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LearnEnglish Professionals
WRITING A CV AUDIOSCRIPT
Listen to a Human Resources professional who is giving some advice on writing better CVs.
Optional activity:
While you listen, decide whether the following sentences are true or false.
Sentence
True or false?
1. Part of John Woodrow’s job is deciding which new people his company will
employ.
2. Woodrow reads hundreds of CVs every month.
3. His company do not accept CVs.
4. Woodrow’s company keeps lists of potential employees on a computer.
5. Woodrow will ignore a CV which is too long.
6. He thinks the first CV he looks at is too short.
7. One problem with the first CV is that it includes irrelevant information.
8. Woodrow suggests that placements are not important when describing your
experience.
9. The second CV has too much space on it.
10. The second CV includes information about the languages the person can speak.
11. Woodrow is only interested in people who can speak Spanish.
Q = Interviewer; A = HR professional
Q: Learn English Professionals is talking to John Woodrow, who works in the Human Resources department
of a large UK-based company. John, tell us about your work...
A: I work on recruitment, especially – so I’m the person who reads the hundreds of CVs we get sent each year!
Q: Do you accept CVs as part of your recruitment process?
A: When we advertise for a particular post, we send out our own application form, which is tailored to our
company, and we can use it to make sure we find exactly what we’re looking for...
Q: So a CV is useless?
A: No! Not at all – we’re happy to accept CVs from people even when we’re not recruiting. That way we can
build up a database of possible candidates, and as our company is always changing – we’re very flexible in our
needs right now (laughs) – it’s good to know what kind of people are out there. We do keep everything on file,
and will get back to people who look promising.
Q: So we should be sending you our CVs?
A: Yes, absolutely, yes!
Q: What advice can you give us on writing a CV?
A: Keep it short, keep it simple, keep it relevant. Anything longer than three pages will automatically go into
the bin. Just tell us what we need to know. Make sure it’s clearly written – and that there are no spelling
www.britishcouncil.org/professionals.htm
© The British Council, 2009
The United Kingdom’s international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations. We are registered in England as a charity.
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LearnEnglish Professionals
WRITING A CV AUDIOSCRIPT
mistakes on it! And no fancy fonts...or photographs. We don’t need to know what people look like, just what
they’ve done, and what they’re capable of...
Q: So we’re going to look at a couple of CVs now...
A: Yes – these are a couple that arrived just this morning, so let’s take a look...(sound of paper unfolding)...ok,
I can see straight away that we have a good one and a bad one here...
Q: (laughs) How can you tell so soon?
A: Well, as I just said, this one here is...how many...one,two, three, four pages long, it’s written in tiny type, I
can hardly read it...and, wait, yes, there’s a photograph attached to the front!
Q: Too much information?
A: Yes...just leafing through it, I can see he’s written about where he went to primary school – that’s just not
relevant...
Q: What kind of educational background should be included?
A: Perhaps your high school, but it’s mostly further education we’re interested in, university or college, then
any professional qualifications you may have, as well as work experience of course...
Q: That’s important?
A: Oh yes – placements or internships all count!
Q: What about personal information?
A: A bit is necessary...but look, this guy has written he was a member of the stamp collecting society in
secondary school...! Not interested...
Q: What about the other CV?
A: Ok, again, I can see right away this looks more promising...only two and a half pages, lots of space on the
page, easy to read, well-organised. Hmmm, a couple of impressive looking references, that’s good. And, yes,
they’ve included language skills – very important...
Q: What languages are you looking for?
A: Well, English, obviously – as we’re a UK-based company and English is still the language of global
business, and then, well, anything really – Spanish is useful, Russian, Mandarin Chinese too...
Q: Ok, we’ll get studying! Thanks John!
Answer key: 1T; 2F; 3F; 4T; 5T; 6F; 7T; 8F; 9F; 10T; 11F.
www.britishcouncil.org/professionals.htm
© The British Council, 2009
The United Kingdom’s international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations. We are registered in England as a charity.
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