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[sejintenej]

When I was interviewing people the very first thing I looked for in a CV was "outside interests"; I didn't want people who were 110% workaholics.

Unfortunately a number of agencies used to rewrite CVs before sending them and leave out any reference to the outside interests ; some were persuaded to attach a photocopy of what the applicant had written and the one agency which refused had all its CVs refused as not filling the requirements. They were not happy bunnies at learning that we wouldn't even read their CVs - they got so irate at one pioint that my secretary refused to put their calls through

[cj]

But going along the US model Morgan Stanley being an example, even what you do outside work is used to assess an application, don't you read John Grisham?

It would take a propsective employer years to read through most of our posts on here!

[blondie95]

good point Cath, if a prespective empolyer looked at our schooling and diceded to look at CH stumbled across this forum...a)there would be a lot to read and b) they may form unjust ideas about us