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leef

Hello everyone,
I've been in the same company for over 10 years and I'm probably a bit rusty on job hunting. I'm based in the UK, any advice would be much appreciated - Thanks Lee javascript:emoticon(' Smile

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Lee Fountain
Address: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Telephone: Home: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mobile: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
E-mail: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Date of Birth: 19th February 1971 Marital Status: Separated

Personal Characteristics:
• An effective communicator with first class interpersonal skills
• Willing to use initiative and resourceful in tackling work
• Committed and self motivated, accustomed to seeing all jobs through to a satisfactory conclusion
• Conscientious and hard working; like to be kept busy
• Accustomed to working to detailed instructions calling for a high degree of accuracy and the ability to cope with pressure

Academic Qualifications:

1986 – 1990 5 GCSE’s – Grades A-C
2 AS Levels – Grades A-C
City and Guilds Web Design
BTEC Business Diploma.
Further Education/Training:
• Effective Management
• Team Building
• Counselling and mentoring
• SAP
• ITIL
• Time Management
• Interleaf 6 Training Course
• BT Onebill Analyst,
• MCI Smartbill
• Microsoft Advanced Excel
• Microsoft Access, Word

Employment History
Jan 06 – Present EDS Ltd. Position: Financial Analyst
Financial analyst responsible for the Cost Management and reporting run rates of four cost centres including P&L reporting, assets and asset depreciation, outlooks and forecasting. While continuing to be Sarbanes-Oxley compliant.

Nov 01 – Dec 05 EDS Ltd. Position: Billing Consultant
Billing Consultant responsible for the Cost Analysis and reporting of telephony within EDS EMEA, using BT, C&W and Verizon, so that company requirements for systems functionality and service level agreements are met and exceeded. Additional responsibilities include ordering and ceasing of lines, liaising with internal customers and the management of two cost centres including P&L reporting, assets and asset depreciation, outlooks and forecasting while continuing to be Sarbanes-Oxley Compliant.

Aug 97 – Nov 01 EDS Ltd. Leagrave Position: Team Leader
EDS - Team Leader in charge of graphics/illustration department within GM parts catalogue account, responsible for the day to day running of the department. Including project planning and tracking. Working closely with the Illustrators and Compilers to ensure all deliverable deadlines and success factors are met. Meetings with the customer to review progress and discuss future projects

July 95 - Aug 97 Watford Electronics Ltd Position: Manager
Manufacture returns manager responsible for liaising with customers and manufacturers regarding the return of faulty products. Day to day responsibility for the management of the department including the activities of three staff

Dec 94 – July 95 British Telecom Plc Position: Clerical Assistant
Undertook an extended temporary contract with British Telecom, working within the “One-Bill” Division, this involved the input of new accounts onto existing one-bills and ensuring each one-bill is kept up to date and liaising with major customers. Also involved in repairing computers and peripherals within the department.

Sept 92 - Dec 94 Amsys Plc. Position: Workshop Team leader
Joined as a technician and progressed through to Team leader of the workshop, Worked on various hardware systems including Apple, AST, Compaq, organized the workload for 11 engineers and dealt with the issue and return of parts; maintained detailed records of such transactions. Created a current stock system using Microsoft Access and carried out stock checks maintained a log of faults.
Involved in project planning Network systems and installation

Feb 92 – Sept 92 Returned to College for this period and studied for typing and Japanese language qualifications

Mar 89 to Dec 91 Tesco Supermarket Ltd. Position: Trainee Manager
Underwent training in all aspects of store management from ordering stock and carrying out stock checks through to recruiting and administering employees

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Pauloz · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:26 am Post subject:

leef

This CV is a mix and match collection. The earlier jobs don't interconnect well with the later, there's not a lot of common ground.

The web and systems abilities are useful, but only if they show relevance to other jobs.

We've found that CVs work best when targeted. You'll need to work on this raw material in terms of your application for any job.

You've got a good broad range of skills, but you need to show each employer the specific relevance of your experience to them.

Suggest:

Leave out anything pre 97. Not instantly relevant, takes up space.

Include in your skills:

Customer service/advisory
Asset management/costing
Telecommunications industry experience, (include whatever skill sets apply)
Project management (where you can also introduce your extra skills)
Client consultation

These are all transferable across the job ranges. Telco skills apply to any business, you'd be useful to their accounts and IT people, whatever you were doing in your own job.

You see where this is going. The idea is to show higher value skills, across your transferable range of skills.

You're actually in a pretty good position to prove a very broad bandwidth of skills which work in just about any employment environment.

leef · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 5:51 pm Post subject:

Hello Pauloz

Thanks for your response, you have given me some very helpful advice which I will most definitely use.

Many Thanks
Lee

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