CV feedback

[marakana88]

This forum has a lot of entrepreneurs, so I want to ask your opinion of my CV, and what can I improve?

Information


I am final year International Business Management student with a keen interest in Marketing. I am a motivated, enthusiastic and responsible individual, have excellent marketing and IT skills. I am fluent in English, Russian and Ukrainian with excellent communication skills and sales ability.


Work Experience




Self-Employment. London May 2019 to present

App Developer


Developed my own app called Lecture Scriber which help students with their studying. This experience taught me how to market campaigns for app (AdWords, Social Media, Email Marketing), how to control and analyse sales, and what marketing strategy needs to be considered. Additionally, I learned how to work in a team with developers, give them right tasks to complete, put the right deadline for them and manage their work.


InnoLine. London June 2019 to September 2019

Sales Agent


Represented different Food Factories in the UK from Eastern and Central Europe. Main responsibilities were to find small/medium distributors/producers of food in UK and sell to them an exclusive product from EU. To develop the sales strategy and marketing plan for each company in order to sign a contract with them. As part of this role, I improved my key skills for b2b sales, presentation and time management skills. Developed several useful connections in different spheres of the market.


Self-Employment. London September 2017 to September 2019

Personal Football Coach


I worked as a personal coach with footballers, prepared them for tournaments and helped them recover after injury. I improved my marketing and CRM skills. In order to promote my service and find new clients set up online and offline marketing campaign. This work improved my marketing, communication, analytical, managerial and leadership skills.



ADSEC Group Limited. London April 2016 to present

Receptionist


My responsibilities were to deal with customers and solve any problems and issues which come up. On the day to day basis communicating with clients verbally, via email and telephone. This job helped me to improve my communication skills, providing good customer service, have good attention to details, ability to solve problems with the customers.




Education


London Metropolitan University

Start October 2017 to June 2020

BSc (Honours): International Business Management

(Predicted 1st class honours degree)


As part of my course I studied principles of transnational business marketing and management, digital marketing, corporate reputation, economics, business law, politics of EU, and business research methods. Additionally, taking part in Universities Business Challenge as marketing analysts. At the moment I am doing research on “how the sponsorship of lower league football clubs can increase the brand awareness of the business?”. Through my degree I have developed great analytical and leadership skills. Well-developed IT skills – Microsoft Office (Excel, World, PowerPoint), Adobe (Photoshop, XD), SPSS, WordPress.


SCL College

September 2014 to June 2017

BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Sport (Merit)


I finished SCL college in FC Barking academy. Within 3 years of studying in this course I learnt main principles of anatomy, athlete’s lifestyle and nutrition, how to assess risk in sport, physiology and psychology in sport, as well as how to create fitness, technical and tactical program for athletes. Have practical experience of couching in FC Barking. Through my studying I developed good managerial and leadership skills.


Achievements


- Online Digital Marketing Course Certificate

- Customer Service Relationship Management Certificate

- FA Level 1 Coaching License

- Participate in University Business Challenge

- Driving Licence

- Football Capitan in FC Barking


Interests


My main hobby is football, I am playing for football team every Sunday.

In free from work and study time, I go to gym or play tennis. Additionally, I like to read business books as in the future planning to have my own business.

 

[fisicx]

Depends on the job you are applying for. But skimming the titles (which is what most recruiters will do) you don’t seem to have done a lot of marketing so probably not.

 

[marakana88]

Depends on the job you are applying for. But skimming the titles (which is what most recruiters will do) you don’t seem to have done a lot of marketing so probably not.

Thanks, how do you think I can improve my CV?
Do you think I should go to unpaid work just to get some experience?

 

[The Byre]

You need to tidy up your English - you have left the definite and indefinite article out here and there. You are probably of East European origin and yet you have not mentioned that fact or the fact that you are bilingual, which is a major asset! Good employers are looking for people who can think outside the box and coming from another country helps to be able to find new solutions to old problems and new ways of doing things.

I would not mention the desire to own your own company.

As @fisicx states, more marketing experience would be desirable, but hey! We all have to learn and gain experience all our lives. A sports-related job in marketing could be the right course to take.

 

[fisicx]

Thanks, how do you think I can improve my CV?
Do you think I should go to unpaid work just to get some experience?

You write your CV to match the job advert. If you want a job in marketing everything on the page should be written to focus on marketing. The app for example is irrelevant. Talk about how successful the marketing was for an app not about the app.

 

[marakana88]

You need to tidy up your English - you have left the definite and indefinite article out here and there. You are probably of East European origin and yet you have not mentioned that fact or the fact that you are bilingual, which is a major asset! Good employers are looking for people who can think outside the box and coming from another country helps to be able to find new solutions to old problems and new ways of doing things.

I would not mention the desire to own your own company.

As @fisicx states, more marketing experience would be desirable, but hey! We all have to learn and gain experience all our lives. A sports-related job in marketing could be the right course to take.

Thank you for your feedback, i will give my CV for someone to proofread. I think I mentioned about bilingual in my first paragraph.
I mentioned the desire to own my own company because it is the only one good experience in marketing which I had.
I will have look for a sports-related job in marketing. Thank you for you feedback, I appreciate

 

[marakana88]

You write your CV to match the job advert. If you want a job in marketing everything on the page should be written to focus on marketing. The app for example is irrelevant. Talk about how successful the marketing was for an app not about the app.

okay, I understand. Thank you

 

[The Byre]

I think I mentioned about bilingual in my first paragraph.

Sorry - yes, I missed that. Silly me!

Trilingual - even better!

I would also look at positions as a buyer. Your East European language skills and background would be extremely useful there.

If I were you, my first letter would be heading to the Aldi management trainee department, followed by Lidl. They are looking for people like you!

 

[marakana88]

Sorry - yes, I missed that. Silly me!

Trilingual - even better!

I would also look at positions as a buyer. Your East European language skills and background would be extremely useful there.

If I were you, my first letter would be heading to the Aldi management trainee department, followed by Lidl. They are looking for people like you!

Thanks for the advice, never thought about that.

 

[The Byre]

Aldi is possibly the best employer in retail anywhere. And their trainee management people get £44k plus car. Aldi and Lidl are German companies so they expect people to work very hard and produce results which puts many Brits off!

I would not fixate on marketing simply because buying is in the end more interesting in my opinion. I have always thought that a good product at the right price more or less sells itself, one just has to get the message out there. Finding that product at the right price is the hard part!

Good hunting!

 

[marakana88]

Aldi is possibly the best employer in retail anywhere. And their trainee management people get £44k plus car. Aldi and Lidl are German companies so they expect people to work very hard and produce results which puts many Brits off!

I would not fixate on marketing simply because buying is in the end more interesting in my opinion. I have always thought that a good product at the right price more or less sells itself, one just has to get the message out there. Finding that product at the right price is the hard part!

Good hunting!

I agree. Of course, the price is always going to be the most important aspect which people are considering before purchase. However, marketing is essential when it comes to competition. When you compete with someone in the same price range, I believe that in this case marketing is very important.

 

[Jeff FV]

I would put your expectation of gaining a first in your degree in the opening paragraph, perhaps something like this:

“I am final year International Business Management student (predicted 1st class honours) ...”

Also keep it in your section about your education.

 

[marakana88]

I would put your expectation of gaining a first in your degree in the opening paragraph, perhaps something like this:

“I am final year International Business Management student (predicted 1st class honours) ...”

Also keep it in your section about your education.

Oh yeah, good idea.Actually, 1st class honours degree achieved ))

 

[antropy]

There are lots of overlaps with roles so expect questions about this and how you time managed during your time at University (not a bad thing just to be aware). Alex

 

[RCoombes]

Some of my tips to add to those above.

1. Bulletpoint Achievements & Responsibilities under your job roles
2. Achievements should be down as "Certifications" it seems
3. Write achievements using the XYZ method ( I achieved X by doing Y, measured by Z)

Recruiters like to easily see what you've done within a role and achieved.

An quick, rushed example based on your CV:

Sales Agent
- Responsible for UK sales for Eastern and Central European Food Manufacturers.
- Increased Sales (x) by developing a new sales strategy (y) that produced 20%? closed sales (z)
- Produced 4 marketing plans to achieve something and succeeded/failed.
- Presenting quarterly results to key stakeholders
- Managed and developed long term relationships within the industry

Show what you did and what you achieved, this above isn't something to copy, but just an example of how I prefer to write a CV and I look for when hiring.