Pheasant

I've been on a bit of mission today to tart up my CV and the likes since I've seen a job I think would be very cool indeed.

There is a trainee position available at a local estate around here for a Gamekeeper - what that basically means is looking after the land, breeding shooting birds and looking after the hunting dogs. It's a very niche market to get into and I don't think trainee positions often come up for grabs so I decided to give it a go. I had a lovely chat with the head Gamekeeper who was brutally honest about the amount of work and the hours it involves, and also that the pay for a trainee is quite awful, but even after all that the job he described sounded really interesting, and not only that I'd be working towards a NVQ qualification in Gamekeeping.

So after hearing the good and bad about the job I thought I'd still apply and see if I get anywhere. The problem I have now is formulating a CV - all I've ever done is IT jobs and so applying for something like this job I have to basically scrap my existing CV and start all over again.

In the end I decided my best option would be to include my IT CV, I mean who knows, maybe building websites is remotely related to forestry work!? And then on top of that do a mini-cv which includes experience I have that is related to the job in question. I'm quite lucky on that front since I was raised on a small holding where we had to care and look after lots of animals, from cows to goats, ducks and geese but to name a few. I also had to do quite a bit of land maintenance too, repairing fences, making hay and all of that good stuff. So along with the 2 CV's I also did an explanatory covering letter as to why I was moving career focus and what I could offer to the job.

That's taken the best part of all day to do, just a bit of tarting up tomorrow and I'll be ready to post it to the employer.

Posted by Abi on the March 20, 2006 9:04 PM

sjon at March 24, 2006 6:41 AM