You may have found the job by now I suppose

Anyway I would like to share my experience.

CV for European job application is completely different from Malaysian job application. Most European employers expect to see highlights of past experience/ achievements in previous job/ education such as project or assignments instead of results which are generally not very important as long as your degree is above 2.2, so listing down all subjects with score is not necessary. Try to outline as many work/ academic achievement as possible in the 1st page while keeping the 2nd page filled with your skills and additional information such as ability to speak multiple language, ready to relocate.. etc

One big different is you dont put down your photo at the top right corner, not necessary to state your nationality, sex or age (at least that's what I realised)

Myself was struggling to get Malaysian employers impressed with my CV (assuming mine was completely different from what most Msian employers expect, no photo, no results stated clearly etc.. ) but the interesting part is I received good responds while job hunting in the UK and was invited to interviews very quickly right after having my CV posted to some job websites and very lucky man I have been offered a few jobs from different companies in the UK and Shanghai even before I finish my degree. It took me a while to decide and finally made a decision few weeks ago

I am still no good in preparing CV for Msian job application I suppose (no respond at all from malaysia job application after over 20 attempts what a shame )

Anyway I am more than happy to give any help I could to help out whoever is currently looking for job in the UK. Cheers

This post has been edited by SunofaBeach: May 21 2012, 06:22 AM

If you could get anyone from your current job to be your referees would be good

Generally (as far as I understand), the reason a future potential employer asks for referee is to get to know more about you (it can be personality, working performance etc..) So if you can get someone who knows you well, would be good. I am not sure how bad it would be if your current job senior knows you are planning to leave, but as for my personal opinion, it wont be as bad because everyone has the right to choose who to work for, and absolutely free to choose the desired career path to proceed. I presume most educated people should be well aware of that and will be able to accept it with open minded (unless I am wrong about Malaysian's culture).

I suppose it would be better to let your current employer knows that you might be leaving for new job rather than not , and suddenly throw in a resignation letter. But that's just my own view, I can be wrong because I have not worked in Malaysia before. Hopefully other experienced member could give us some advice here.

Best of luck