A Little Well-Meant Advice on submitting your CV to Woodridge Associates ...
Registration is free to job seekers and applications for specific vacancies are always welcome.To help us perform efficiently and effectively, please take note of the following:
- If you are applying for a specific vacancy, please read the vacancy notification carefully.
Only apply if you fit the outline given and quote the relevant reference number in the subject line if applying by e-mail.
- Woodridge Associates will accept speculative applications. In which case, please write a prospective job title in the "Subject" line
of your e-mail or in your covering letter if applying by post or fax.
- If applying by e-mail please send attached Word files or similar ONLY. No HTML or plain text CVs.
- Use simple fonts, preferably Times New Roman, Arial or similar and set page size to A4.
What we need from you:
- A succinct up-to-date CV which is clear and concise. This may be sent by post, fax or e-mail.
- Be aware that we send your CV on to our clients and that good presentation is therefore essential.
With this in mind, fax is the least best option for submitting your CV.
- We specialise in engineers and managers for mining, minerals, telecomms, IT, oil, gas, petrochemicals, construction, iron & steel and similar process industries. We do occasionally recruit for other staff or trades but only where specified in our schedule of current vacancies. If your specialism is outside these fields then we will probably be unable to help you
General CV advice
Woodridge Associates have no preferred format for résumés or CVs. We only ask that they should be concise and straightforward, contain all contact details and give relevant information about your career to date.
However, we will send your CV to our clients in the form in which we received it - we don't retype it or enhance its presentation in any way. The only thing we do is to remove your address and contact details before we submit it to our clients.
Please bear this in mind when submitting your CV or résumé.
Essential CV contents
CVs must contain:
- full contact details (address, telephone/fax/mobile numbers, e-mail address etc where applicable).
- career history - with dates, employers, job title - showing your major achievements in each post. These should appear in reverse chronological order (most recent job first).
- academic, professional and other qualifications with date of award.
E-mail information
We do not accept plain text unformatted CVs or HTML documents.
Be aware that we will attempt to confirm receipt of your e-mail to the address from which it was sent. If this could pose problems of security or confidentiality please make this clear in your plain text covering message. Our confirmation message is not an indication that you are a shortlisted candidate.
Targeted applications
We prefer to receive applications against a specific vacancy or vacancies. When sending an e-mail CV for a specific vacancy please quote its reference number in the message header.
Speculative e-mail applications
We understand the reasons for speculative applications. If your CV is speculative, please put a prospective job title in the "Subject" box of your e-mail rather than your name.
Please check that your covering letter is not addressed to another company.
If your CV is speculative, please put a prospective job title in the message header rather than your name.