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If you come in at midday, bypassing all the processes, and
say, ‘Hi, I’ve got a letter for James Caan,’ what do you think
would happen? Yes, somebody will come straight down and
bring it up to me, but the critical aspect is that the letter will be
given to me on its own. It is not part of a wodge of correspond-

ence. Again, what do you think I’m going to do? I’m going to
open it.
Lesson Number Two: if you really want your C V to be noticed,

hand-deliver it. It’s a question of ranking. If you want to be right
at the top of the pile, hand-deliver it. The second-best option is
to send it by post; the least e≠ective option is to email it. A job
ad will say, ‘Send all C Vs by email.’ You can do that: it costs you
nothing, no e≠ort, to email it in. But if it was me, I would hand-

deliver it every time.
Again, because most C Vs have been created following a
rather rigid template, anything you can do to lift its profile is

valuable. The C V you are sending in could be one of a hundred,
one of 500, one of over a thousand.
If you think of the person at the other end going through a
hundred C Vs, ask yourself why they would remember your C V.
If you want to put it on black paper with white writing, do it,

because you only have seconds to capture their imagination and
their attention. I would always prefer a C V to stand out and get
noticed, rather than get buried.

When that person opens your C V, unless there is something
about it that is screaming o≠ the page – a sentence, a word, a
look, a colour, a picture – the only button it’s going to push is the
‘Delete’ one.

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