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go4java · Newbie Joined: 17 May 2008 Posts: 2 Career Advice: +0/-0

Hi all,

below my actual CV draft, which I will have to present on monday (Germany).
The company ist based in Germany, I'm German and the employees come from 30 different nations. It's an internal job change from IT to Marketing/Communications and I will be responsible for the Website.

OBJECTIVE

In the position as Web Specialist + Information Broker:
- Consolidate Webcontents to one Central Data Storage.
- Support ... in terms of Content + Knowledgemanagement (Livelink Replacement, Universal Search etc.)

SKILLS SUMMARY

• International Experience (Switzerland, France, Italy, Nigeria, Libya, South Africa) in the fields of Surveying, Oil Industry + Construction (Expatriate with Managerial Functions)
• Sales Engineer for Industrial Measurement Instruments
• High-Performance Software Development – Banking Treasury
• System Analyst – Travel Industry
• Business System Analyst – High Tech Industry

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

• Leading implementation of Sales Project Tracking System
• Leading construction of Distribution Salesout System
• Connecting Application Service Providers (ASP) to ... Intranet (...) – Single Sign-On
• Promoting the idea of a Central Knowledge Sharing Platform (... etc.)
• Leading implementation of the Web Application Display Repair Centre
• Leading design of company electronic Forms (...)
• Defining requirements to use the Company Directory Service (LDAP) as resource for various employee data (Role, Mail, Name etc.)
• Leading construction of ... Integrated Time Sheet, a system to capture Engineering hours
• Leading implementation of the ... Web Portal, with state of the art technique XSL/XML
• Leading development of web-enabled ... Customer Registration
• Constructing SAP Enterprise Portal

EDUCATION

• 1988 University of Applied Sciences ..., Geoinformatics
• 2001 Fernuniversität ..., Wirtschaftswissenschaft
• 2004 University ..., Online MBA

OTHER SKILLS

• Financial Awareness
• Ability to learn and adopt quickly
• Advanced Communication Skills
• Ability to promote new ideas

REFERENCES

Available upon request.

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What do you think about this CV, any errors or should I add something/remove/change? Any professional help is highly welcome! Thank you!!!

Pauloz · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 11:09 am Post subject:

go4java

This is a matter of the right targeting.

You have some obvious sales experience, but marketing and sales aren't necessarily the same thing, in context with this job. You need to indicate some experience in the marketing area, or a related field. Sales is OK, but there are only two mentions, and they don't seem to fit the website environment.

Depending on the job, the communications area is also a bit blank, like no direct communications qualifications or other related material. I'd add whatever you have, anything that you know relates to the communications part of the job. Obviously you have some communications skills having worked in the managerial role, but they're not shown.

Generally, I think you should spell out your employment record, and show your skills and achievements more clearly.

In detail:

Skills Summary: When, where, and with whom ?

Achievements: Same as skills summary. Particularly emphasize anything in marketing and communications.

Education:

1988 University of Applied Sciences ..., Geoinformatics (Degree?)
• 2001 Fernuniversität ..., Wirtschaftswissenschaft (Degree?)
• 2004 University ..., Online MBA (Which university?)

I think the lack of this information could undermine your obvious career record.

From the look of this CV, you know your IT. You know at least some sales, and you have direct experience in managerial work. Your technical side is good.

But it's not clear that you'd be a natural choice for Marketing/Communications in website management.

If you have direct experience of input into the actual website, or anything to do with it, you need to establish your connection to the job's role and duties.

I don't want to sound too negative, but these are clear priorities.

go4java · Newbie Joined: 17 May 2008 Posts: 2 Career Advice: +0/-0

Thanks, Pauloz. Your information is of great help!

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