{"id":109,"date":"2013-03-18T17:25:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T17:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2013-03-18T17:25:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T17:25:38","slug":"how-to-get-your-cv-in-the-bin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/how-to-get-your-cv-in-the-bin\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Get Your CV In The Bin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting article provided by the HEA and based on the experiences of a real (but anonymous) recruiter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heacademy.ac.uk\/resources\/detail\/subjects\/escalate\/2774_Unlucky_13_-_13_reasons_why_I_\">Unlucky 13 &#8211; 13 Reasons Why I Binned Your CV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It goes through the problem of taking 114 applications and having to get down to a shortlist of 20 as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve certainly spotted many of these problems with CVs, so this could be usefully used as a &#8220;checklist&#8221; to ensure that the CV passes the &#8220;bin test&#8221; used by many recruiters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting article provided by the HEA and based on the experiences of a real (but anonymous) recruiter. Unlucky 13 &#8211; 13 Reasons Why I Binned Your CV It goes through the problem of taking 114 applications and having to get down to a shortlist of 20 as quickly as possible. I&#8217;ve certainly spotted &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/how-to-get-your-cv-in-the-bin\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How To Get Your CV In The Bin<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[59,12,60],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employability","tag-cv","tag-employability","tag-job-applications"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Thomas Lancaster","author_link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/author\/thomas-lancaster\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Here&#8217;s an interesting article provided by the HEA and based on the experiences of a real (but anonymous) recruiter. Unlucky 13 &#8211; 13 Reasons Why I Binned Your CV It goes through the problem of taking 114 applications and having to get down to a shortlist of 20 as quickly as possible. I&#8217;ve certainly spotted&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}