How to sell yourself!
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How to sell yourself
Stand out from the crowd!
Every day, more Sellers register on people4business. So every day, there are more people with skills like yours for Buyers to search through.
You need to make sure that your details get a Buyer’s attention immediately.
Keep up to date
It’s vital that you update your skills as you learn new competencies and, in particular, that you update your availability as you get new contracts or finish old ones.
We want to make sure that our Buyers don’t waste their time contacting Sellers whose details are inaccurate. So, we’re giving priority to you, if you’re keeping up to date. In Buyer search results, we’ll list our subscribers, first, in order of most recent access to the site; then, we’ll list non-subscribed Sellers, in order of most recent access to the site.
Your brief description
The ‘brief description’ at the top of your CV contains the most important words you write on people4business. When Buyers search through skills categories and see lists of Sellers, it is this brief description which they see first of all.
Make it work for you
Our recommendations for your brief description are:
Your CV
If a Buyer is interested in you, but can’t find out anything about you, other than your brief description and a list of skills, that Buyer is very unlikely to shortlist you. You don’t need to go into huge amounts of detail, but you need to include enough information to show a Buyer that you do have the skills they are looking for.
If you don’t have time to copy your CV into the template, then please e-mail it to us and we will do it for you:
You can then sign in to your homepage, at any time, to double check your entry.
Future Perfect CV services
Future Perfect, a people4business Partner company, is offering a special service to all people4business Sellers.
Future Perfect is here to ensure that your CV or ‘Brief Description’, on which your image and professional credibility rely, is beyond reproach from the most discerning readers. Let us perform an advanced-level check on your CV and return it to you, flawless, to use many times in its polished format.
For people4business Sellers, Future Perfect is prepared to offer this service at the discounted rate of £9 per 100 words (or part thereof). Simply tell Future Perfect that you have come from people4business to receive this special low rate.
Subscription
Subscribing to people4business is an excellent way to stand out from the crowd.
As a subscriber, you get priority placement in Buyers’ searches – so are far more likely to gain contracts. As well as this, you benefit from twice as much space in your brief description.
To find out more about the benefits of subscribing, take a look at our subscribers’ page.
last updated 02.04.08
