative" jobs but not generally advised!). When should a CV be used? * When an employer asks for applications to be received in this format * When an employer simply states "apply to ..." without specifying the format * When making speculative...
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...What is a CV? Curriculum Vitae: an outline of a person's educational and professional history, usually prepared for job application. Another name for a CV is a résumé. A CV is the most flexible and convenient way to make applications. It conveys your personal details in the way that presents you in the best possible light. A CV is a marketing document in which you are marketing something: yourself! You need to "sell" your skills, abilities, qualifications and experience to employers. It can be used to make multiple applications to employers in a specific career area. For this reason, many large graduate recruiters will not accept CVs and instead use their own application form. FACT: Often selectors read CVs outside working hours. They may have a pile of 50 CVs from which to select five interviewees. It's evening and they would rather be in the pub with friends. If your CV is hard work to read: unclear, badly laid out and containing irrelevant information, they will just just move on to the next CV. Treat the selector like a child eating a meal. Chop your CV up into easily digestible morsels (bullets, short paragraphs and note form) and give it a clear logical layout, with just the relevant information to make it easy for the selector to read. If you do this, you will have a much greater chance of interview. An application form is designed to bring out the essential information and personal qualities that the employer requires and does not allow you to gloss over your...
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...Pharmacy Service Improvement at CVS MQM 227 – Operations Management 1. Background information & Main Problem Background information The first “Consumer Value Store”, or CVS opened in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1963 with rapid growth naturally and with acquisitions. By 2002 CVS had $24.2 billion in revenue, increasing revenue by 37 percent in just 4 years. This increase in revenue can be attributed to the increase of pharmacy members, which reached 29.5 million pharmacy members by the start of 2000. This has put them as one of America’s largest retail stores with 4,000 stores. Along with the rapid expansion, CVS established Pharmacy Service Initiative (PSI) to comprehend customer service issues. The PSI had spent months in July of 2002 to discover problems that were occurring in their stores. The team identified 67 problems, with 67 solutions. PSI established what would make their customers unhappy for example, anything affecting customer waiting periods and anything affecting safety. PSI also found that many customers find it difficult to switch pharmacies and customer defections were hampering growth, but in 2000 when the customers switched it contributed to $2.5 billion in lost revenue. Defining the main problem or issue The main problems and issues that the Pharmacy Service Initiative, PSI, was able to find in their CVS pharmacy’s occurred in their five step prescription fulfillment process. The five steps include: Drop-off, Data Entry, Production, Quality...
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...CVS Caremark Business Analysis Part I University of Phoenix CVS Caremark Business Analysis Part I Investing mutual funds involves many aspects of confidence and knowledge when considering potential companies. One must know a company from the inside and out so they know exactly what their money is being used for. Having this knowledge means investors will not think twice about investing because they will feel confident that the company will provide a return on their investment. By performing a SWOT Analysis and examining how a company will fulfill the needs of internal and external stakeholders, investors will see what the current state of company is and what the foreseeable future holds. SWOT Analysis A SWOT Analysis is a planning tool used to analyze an organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (Nickels, McHugh, & McHugh, 2010). CVS Caremark is the potential client that this SWOT Analysis will be conducted on in order to determine if they are the proper suitor for investors. Company Overview CVS was founded in 1963 as a company that specialized in health and beauty products. Over time pharmacies were added, and CVS quickly grew in store locations over the next 4 decades by buying smaller pharmacy chains (“Our Company,” 2012). The big change in CVS occurred in 1997 with the purchase of the Revco pharmaceutical chain. Revco and its 2,500 store chain was now a part of the CVS brand and this quickly established CVS as a powerhouse in...
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...Yes, CVS does have policies and guidelines that are in place for the facility that I am in however, they don’t wait long enough to see if the changes or policies will work to start a new policy up. It’s important for managers to align a company’s vision and strategies with its organizational culture, but by doing that, they must have a clear defined vison and mission of the organization, managers can set strategic objectives they can be aligned with the company’s long-term goals. In addition, short term is also an important goal as well to observe and watch as well. The development of vison and mission statements are a crucial part of the strategic management process. To be successful managers must define and communicate a clear strategy if...
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...Overview Founded in 1963 by Stanley Goldstein, Sid Goldstein, and Mark Steven in Lowell, Massachusetts, Consumer Value Store (CVS), has quickly grown to be the second largest pharmacy and convenience store with over 7,600 pharmacies and drugstores nationwide. Since the beginning, CVS has always strived to be the largest retail pharmacy-which led to the development of their growth strategy. Furthermore, CVS continually strives to “reinvent” the pharmacy and make healthy living a fundamental part of their customers’ lives. (Biesada, 2014) Initially, these strategies were influenced by the company’s mission statement and purpose. According to the CVS website, the company’s mission is to “provide expert care and innovative solutions in pharmacy and health care that are effective and easy for our customers” (CVS caremark corporation: History, 2014). Clearly, CVS is in business to provide expert care, although it would appear that not all of their individual pharmacists share the same feelings. Based on research conducted, it would appear that there is a general lack of customer service training as some pharmacists have allegedly been behaving rudely towards customers. Throughout the course of this initiative, we will be discussing the gaps that have been found and we will develop a training program that we hope will help alleviate these problems and allow CVS to fully realize their mission. Part II: Needs Assessment Pharmacy Prescription Practices As a result of organizational...
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...interview) • Length: As long as it needs to be • Content: Area-specific listing of education and academic background • Purpose: Detail background and qualifications Curriculum Vitae Curriculum Vitae (or “CV”) • Origin is Latin- “course of one’s life” • Note “vitae” (vee-tie or vee-te) is the plural form; “vita” (vee-tuh) is singular Curriculum Vitae Why work on this now? • Time goes by fast • Helps you organize important things for your future career (which organizations to join; what is missing) • Assists in setting goals • Assists when getting letters of recommendations or applying for other programs/committees Curriculum Vitae Important NOTE • There is not really a “right” way to do a CV. However, there are some things that make the viewing easier, make you look more professional, and include things reviewers want to see. • Your CV may be different than someone else. • What’s important is that you keep one up to date. Curriculum Vitae General Set-Up Features • Font: Times New Roman • Regular paper (white) is fine • Font size: 12 point • No underlining • Single sided • Margins: 1” all around • Use bolding and CAPs to have things stand out • Number pages • No graphics • Same font throughout (may vary sizing some) • Full name on every page Curriculum Vitae Don’t forget, a CV needs to be… • • • • • Clear: Well-organized and logical Concise: Relevant and necessary Complete: Includes everything you need Consistent: Don’t mix styles or fonts Current: Up-to-date Curriculum...
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...Management and Leadership Topic: Research Paper 3 on CVS CAREMARK CVS Caremark is a company which considers helping mankind on their way to have better health. Their leaders have undertaken such operations which are environmental friendly, carbon reducing goals, engaging colleagues, customers and other stakeholders. Their leaders have been able to strategies in such a manner that they have been able to create a combination of health care services that provide great solutions from planning a pharmacy design to vital delivery of products and services to their customers. As they have a very good leader (CEO) Merlo Paints they have developed such capabilities that includes industry which are leaders in clinical and health managing programs, speciality in pharmacy expertise, excellent customer services and leaders in retail clinics. Leader’s behaviour is influenced by the internal and external constraints which interact with each other and with the leader’s personality and skills. Sometimes severe situations also arise when the leaders are only a figurehead who is unable to implement any strategy or policies to make changes. Internal constraints are those in which CEO’s discretion is influenced by the factors which are internal to the organizations, whereas external constraints are those which includes the organizations primary product and services and the type of market in which the firm operates. The CEO of CVS Caremark takes initiatives in the political processes which...
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...company resource analysis in the drug store industry, I will select the CVS Caremark Corporation as my study company. Question 1: Whether the company's present strategy working? CVS pharmacy services business strategy centers on providing their customer and client high quality and innovative pharmaceutical solutions, while assisting their member managing overall health care costs by leveraging CVS expertise in core PBM services. (Form -10k) (1) Moreover, the retail pharmacy business strategy, base of the CVS pharmacy services model to maintain successful growth they focus on new store development by expanding the number of retail pharmacy stores and retail stores range in size in order to provide better service, help client lowers overall health care costs and improve health outcomes. (1) How these strategic working? Look into the financial performance in the Appendix 1, table 1. CVS compare well on these profitability ratios with industry averages. Most of ratios are better than the industry averages. Ventureline (2). Study the CVS’s financial report I found the company is “Solid and significant growth.” According to CVS Caremark Annual Report 2013 (3), the financial highlights show the company was significant growth during 2012 to 2013. For example, net revenues increased 3.0 percent to a record $127 billion, while adjusted earnings per share from continuing operations rose 23 percent to $4.00. CVS earned $4.4 billion in free cash flow in 2013, and returned more than...
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