Brilliant Example of Using Your Initiative!

brilliant example using initiative skills

This graduate used his initiative and creative thinking to land himself a coveted work experience opportunity at GQ magazine – it goes to show that with a little bit of thinking outside the box you can get big results. Try coming up with some ideas of how you could creatively display your CV. Even if you wouldn’t use it for a job interview the exercise will help you get into the mindset of using your initiative.

This graduate made his CV look like GQ magazine – and it worked

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