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Aye, its bullet pointed already and uses tables to separate roles. Theres also the view that you should tailor it to the application but sometimes I feel like saying "that's what I've done so deal with it". Of course you should get guidance from the agent as to what their client wants but as I've said before agents are variable.

I was going to email Stevie and ask for his opinion but decided to widen the floor as it were. When I was job hunting last year I came across a lot of mentions of this unwritten rule about limiting a CV to two pages max. Now I know from when I've been involved in recruiting in the past that I have had a negative response to people with 10 pages of "here is what I did everyday for 3 years in each and every role I've had" but I'm now finding that 2 pages is pretty limiting. I had it down to a decent view last year but now having added my most recent role it's spread onto a thrd page. Additionally I spoke to an agent yesterday who told me his client had asked for some additional technical info which I sent this morning but now he's came back and said they can't submit separate documents so would I mind incoroprating it into my CV? - this would take it onto a fourth page. Should I just do this for this one occasion? Ideally I think a one or two page summary along side a much more detailed "appendix" would be the best way forward so someone could make the supposed snap decision and chuck it in the bin or decide to look further. I suppose you could argue that's what the first interview is for as well. Thoughts?

It's exciting news but the ultra cybic in me thinks it's happened a bit too easily and early after the opening to be accepted so willingly. Of course if the collider does work this well then it'll hopefully provide more discoveries in a relatively short period.

I'm in a bit of a mixed mood - I've been suffereing with a bit of man flu for a couple of weeks and then was struck down on Sunday night by a gout atack - the first one I've had for four years and only the second in about the last fifteen - it reached its peak last night and now is on the way to subsiding but that's meant the cold has decided to have another go. This has meant I've been working from home the last three days and so I've dipped a toe (probably the one that's okay and not the inflamed monstrosity on my other foot) back into the job market and have already had 3 or 4 conversations with my favourite people - recruitment agents. I've decided to include a possible return to contracting this time around which if it works out will at least mean the probablility of some Europa league trips.

A couple of lads I know who were always "up" for a bit of bother got invited to go to Man City in a transit by the Benders - it was a bit like a youth team player being invited to train with the first team or maybe even being drafted in as a sub for a big game. Fair to say from how they described it, it was a step up a bit too far involving kids being put through car windscreens etc I don't think they went with them again.

Of course I woiuld love to have memories of actually winning something but in the absence of that we have to cling to the "good days" being either defiance in the face of adversity, good pissups and dodgy trips with the threat/reality of bother. I suppose fuckers who have won things have those types of highlights as well but I like to think ours are better.

The only two games I've ever wanted to go to but couldn't get a ticket for was that one and the Boro game where we lost 4-1 and ended up in the play-offs. I remember listening to it on the radio and even with supposedlly correct info I convinced myself we were down before the winner went in. Generally I don't think fans who are say under 25 are that interested in "history" apart from ocasionally - I think that's more s sympton of a world where everything has to be "now" rather then them being wankers tbf.

Going back to Cameron's use of "entitlement" - the thing that gets me is the mindset where rewards are seen as inevitble and expected - I remember arguing with managers 3 years ago when the bank I worked for had lost €1.5bn in the crunch who reckoned they should still get their bonus as their business had made a profit - when I asked where the money should come from to pay said bonus they were almost stumped but still reckoned it was "morally" due. The concept of a big picture even as far as company level was completely lost on them.

Theres also the point that the traders are divided into "teams" - a team knows that if they make a profit (by fair means or foul) then they expect a bonus to reflect that - they have no concept of the division or the bank as a whole losing money. Of course the team that is the "victim" of the swing/roundabout of the manipulation expect a bonus even if they don't make a profit on the basis that the bank as a whole did. So even if the manipulation doesn't affect the bank as a whole's results by a significant amount, the individuals/teams involved make loads.

Lost control of my car about 15 years ago, ran off the road into some trees and ended up with a huge tree at each corner of the car as if a giant had picked it up and placed it there - got out unhurt and still don't understand how it got like that but I reckon any impact on any of the 4 trees and at best I'd be typing this with a straw a la Hawking.

I know it's a cliche but with certain bands like Oasis its not just a "Manc" thing - I saw them at Finsbury park in about 05 and it was full of Cockney Liam wannabees - that's not just a London/South thing either as I've been to other big gigs/festivals down here and the crowds have been canny.

I think its more sinster than that. I have no objection to anything (within reason) that brings people together in a social setting and I think genuine mates helping each other out in business terms is fine up to a point but when it goes all secretive and you get whole professions like the Police using it far too dodgily for promotions etc then it becomes wrong. Its similar to the semi-mythical old school tie - people doing deals based on a nod and a wink of questionable association rather than on ability/fair price.

It was just a general "would you be interested" conversation rather than handing out leaflets on the high street. Since my current workmates consist of Russians, Indians, Chinese, Poles, Irish and a lad originally from Ipswich I very much doubt it.

A lad I used to work with tried to sell me on it once - he described it as nowt more than blokes getting together for a drink and a meal - I replied I did that anyway - its called having mates.

3/4 of them are fine live. In a way things like this are more about the coming together in celebration rather than the details. I'll be seeing them at V - unless of course they fall out by then.

I hope the Italians don't try and be too Italian in the final and instead continue to play the same way - they remind me of the 2006 WC - just getting better game by game.

Every time I hear the phrase "pass completion rate" it makes me hate Allardyce that little bit extra.

Fucking hell - I did a bit of SF leching at dinnertime sitting on a bench outside work and it was scorchio.

I think the punishment for administration should be the same as liquidation - in either case its a way of avoiding paying debts. Too many have taken the ten points and virtually shrugged it off.

Two points on Asians I was at university in Bradford 30 years ago and young kids certainly played football in the back lanes just as we did - don't know whether its supressed as they get older by the families but I'm surprised there's been no progress on that front. Also a mate of mines a Blackburn fan who reckons they've bent over backwards trying to involve th community there with very little success. It's a shame as footballs a good bridge compared with others like alcohol with its obvious drawback.

2012, Germany vs Greece and that fucking Brummie cunt finds a way to mention Ronnie Radford. Wanker.

Funny how the person I remember using the "NUFC will cease to exist" most was Hall. At the time I recognised it as scare tactics given Boro had "folded" in 86 - I had no idea it was going to become an actual tactic used deliberately. I wonder if Hall regrets not trying it after the failed share issue now.

If Rangers were just a "normal" administration case I would like to see them have to start again - the same fate I think should apply to Pompey and the rest. I think its the blatant criminality on top of that which should add resolve to those involved to go as far as possible.

Well I was mainly responding to criticism of Shearer re Ben Arfa but I think up to a point you can give an opinion based on an initial view of someone which is reasonable. I don't think anyone has demonstrated the wide ranging knowledge you imply is needed but that doesn't mean all punditry is shit.

No but it depends how broad the subject is. If I was invited for example to be a reviewer of cult/sci-fi tv shows I could hold my own without having watched vast swathes of other genres. I think you can comment on English football games (especially having played at that level in most pundits case) without knowing who the top players in other leagues are.