CV assistance

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SteS

Original Poster:

14 posts

137 months

Wednesday 12th October 2016
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Hi,

A little background first - I have bad social anxiety (potentially another mental illness but basically suffer from social anxiety) which has prevented me from working. (I still haven't even had one job at 23).

Every time I have someone who's suppose to help me, they do very little and then disappear and I'm stuck with no progression. This time, they did a CV for me but left out any mention of my anxiety (which would affect me in a lot of social situations) which I feel like a potential employee should definitely know. I told them this and said they would update it as requested, it has now been a month and I've heard nothing.

I would really appreciate it if someone could help me with the right way to put that on my CV. (Can send if needed)

Thanks in advance.

~ Ste

SteS

Original Poster:

14 posts

137 months

Thursday 13th October 2016
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It is a negative which is why I feel like it should be added. I don't want to waste anyone's time.

I try and go to the shops by myself, even managed to call the garage to get my car sorted so I'm slowly trying to improve my anxiety with what little I can actually try and do. "Do a programming course", if I could, I probably would but again, my anxiety has prevented me from furthering my education.

I personally think the next step is a part time job mixing with few people to try and manage my anxiety and improve it from there but I feel like an employee should know that certain social situations are going to be difficult for me.

My thought process was if they know about it, they can clearly see I'm trying to improve myself and my situation whereas if I don't add it, attend an interview and I'm being socially awkward, it just looks bad on me and I'd never get the job anyway.