The aim of your CV should be to open doors and get you in front of a prospective employer for an interview. Your CV therefore needs to be a brief, factual account of your employment history and qualifications to date. It is your opportunity to demonstrate you can clearly communicate what you have to offer an organisation.

Unless you are caught by IR35, you’ll pay less tax than a permanent employee as you can claim for such things as travel expenses, phone etc.

In certain fields such as the IT industry, contracting is sometimes paid significantly more than permanent roles in the same field. In some cases this can be as much as two or three times over a similar time period.

Most employers now use social networking sites to screen candidates with almost half claming that what they had viewed on such sites had caused them to think twice about hiring a candidate.