Archive of all My Alternative CV articles – Page 17
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My Alternative CVEd Boyes, Hello Fresh, on mystery shopping and Marley & Me
At school I started a company called Tops Off, which manufactured and sold credit card-sized bottle openers…
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My Alternative CVMy Alternative CV: Karen Wilson, All About Food
My first job was sales assistant at Bejam – I had a great uniform…
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My Alternative CVSallie Attwell, Oakland International
My first job was working for my mum and dad in our family Harry Tuffins, stacking shelves and serving customers….
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Catherine Furze, Corn Again Popcorn on Bobby Robson and coffee
I arrived, unannounced, at 6pm, to find that the interviewers had waited for me. Amazingly, I got the job…
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My Alternative CVRichard Benjamin, Manchester Drinks, on Indiana Jones
I’ve got the best job in the world, according to my mates! I make pre-mixed drinks and cocktails…
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My Alternative CVIsland Cuisine's Ronnie Albert on seals and the Seychelles
I’ve always had a really strong work ethic. When I was 12, I sold craft items on the beaches in the Seychelles…
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My Alternative CVMy alternative cv: Bath Ales' Robin Couling
I accidentally dropped two chilli-laden jacket potatoes into a customer’s bag…
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Jon Evans of Purity Soft Drinks on Gladiator and polar bears
What was your first-ever job? Like most kids, it was a paper round…
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My Alternative CVMy alternative CV: Nigel Tordoff of Molson Coors
What was your first-ever job? My first real job was as a church organist. I used to charge £150 for a wedding…
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My Alternative CVTim Brady, RH Amar: My Alternative CV
What was your first-ever job? I was a labourer on a dairy farm….
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My Alternative CVMy alternative CV: Will Hawking, Marshfield Farm Ice Cream
What was your first-ever job? Milking the cows on my father’s farm, aged 13…
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My Alternative CVMy alternative CV: Tracey Bovingdon, MD, Tea Monkey
I worked in the Audi training department running sales and technical courses for the UK dealer network…
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My alternative CV: Penny Dryden, Valassis
I worked in a sweet shop when I was 16 and was paid 20p an hour. It was slave labour!…
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My Alternative CVMy alternative CV: Richard Cattell, Red Tractor Assurance
My first job was shovelling coal dust at Scunthorpe Steel Works as a summer job…
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My Alternative CVMy alternative CV: Rod Garnham of Corkers Crisps
At 17 years old I got a job to help pay for fuel for my car so I could carry out my apprenticeship at Marshall Aerospace…
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My Alternative CVMy Alternative CV: James MacTaggart, Isle of Arran Distillers
Master Distiller at Isle of Arran Distillers, on meeting whisky enthusiasts and Indiana Jones…
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My Alternative CVAlternative CV: Helen Boyle of The Dip Society
What was your first-ever job? Working for my dad during the summer holidays….
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My Alternative CVAlternative CV: Steve Carter of Frobishers Juices
What was your first-ever job? I read electricity meters for a summer job in the 1980s….
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My Alternative CVMy Alternative CV: Miranda Ballard, co-founder, Muddy Boots
Miranda Ballard, co-founder of Muddy Boots, on buying the Mr Blobby single. Yes, the Mr Blobby single….
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My Alternative CVAlternative CV for Dan Brown of It's Only Natural
What was your first ever job? I worked in a bagel bar at 16 - I learned how to make egg mayonnaise and ate a lot of salt beef…