Welcome!

  • Is your CV in the boring, prescribed format the Job Centre thinks will get you a job?
  • Have you sent out what feels like a million of them with no result?
  • Are you only getting call-backs for work you really don’t want to do, or heaven-forbid, requested to take a non-paid work experience placement?
  • Are you tired of being unemployed and feeling like a dole scrounger??

Then, you’ve come to the right place!

Standout-CVs was created to help you get back to work – FAST!

Face it – the Job Centre is a government agency. They are in the business of processing you through the system in the most efficient way for them. Everyone gets the same treatment and counseling. You are processed through the cookie-cutter machine the same as all your unemployed mates, with the same boring black and white, unformatted CV.

Now, think of it from the employer’s point of view. They advertise a vacancy and, in this economy, receive probably at least 300 CVs for the position. THEY ALL LOOK THE SAME. White paper. Black Times New Roman text. No color. No artistic flair. Nothing STANDS OUT! You may have amazing experience, but if the hiring manager is too glazed over because your CV didn’t jump out at him or her, you go in the bin with everyone else.  You are at an even greater disadvantage if you don’t have much experience or you are just starting out.

This service was started to circumvent The System. We will take your unattractive, seriously boring Job Centre CV and re-do it into something eye-catching that a hiring manager will have a much greater likelihood to SEE and want to READ. The biggest hurdle is getting your information viewed. If you get “seen,” the chance of a callback for an interview skyrockets!

This requires a bit of confidence on your part. You’ll be bucking the system a bit. Your local Job Centre may get all up in arms and say you can’t do this because it’s not their way. But this is your life – you can do anything you want. Are you going to choose to STAND OUT? To take a chance? Or stay on the dole for who knows how long, continuing to beat your head against the wall of “their way”? I know which choice I would make…