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This is Show Me The Money, your weekly guide to who's making the | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
cash, how they're doing it, and what it means for the way we work. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
With us tonight, it's banking but not as you'd know it. Craig | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
Donaldson is in charge of Metro Bank. Shock, horror - it's even | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
open on a Sunday. Maggie Pagano is Business Editor at the Independent | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
on Sunday but writes during the week too. And Fraser Doherty has | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
been enjoying the sweet taste of success since he set up his jam | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
making business as a teenager - he now supplies over 1,000 | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
supermarkets. Riots on the streets of Athens tonight, as MPs debate | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
the latest package of cuts. This is the scene outside Parliament right | :00:57. | :01:07. | |
now. Sorry, this is inside the parliament building. MPs are | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
debating further massive cuts demanded by other European nations | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
before they will cough up the �100 billion bail-out that was agreed | :01:13. | :01:21. | |
with Greece last year. Outside that parliament building throughout the | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
day, violent scenes of riots, buildings on fire and scenes of | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
clashes between riot police and protesters. Maggie, let's get your | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
thoughts on this first of all. It's not the first time that we've had | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
disorder in Athens, it's not the first parliamentary debate over | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
these cuts. What is the end game here? The week don't know. But what | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
seems to be very dangerous is what ever happens tonight, whether they | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
vote for the bail-out or not, this is not going to end. In a few | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
months' time they will be renegotiating for more money. | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
Whilst the Prime Minister and the others are warning and saying, you | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
must vote otherwise it is disaster. Actually, it's going to be disaster | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
either way, and it could be that a devaluation of are or should | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
essayed a fault, it could well be the answer. Greece saying, we can't | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
afford to pay you back. absolutely. It doesn't have to be | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
forever. They could rejoin us in five years' time. That might be a | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
more attractive option to some of the protesters we see on the scene | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
now. This is early in Athens, where protesters threw rocks and lumps of | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
marble and petrol bombs at the police. The riot police responded | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
by firing tear-gas, before they eventually cleared the square in | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
front of the parliament. The disturbances continued in other | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
streets in central Athens. Those people are furious. They feel this | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
has been imposed on them, this austerity has been imposed on them | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
by their own government, by financial leaders in places like | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
Germany and they have had enough. They are furious and confused. | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
Already 20 % of the population are unemployed. Wages have already been | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
cut and they are now going to be asked to take more medicine. | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
Meanwhile, the politicians have been taking their own money for | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
years, they know that there is huge corruption and quite right be you | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
can understand they are angry. Craig Donaldson, it is a banking | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
crisis which has been after -- the trigger for these events for the | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
unrest in Athens, for the financial catastrophe in Europe and the | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
United States. What does the banking industry make of this? | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
be honest, I don't think it's about the banking industry. To me, it's | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
about what commercial customers are making of this. They want to have a | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
resolution and one to know the way forward. Because they can't plan | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
with what is going on. Is it going Daborn, isn't it going to happen? | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
Even if it doesn't happen, is it going to happen in the future? They | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
need certainty for the future so they can plan for it and move on. | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
While Athens Burns, while the debate continues in Greece, while | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
there is financial uncertainty across Europe, here in this country | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
the possibility of another recession holds back confidence in | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
Britain. It worsens. It does. People are thinking, where do I go, | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
what do I do? Until they have clarity, and that is what is needed | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
for Greece, they won't invest the money they are sitting on. | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
wondering how far down the business community this percolates. Does the | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
uncertainty in Greece reached your business, does it make you think | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
twice about expanding in Europe or recruiting new people because of | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
that drop in confidence? I wouldn't say so. For me, it is a tragedy. My | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
heart goes out to the Greek people for the suffering they are having | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
to go through. But definitely you worry about the future of Europe, | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
the euro. We sell a lot of our products in European countries. We | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
hope it can be resolved. We hear this from entrepreneurs and they | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
say he's actually, they are so busy just keeping there is this going | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
from day to day, they have to keep their heads down and just carry on | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
running the business and let everything else effectively washed | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
over them. Absolutely, yes. The it does affect the banks. The banks | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
are not lending to each other and that is part of the paralysis. | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
will keep you up-to-date with events in Athens tonight. We will | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
bring you back there as soon as there is more to report. For now, | :05:42. | :05:52. | |
we take a look at Bowmore bust. -- boom or bust. It's something that | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
keeps zoo keepers awake at night. What do you do if your rhino | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
escapes? This zoo in Tokyo is preparing for such an event with | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
this fake rhino escape exercise. They didn't want to risk it with | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
the real thing, so two workers dressed up as the rhino. | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
Unfortunately it meant one of them had to be subdued with a rather | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
large tranquiliser dart. As you'll know, all rhino are specially | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
trained to stand still when a net is put over them. Exercise. It's | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
never too early to start. This is a baby playing ping-pong. Jamie is 18 | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
months-old. His dad is already a table tennis pro. And he's not at | :06:27. | :06:36. | |
all pushy in wanting his son to follow in his footsteps. A cat in a | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
hat or a dog in a dress. Clothing for pets is big business. We spend | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
over �30 million on it a year and that will rise to �35 million by | :06:45. | :06:54. | |
2015. It covers everything from the deeply unfashionable functional | :06:54. | :07:04. | |
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coats through to fancy dress items Good luck trying to get a week on | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
to any cat I've come across! Let's start with the rhino. The business | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
model is you have to be prepared for pretty much everything. | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
Absolutely. For me, that's about your culture. You've got to know | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
things will go wrong and can go wrong, and you've got to be ready | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
to react and be proactive. What is the most ludicrous thing that you | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
have prepared for in your scenario planning? With the petrol crisis we | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
had several years ago, trying to get people in... I'm not sure it is | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
ludicrous, but we've had been sent to London, you get used to dealing | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
with a lot of testing for bombs. serious issue for pretty much any | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
business. The news from the courts over the last fortnight demonstrate | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
that all businesses need to be on their guard. For all this | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
preparation, the banking industry didn't spot the crisis coming. | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
think some people did, some people didn't. There were a lot of people | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
in hindsight who wishes they'd spoken earlier. I think that's true | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
of most things. Not just confined to the banking industry either. | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
Many in the media world wished they had spotted it before it arrived as | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
well. Next Talk About the Baby tennis player. You seemed to be | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
enjoying that. Is it ever too young to start developing your skills in | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
life? No, definitely. I started my business at 14. That was inspired | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
by my grandmother. She wasn't quite as pushy as the parent in that | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
video, but she shared her love of making jam with me and I decided to | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
start making it myself as a hobby. Eventually it became a career. | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
the time it was a family bonding movement, it wasn't in the back of | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
your mind immediately that it would be the way you would earn your | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
money in the future. No, as a kid you would never imagine that an | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
afternoon spent making jam with your gran would lead to a career. | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
When was the thunderbolt moment when you realised you could make a | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
decent business out of it? I had the idea to try to make jam 100 % | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
from roots, without adding sugar. I had the opportunity to pitch my | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
idea to one of the big supermarkets and meet the Byers, the X Factor of | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
selling groceries to supermarkets. Hundreds of people show up. I got | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
the chance to pit my idea. That was my big break. When they told me I | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
had a great idea, that was when I believed I could hopefully make it | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
my career. Unless you've been in your position and you'd dealt with | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
the supermarkets, you don't really know that this happens. How does it | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
work? The supermarkets get in touch with people that might be able to | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
supply them, or do you spend years ringing them up and sending them | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
begging e-mails and some day they graciously relent and invite you to | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
come along? I can't speak highly enough about Waitrose. I of course | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
not, they are buying your product! They were willing to here an idea | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
from a 17-year-old Tade. That's probably a story that people don't | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
imagine would come about from a supermarket. They were very | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
supportive. A lot of people get their break supplying supermarkets. | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
I was lucky enough to get it. Maggie, we hear so much criticism | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
of the younger generation today. They are lazy, they don't want to | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
work, they haven't got the skills. Here is a nice antidote. It's a | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
fantastic story, great credit to you. By showing Fraser as an | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
example, I thought what you said about earlier on about having no | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
fear. You can't take no for an answer. All the great entrepreneurs | :10:38. | :10:46. | |
I have met who are people who are driven. And often with parents who | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
lent them money or support. I think they say people who support | :10:52. | :11:01. | |
business - friends, foes and families. That is unbelievably | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
important. The cat in hat and the dog in the dress. Of course we are | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
dotty about animals in this country. It does show. You can spot the | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
market and make money out of it however ludicrous it seems. I would | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
hope there's a ceiling for that market! Do you look at the cats and | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
think, I wish I'd got into that? People buy the craziest things | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
sometimes. Your business, you are not about pandering to pet owners. | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
You give free biscuits, free water to dogs. Water voles and biscuits, | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
but that's about customers being welcome. You can bring your Dobbin | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
because they want to look after the customers, so why wouldn't we look | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
after their dog or cat? We've even had a rabbit brought into the store. | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
It takes all sorts. They have to be segregated if you are going to have | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
a mini The Nar Cherie in the bank. To be honest, no. But that is the | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
disaster recovery you were talking about earlier. We make sure we have | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
the dog cleaning up its. Let's talk about Metro bank. The thing about | :12:05. | :12:13. | |
the dogs and cats, there are other things you've done. It -- you are | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
open on Sunday. It will come as a revelation that banks want to do | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
business on those days. Your background is in the banking | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
industry. You worked with the old banks - Barclays, HSBC, RBS. Why | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
are those ideas not tried out in those traditional banks? Something | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
you were saying about Fraser early on, you've got to be willing to do | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
this, you've got to believe in what you want to do and do it. They | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
don't. They believe the only way they can be profitable is to cut | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
costs. Lay people off. It is not true. Offering service and | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
convenience, giving customers what they want, great value, is what you | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
need to do. But you remember the time when banks were getting rid of | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
the bank manager in the branch and replacing them with a call centre | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
somewhere. It was sold as better customer service. You were dealing | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
with dedicated people who had a better grasp of your finances and | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
the world of finance than some old duffer in an office. I don't | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
believe we have the old duffers, but I do believe people want to | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
talk to real people. Whether that is on the phone, face-to-face in | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
store, people should have the choice. What we offer is seven days | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
a week, 24/7, people have a choice to talk to somebody. Do you think | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
it was a mistake for the bank to have dislocated itself from its | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
customers in that way? Yes, and I'm not sure it's changing apart from | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
people like us saying, we are seven-days-a-week, we want to see | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
customers and support them. many customers as an organisation | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
like yours me to get before the other big banks on the High Street | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
Notice and change their ways? not sure they can. They have got | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
legacy culture, platform, technology and premises. What we | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
have got our people who want to serve customers. We've got | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
technology to support them and great locations so it's easy for | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
customers to get to us. If banks are in the news, it's often in | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
connection with the word bonus. Do you think bankers have become hate | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
figures? No. I think somehow, I think most customers and most | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
people understand that the vast majority of people who work for | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
banks, the person you see as you put money across the counter, they | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
are they're trying to do a good job. We get a lot of texts from people | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
who work in bank branches to save not to tar them with the same brush. | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
It is very difficult when you have someone like Bob Diamond getting �3 | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
million in bonus. Do you think he deserves it? I don't know what he | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
does day-by-day and Vedova what is top its work. To me, that's about | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
do we trust the corporate governance? Do we believe that | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
Barclays have the right corporate governance in place? We've all been | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
reading about it. There is strong corporate governance that has been | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
played out, challenging whether the chief executive of the board should | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
be paid that much money. Does Barclays have that? I don't know. | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
Do you think that Bob Diamond embarrasses the rest of the banking | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
industry? I don't know if he embarrasses it. Do you feel | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
embarrassed by it? No, because I'm proud of what I do so I don't think | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
about Bob Diamond or Barclays. I'm trying to do something that I | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
believe in and I'm proud of. We are creating jobs, winning customers | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
and are out there as a traditional bank, getting customers to love us | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
and want to be with us. Why would I want to think about Bob Diamond? | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
We've created 400 jobs in the last 18 months. We will create another | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
300 and will be over 1000 by the end of next year. Why would I want | :15:43. | :15:53. | |
We always like to hear about businesses which are expanding and | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
creating jobs in these difficult times. When you say you are looking | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
for people, what type of people are you looking for? What are the | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
attributes they have to have? absolutely wants a happy attitude. | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
We want people to smile. When a customer walks through the door, I | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
want people to want to get up and say, how can I help you? It is not | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
about the skills, it is the attitude. So many bosses say this. | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
The skills which we are all told to make our central on the CV are not | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
the things you look at at all? want people to be bright and hard- | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
working but most of all I want people who want to do the job. We | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
are a growing. People who join us who want careers, they will work | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
harder to do the right thing to get back Korea. How do you assess that? | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
The CV gets sent in, then you have a telephone interview, a panel | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
interview and then you would either be in or not. You want to make sure | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
you do not recruit the wrong person because it is difficult to get rid | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
of them? If you have a strong culture, people select themselves | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
out. We have a lot of people who say, good luck with what you're | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
doing, it is not for us. Week interviewed 1,000 people. It is | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
important that you invest, recruit the right people and then trained | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
them to do the job. Thank you. We will talk more about that later | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
but I want to take you back to Athens. The debate is continuing in | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
the Greek parliament tonight. They are debating about the package of | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
cuts which have been demanded of Greece by the European nations that | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
are providing the second bail-out for Greece. This is the �100 | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
billion bail-out that was promised back in October last year. The | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
funding has yet to be released. Greece needs that money as a result | :17:49. | :17:57. | |
of some urgency. It has some substantial debts coming due for | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
payment on 20th March. Just a month away. As you well know, if you | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
follow these events closely, the way it works is that nations like | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
grease are borrowing the money all the time so they can have the cash | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
to pay back the old debts as they become due. Greece cannot borrow in | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
the traditional way from the money markets because the rate of | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
interest that is being charged there is pretty -- prohibitively | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
above what national governments can afford, hence the need for a bail- | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
out from other European nations. That debate is continuing as I talk | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
to. We are expecting the result in an hour or so but the timings are | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
somewhat fluid and we will keep you up-to-date throughout the night | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
here on BBC News. To stop everyone whingeing about | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
the big fat bonuses, the banks promised to lend more money to | :18:46. | :18:56. | |
business. Look how that turned out. The banks did not cough up. Maggie, | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
it sounds like a billion pound is not a lot between friends, but | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
these targets in the mind of small businesses are worse than useless | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
because it was not the money that the banks handed over, it was the | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
money that the banks handed -- said here is our lovely table of loans, | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
if you give us your first-born, you can have it. Absolutely. One of the | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
first banks which was caught out was a RBS. Going back to what we | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
said earlier on, the banks are not going to start lending again until | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
all of them feel comfortable with each other and that takes us back | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
to Greece. We need transparency. People do not know what the balance | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
sheets look like. Most of the money is sitting in the ECB being stored. | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
We almost have a mini credit crunch follow their game. That is the real | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
danger. That is the real danger. Fraser, you were in a luxurious | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
position in that you did not borrow money from the banks when you set | :19:53. | :20:03. | |
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up the business. I am curious as to how you managed to do that. Had he | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
simply run a tight organisation or have used alternative sources of | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
funding? I guess my its story shows it is possible to start a business | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
without having to borrow money. I was able to grow the business | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
organically by reinvesting the profits are made. I was also able | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
to convince suppliers and the factory that makes our jam to | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
believe in my idea and that I did not need to build a factory. They | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
put up working capital for jars and labels. Thankfully, I was able to | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
get my idea of the ground without having to convince a bank or | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
investor. If you had had to borrow from the Bank, if your suppliers | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
had not been so foresight full in their approach, with the business | :20:45. | :20:53. | |
be as big as it is today? I was pretty young. I was only 16 or 17 | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
so I would not have been able to borrow from a bank but I was | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
supported by the Prince's Trust. They lent me �5,000. When the banks | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
are paralysed, we need other sources of financing. We are seeing | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
credit unions, new rivals like Metro bank coming into the business. | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
Supply will always meet the demand. It is a bit same old, same old | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
because you have some magazines from the 17th century, are they? | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
Not quite! The 20th century. They are talking about, we are banks, we | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
are ready to lend. This is Nat West, 1983. We are looking for small | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
businesses looking for money. Can you imagine that happening today? | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
You know when you have done financial journalism all this time, | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
what goes around comes around. When you are looking for a new job, | :21:47. | :21:55. | |
it is vitally important to stand out from the crowd. | :21:55. | :22:03. | |
Hello, BBC business. You may love your job. But if you | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
are looking for a new challenge, there is plenty of help around. | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
Korea coach Corinne Mills has some tips for knocking your CV into | :22:12. | :22:20. | |
shape -- carrier coach. Most CDs get rejected because they are not a | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
good fit. If you are a candidate, think about what it is that you | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
want, what you have in terms of your skills and experience, what | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
your options are and then go for roles which Gary good fit. If they | :22:34. | :22:41. | |
are not, you're wasting your time. When you are writing a CV, how | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
relevant should you make it to the particular job? Relevance is | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
everything in terms of a CV. They do not want to know your whole life | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
history, they do not want to know about the kitchen sink or you | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
changed a plug in 1988. That is not important. They will want to know | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
about a technical skills, capabilities and experience that | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
are relevant for the job you are hiring four. Tell them about that, | :23:09. | :23:19. | |
:23:19. | :23:22. | ||
ignore the other stuff! How to make your CV stand out? UPS -- employers | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
want the staff. They want someone who will be an asset, not a | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
jobsworth. As much as you can, talk about your achievements, how you | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
improved efficiency, increased profit or solved a problem. You | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
need to really show you can make a contribution to that organisation. | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
Not just the do the minimum that is required. To people tend to | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
undersell themselves, do you think? I think people are massively modest. | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
This is the time to blaring out with a trumpet your achievements | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
and what a great candidate you are. If you don't have confidence in | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
yourself and your ability to do the job, why should they? How fancy | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
should you make your CV? You start off with your name at the top. Not | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
curriculum vitae, don't put that at the top. Contact details, so it is | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
easy for people to get hold of you. The next thing that is really | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
important is your profile. What you want is two or three sentences | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
which proved why you are a great person to hire for this job. Your | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
money advert, that is what we are looking at. The next thing that we | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
need to do is proved. Let's give the more the evidence why you are a | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
good person to hire. That could be your career history so you could | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
put that down next. That would be ideal if the job you had just been | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
doing is similar to the one you are applying for. Otherwise, you can | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
use this heading which is relevant experience. If he is a heading like | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
fat, you can draw from all the different things throughout your | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
career that are relevant to the job you are applying for. It gives you | :25:15. | :25:23. | |
more flexibility. Spell-check will not always do it. Sometimes you | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
have words which are perfectly fine. You need to print it off so it is | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
easier to printed off and look for errors. Get somebody else to check | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
it for you because the areas you have missed, somebody else will | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
spot in an instant. Double-check, triple check, those are the | :25:42. | :25:47. |