sh*t somebody help me please......(NVQ portfolio stuff)

[HRHQueenOfQuotes]

I've got another thread somewhere disappearing off the active convo's - but I'm really floundering here.

Got my first one-to-one with my NVQ Assessor tomorrow, have to provide my CV (don't have one!) and produce a 'self profile' (basically a page of blurb about me - nothing 'selling' myself - just, well just about "me" really - who I am, how old, kids, what I did before I worked where I am now, how I got into my current work etc etc etc).

I haven't got a clue what to write - how to write it - anything - and my meeting is at 10am in the morning so won't have time to do anything before I go.

I'm completely lost and don't even know how to start

ok I've just about finished the profile - how do I end it????

Just stop typing!

thanks Colditz - really helpful

Does 350 words sound like enough????

Really! i mean it! It's not an A level essay, and isn't expected to be anything like one. Stop worrying about it. Go to bed.

I have no ideas what 350 words looks like on paper so I don't know. Probably loads.

Can't go to bed yet - have to do a CV!!

List the places you have worked, dates, things enjoyed and learnt there...
Any courses etc

well - I'm using one of the CV Templates on Word, not brilliant but it'll do !

oh bollox - finished my CV and it's only 1 side of A4 - it's not really enough is it??? And lots of that is made up of the 'layout' rather than writing [frown]

my dh has a CV looks like this

Personal profile

I currently Manage a Community Development Project and have done so for the past 4 years. My role affects all aspects of Project Management from conception to development and delivery through to managing budgets, staff and volunteers. I work closely with staff from many community, voluntary and statuatory organisations developing links and forging partnerships. I am currently working with 4 Housing Associations helping them to involve residents in the service improvement agenda.

Whilst being a member of both the xxxxManagement Committee and xxxSingle Regeneration Budget Management Committee i had extensive experience of assessing policies and proceedures and budget monitoring.

Throughout my work experience i have enjoyed a diversity of roles ranging from project delivery to strategic planning. As such i feel that i am well suited to adapting to new challenges and environments and thriving within them

career history

from xxxx to xxxx
company name
job tile
duties

EDucation & training

from xxto xx.............place....qualification

other training
( stuff you have done at work? health and saety, customer care?)

interest and activities

References available on request

ONE SIDE OF A4 IS GREAT - THATS ALL AN EMPLOYER WILL WANT TO SEE - THEY CANT BE ARSED WITH AN EFFIN BOOK

How did it go?

it was ok actually - he hardly looked at either of them - just signed the relevent form to say I'd got them (another part of the funding requirement) sigh*.

Still - I've got my first Unit Workbook to be getting on with - and I'll be seeing him again on the 4th September.

well I hate to say I told you so ..... but I'm going to anyway[grin

sticks tongue out at Colditz**