Are you a TK Maxx or a Prada?

Jane Ferré
4 min readMar 12, 2024
Photo by Hugo Delauney on Unsplash

You have 6.72 seconds to make an impression when attaching your CV to a job application.

If you haven’t hooked in your reader after 7 seconds, your CV is going straight on the “no” pile.

Let me illustrate this through one of my least favourite activities — shopping.

Imagine walking into TK Maxx (or TJ Maxx if you are in the USA 🇺🇸).

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Jane Ferré

Helping frustrated, fire-fighting, ball-juggling HR Directors to revolutionise their talent management agenda quickly and easily through intensive 1:1 mentoring