1999 has been a �hard� year for Italy, that has met a lot of difficulties in re-launching the employment.

The European Union has forced the Italian companies to a re-organisation, in order to face, with good possibility of success, the global competition. 

Unfortunately this phase has penalised the labour market and the unemployment remains substantially stable.

It is important to report that the Italian industrial system, making the right exceptions, was structured mainly in a patronal way. The biggest companies gave job each other and the home market was substantially protected by norms that often allowed monopolistic regimes.

With the process of European unification, the public administration was forced to start a privatisation of many enterprises at public participation and this would not have been successful if the budgets had not been put in order.

First of all, many public enterprises had to become limited companies, then it got necessary to slim the staffs through pre-retirements, stimulated dismissals and blocking of engagements. In the meantime the alert eye of Europe was looking to us.

Many other enterprises, even if they were not public, worked in a market substantially closed at the foreign competitors (just think about the Japanese automotive industries, which had been kept for years at the window).

With reference to the healthiest part of the Italian enterprises, the middle and the small enterprises, which have always been considered the �true� wealth of our industry, we must admit that to face the European competition should not have been easy. Often, these enterprises have not been managed by the right management and the re-organisation has lied only in a slimming of the staff, just in order to be ready to face the worse times.
An other " stop " to assumptions has come from the frenzied needing of company fusion. In the last three years, more than ever, in fact, in Italy, so many enterprises decided to join the own forces in order to face easily the global competition.

Then, a Governmental politic, which was to much engaged in making square the budgets to be admitted in Europe, has not been able to organise a support to the companies and a re-launching of the occupation.

Fortunately, in a so negative setting, a new revolution happened in  the most industrialised countries of the world, and therefore also in Italy; the new computer science technologies and the telecommunications.

Thanks to this enormous industrial sector it has been possible to keep the occupation stable.
The fixed telephony, the mobile telephony, Internet, Java, E-business, the millenium bug had offered, and will continue to offer for years, extraordinary job opportunities.

Practically, it is necessary to rewrite the software of all these companies. Never, like at this moment, the pages of newspapers have been therefore full of announcements of enterprises searching for young people (even not graduated) with good computer science knowledge.

The right way of writing a CV

First of all it would be advisable to think at the person who will receive it.

The graphic and the contents of our CV should be adapted to the kind of company is going to receive it.

Graphically speaking , for example, we will certainly use a different style while applying for a creative job than while sending a curriculum for an administrative position. 

Speaking about the contents, the main differences may concern the specific information we want to enclose or leave out of the CV, according to the advertisement: if, for example, we answer an insertion where the company asks expressly for experience in a specific branch, it will be better to point out our ability on that sector and just mention the other professional knowledge.

Looking at the way a curriculum is composed in the other States, I noticed that here in Italy, people follow some quite different rules that should be observed:

• First of all, the CV should be typed on a computer and cover no more than two pages.

• In order to catch the attention of the selector, it would be valuable to  use just a bit of graphic set-up.

• The registry data are usually put on the top-left side of the page, together with the telephone number and the times you are available at that number.

The successive paragraphs are:

•  �School development�

• �Specialisation courses (if any)�

• �Working experience�

• �Company branches of interest ( or �favourite working seat� )

• �Foreign languages knowledge�

• �Computer knowledge�

• �Hobbies and Sports�

We have pleasure in informing You that Mercurius has realised a  software, which can be FREELY downloaded in Internet  http://www.mercurius.it and which helps You in writing Your Curriculum quickly and easily.

There is an Italian equivalent of Success and Career called � Azienda Informa � www.mercurius.it
It is available at a cost of 25 CHF (plus extra for postage and packing) at Success and Career.
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