...You’ll find all the information you need to write a good CV on the SCELVA website: http://www2.scelva.univ-rennes1.fr/langues/anglais/cv/cv/CV.htm Specific features of Anglo-Saxon CVs compared to French CVs There isn’t 1 type of CV in English but many types: things vary from country to country 2 distinct trends: UK & USA => Adjust according to your objective + be as consistent as possible If you want your CV to catch a recruiter’s attention, it must be clear & easy to read (type size: 10-12) CV = showcase => show you’re rigorous, concise, that you master word-processing tools, that you can use the spell-checker Aspects common to all Anglo-Saxon CVs ( CVs are word-processed (never handwritten - it’s the same for letters) ( Their length varies: UK not limited to 1 page (but be as concise as possible because concision = valuable skill) / USA resume = 1 page but CV = as many pages as necessary ( Write your first name first, your family name second (e.g. Jean-Luc LEBRETON) ( Add +33 before your phone number ( There’s no photo (unless specifically required) ( Some CVs have a SKILLS section at the top http://www.quintcareers.com/transferable_skills.html Use action verbs rather than noun ( The EXPERIENCE / EMPLOYMENT part must be detailed French people value academic achievements whereas English-speaking people favour effective skills. Have your placements / internships + student jobs in this part This part often comes before the EDUCATION part ...
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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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...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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...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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...I. Introduction and Overview CVS Pharmacy is considered one of the top pharmacy nationwide chains in the country. There are more than 7,100 stores total, located in nearly every state. The stores retail medication, toiletries and sundry merchandise that is purchased by consumers such as snacks, beverages, skin care and personal care items, holiday merchandise and convenience goods. There is also an online site where products can be ordered and shipped directly to consumers. Some of the CVS pharmacies have medical services that operate out of the retail stores. A. Identify the Organization CVS recognizes the importance of establishing a culture that will have an affect on its people and their performance. The organizational development functional management at CVS realized that sharing a common vision would assist each individual in understanding what the company stands for, commit to the same vision, and then work toward supporting the mission each and every day. The vision at CVS is simple “to strive to improve the quality of human life” (CVScaremark.com, 2010). Taking a look at two of the organization’s functional goals in the Technology and Human Resource business areas, it is easy to see how CVS is an industry leader. The organizational structure or team at CVS involved in working on this issue from the HR area include the Senior Vice President of HR, Training Specialist, nd local HR managers. From organizational operations there is the technology manager, and procurement...
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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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...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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...* The two health care companies I chose were Walgreens and CVS, both have a long history in the pharmaceutical department and are in direct competition with one another for customers. Walgreens is America’s largest drugstore chain and as of January 31, 2014, it now has 8,678 stores in all 50 states and most districts. Walgreens issued more than 800 million prescriptions annually, which is about 20 percent of the United States market. (Walgreen Vs. CVS) As for online business, it has almost 17 million visitors per month. Walgreens’s strategy has evolved throughout the century it has been in business. As CVS, it is the second largest pharmacy chain in the United States. It has more 7600 stores, and it is ranked the 13 largest company in the world by Fortune 500 in 2013. (Walgreen Vs. CVS) This paper would examine the positioning and differentiation strategies between Walgreens and CVS. * The creation of remedies for illnesses and ailments have been discovered by people since the beginning of existence. The first organized apothecary had been credited to the Babylon. Later followed by the Roman, who discovered a system of pathology and therapy which became the standards for medicine for more than a 1,000 years. While pharmacy was consider as a shadowy and sketchy business of a long time, practiced by witch doctors. As the renaissance era entered in, medicine and treatments became more structured with a scientific approach. “In 1240, German Emperor Frederick II issued a proclamation...
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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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... 1.1 THE IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNICATION: 1.2 BARRIERS TO COMMUNICATION 1.3 OVERCOMING BARRIERS 1.4 TEN COMMANDMENTS OF EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION 1.5 NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION 1.6 VARIETIES OF NON VERBAL COMMUNICATION 1.7 OMMUNICATION PRINCIPLES: 1.8 USING COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 1.7 FACE TO FACE COMMUNICATION UNIT 2 16 PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNICATION 2.1 CLARITY 2.2 COMPLETENESS 2.3 CONCISENESS 2.4 CONSIDERATION 2.5 COURTESY 2.6 CORRECTNESS 2.7 THE PURPOSE AND VALUE OF COMMITTEES UNIT 3 26 EFFECTIVE MEETINGS 3.1 TYPES OF MEETING 3.2 VIRTUAL MEETINGS 3.3 PLANNING A PROBLEM SOLVING MEETING 3.4 SETTING AN AGENDA UNIT 4 32 DEVELOPING THE PRESENTATION 4.1 INTRODUCTION 4.2 ANALYSING THE SITUATION 4.3 ESTABLISHING A PURPOSE 4.4 DEVELOPING THE THESIS 4.5 ON GIVING A SPEECH 4.6 PROFILE OF A GOOD SPEAKER 4.7 PLANNING TO SPEAK UNIT 5 41 THE ART OF WRITING 5.1 WRITING WELL 5.2 MEMOS & LETTERS 5.3 THE BUSINESS LETTER 5.4 E-MAIL 5.5 WRITING FOR EMPLOYMENT 5.6 TYPES OF CVS 5.7 ELECTRONIC CVS 5.8 JOB APPLICATION LETTERS 5.9 REPORTS BIBLIOGRAPHY 67 INTRODUCTION Welcome to the next module of your course of study in commerce. The purpose of the this module is to familiarize you with some key issues underlying the notions of communications – a very important aspects of any successful business. The first unit is about understanding ‘business communication skills’. We will see why good communication...
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...275 2829 For opening times see website. Write a great CV... from scratch ` This publication is available in alternative formats on request. Enquire at the information desk or email careers@manchester.ac.uk Last Updated: September 2008 www.manchester.ac.uk/careers Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Introduction ................................................................................................ 2 What are employers looking for? .................................................. 2 What do you have to offer-where is the evidence? ........... 3 CV types Content .................................................................................................... 5 6 ....................................................................................................... Presentation ............................................................................................. 8 Important mistakes to avoid ......................................................... 10 Words which make an impact ................................................... 13 An example of a chronological and skills based CV .... 14 Check your CV ..................................................................................... 18 Further help .......................................................................................... 18 1 1. Introduction It is easy to produce a good generic CV that is a basic summary of your experiences. Recruiters...
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...“IT Doesn’t Matter” Assignment Assunta P. Cuccia BUAD 867 February 19, 2010 In the national bestseller, Good to Great, Collins devotes a chapter to Technology Accelerators in which he posits provocatively “The real question is not, What is the role of technology? Rather, the real question is, How do good-to-great organizations think differently about technology?” The value of Information Technology (IT) is based on how it is aligned with a company’s business model, core competencies and strategies so that a competitive advantage can be sustained. Today’s commerce is heavily dependent on IT, and as stated in Chapter 1, page 47 of our textbook, “IT is a powerful tool for defining, organizing and building knowledge assets within a firm and a business network.” Although Nicholas Carr’s article has an inflammatory title, “IT Doesn’t Matter,” the main points suggest otherwise. IT does matter but it matters differently. This article was published in 2003, a few years following the dot-com bubble burst. During the Internet’s halcyon days from 1994 to 2000, the businesses created were the result of IT innovations, and this changed the way business interacted with the environment. This led to IT becoming more visible and pervasive in business and at the same time evolving towards commodity status. IT is an essential part and cost of doing business globally “but provide distinction to none.” There are several industries that managed IT in a manner conferring competitive...
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...enrich the work experience. Apart from that, we have to learn what a good resume is due to the great importance of a resume, it is the key to get the interview offered by the human resources department. Then we have to think about how to perform well in the interview. Among the lessons before, I learned a lot of practical and useful knowledge from guest speaker. Their presentation is very detailed and all round. They described from their university life to their graduation, they taught us a lot what we can prepare for out future. They showed us if we want to get a job, it does not only depend on self’s own ability and education level, but also our well preparation. What impresses me the most is about how to write a good resume, as I always think that I just need to fill in my personal information as well as my basic qualifications and work experience. A top-quality CV will considerably boost our chance of getting a face-to-face interview, so it is worth spending time and effort on the content and presentation. It will make all the difference in obtaining the position you want. We must therefore highlight our skills, expertise and value. Employers can receive many resume for a job which has been advertised so it is important to create a good impression to attract their attention. Most people do not spend as much time on their resume like what I did before, so if i write a professional, high quality CV you will stand out from the rest. Before, I also learned a lot when...
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...popularity among the people of Bangladesh with its well known products like ACI Pure Salt, Savlon etc. It is the human resource who has maximized the success of the company. Recruitment and selection practices are the key factors to the entry point of human resources which ensures the success and growth of an organization. In this study the detail chain and sequence of activities pertaining to recruitment and selection of different level of management and non-management employable candidates has identified through literature review of the documents of ACI HR and from experience of working in the HR department of ACI and personal observation of the process. This case study maybe useful to ACI to identify its loopholes and may allow it to practice good recruitment and selection process that could help the company to get suitable candidate and also helpful for researcher to do more research on recruitment and selection process. Keywords: ACI Limited, recruitment and selection, FMCG Company CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Recruitment & Selection in Bangladesh Recruitment and selection process is the function of human resource management which brings the human resource in the organization Ongori (2010). Recruitment is the process of generating a pool of applicant to apply for employment to an organization and selection is the process by which specific tools are used to choose from a pool of applicants’ the most suitable one for the job taking into consideration...
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...Are you already preparing for a job interview and you’re anxious to make the best impression possible? Or maybe you’re in the process of creating a CV so that you can start applying for relevant positions? Whichever is the case, you may want to make sure you’re using relevant job-seeking related phrases and expressions! If you do so, you’ll definitely increase your chances of getting picked for the position because you’ll sound just like your native English speaking counterparts. So without further ado, let’s get down to business and see exactly what smart English phrases you should use in your CV and during your job interviews! Describing Your Profile I’m a wide profile sales/marketing/customer support professional – this is a general phrase used to describe industry/-ies you’re been working in. If you say ‘wide profile’ instead of just ‘I’ve been working in …’, it will sound smarter and more professional! I perform well under pressure is a phrase you can use to describe that you’re an employee very well capable of working when there’s a lot of pressure and you’ll do your best to get things done. I’m used to working in a busy environment – similar to the previous one, and you can use it interchangeably with ‘I perform well under pressure’ during an interview so that you don’t constantly repeat yourself. Customer-orientated means you value customers and you’ll be polite and efficient when dealing with them. Remember – customers are life-blood of every business, so this...
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