Hi,
sorry that I'm sending many e-mails now.
I've been thinking a bit more about the CV.
I have another IT-skill, called Basic, from life.
(Wasn't it like, that skills could be from education, work or life?
I don't think we focus on skills that much on CV's in Norway, at least not in the 80's, when I learned about CV's, at Upper Secondary School.
I think it's more about qualifications, in Norway, if I'm not mistaking.
So some of the stuff on the course yesterday, was quite new to me).
Also, I was on a Basic Food Hygiende-course, with Jet, last year.
(I was really wanted to go to an IT-course, (in SQL and PHP, at Liverpool Community College), but there was a misunderstanding with Jet).
Also I had to extra-jobs, in Norway, in the 90's, that I weren't on the CV now, I've noticed.
I was doing china-food delivery, for a company in Bærum, in Norway, called Chinatown-expressen.
That looks maybe a bit silly, because we don't have china-town in Oslo, it was just the name.
Also I've been working with telemarketing, as an extra-job, to save money for my driving-licence, for a company called Norsk Idrettshjelp.
Because the job I had in retail, was really a survival job.
Because, after the army, I only got around £500 from the army, after my conscription-service, and after the conscription-service, in Norway, one are only alowed to be un-employed, 3 or 6 months.
So the conscription-service, made me lose a bit control, and I had to get a survival-job, (like we learned about yesterday, that those jobs are called), to get to pay the bills.
Also, my sister's flatmates, moved back home to the country-side, from Oslo, and she then didn't have anyplace to live, so I had to let her live at my place.
And then, I had to have a survival-job, since my sister also was un-employed.
So Store-manager, wasn't like my 'dream-job', (which we learned about yesterday, to do with the job-ladder).
Really I had a university-level education in IT, before I had to go to the army.
But that was from a private univeristy college, so it was quite expensive, so I had to work a lot, besides the studies, so I lacked a few credits, for my degree.
And It was a recession in Norway, in the early 90's, so I had to just take a survival-job.
I didn't think I should study more then, and get more debt.
I was propably affected by the depression and that I almost had responsibility for my sister.
But still I climbed the ladder, in the retail-company, and became Team Leader, Assistant Manager, and then Store Manger.
But this wasn't my dream-job.
But I didn't have that many contacts in IT, and I didn't have a degree, so I just went on in the retail-company, Rimi, who didn't pay that well, so it was really just a survival-job, even if I got to be Shop Manager, because then I had to work more and I was more or less expected to have a care and a lot of fancy clothes etc, by my collegues, etc.
I haven't been sure how to assess my skills, but the course yesterday, made me understand more about this.
So this course was very useful.
I wonder if I should put the CV-writing course on my CV?
What's the 'proper' name for the course again, because I'm not sure if I got a letter about the course, from the Jobcentre, (even if I possibly did).
I also wondering, after assessing my skills.
I have like cross-competence, I think it's called, in business and IT.
Maybe I should aim for a higher managment job/direction-job.
Hope it's alright that I update about the CV and the course, etc.
Sorry if I send many e-mails.
Say thanks to Mr. Vaughan, from Reed, Victoria House, who helped me get the Arvato-job, in 2005, when he sent me to Randstad.
Is that usual by the way?
Aren't Randstad your competitors?
Thanks again for the help with explaining about the CV-writing and applications, ect.
Best regards,
Erik Ribsskog
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From:
Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com>Date: Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:21 PM
Subject: CV
To: rickie.woods@reed.co.uk
Hi,
thank you for the help in the course in CV-writing, today.
I send my CV, like agreed.
Some sections are missing on the CV, but I wrote a draft, at the course today:
Key Skills:
Management-skills.
Budget-skills.
Communication-skills.
Project-skills.
Training-skills.
Organisation-skills.
Language-skills: (Norwegian native, Swedish fluent, Danish good).
Office-skills.
Economy-skills.
Marketing-skills.
Prioritation-skills.
Customer Service-skills.
Shop runnings-skills.
IT-skills: (Java, Pascal, Pearl, Machine-code, wed-design, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Linux, System/Network-administration, System-development, Computer-security, E-Commerce, Relation Databases, unix, data-modelling, operating-systems, expert-systems, discrete mathematics, statistics, Computer Arcitecure, algorithms and data-structures), (all from University-level).
Adaptive.
Academical.
Objective:
IT or Retail Manager.
Thanks again for the help!
Best regards,
Erik Ribsskog
