Preparing for a job in Social Care

Is it time to start job hunting? Click on the useful links below to help you get prepared.

• How to write a good CV
• Interview techniques

Information about Employers

Information about eCarers registered employers:

• List of Registered Employers

• The CV provides the main marketing material in your job-hunting campaign.
• The CV’s aim is to gain you an interview, not the job itself.
• Tailor the contents as closely as possible to the requirements of the target job.
• Most people are best served by drafting a historical CV describing employment history in reverse chronological order.
• Don’t write a CV longer than three pages. Most people just need two.
• Avoid anything that can make the recruiter suspicious, such as unexplained gaps in your career history.
• Avoid potentially controversial content such as political affiliations
• Allow time to review and improve your draft CV before sending it off; ask a friend to look at it, as well as your covering letter.
• If you are asked to complete an application form, make sure you do so fully.
• Practice answering the questions on a photocopy of the original form.
• Answer all of the questions.
• Write a covering letter that makes you stand out by highlighting three or four key attributes that make you the best person for the job.
• Sending CV’s by email is increasingly common. If you do so, write a covering email that follows the same approach as a covering letter.