u/Obvious-Broccoli-782

Hi all!

I’ve loved cocker spaniels from a young age. 😍 I have two beautiful but slightly insane dogs myself (not cockers - a Brittany x and a Harrier) so not looking to add to our family. But! My mum will be looking to bring a new doggie into her life in the next 12 months and we’ve been talking about breeds.

I think a cocker spaniel (or mix) would be a fabulous dog for her. She’s retired but very active. She’d also be very flexible with having a dog that was like Velcro or a bit more reserved. (I think her preference would be a Velcro friend 🤣).

Obviously I can get an overview of the typical breed online but I’m wanting to hear from people with a cocker in their lives. What’s their temperament like? Their personality? What do they love? What are they scared of/makes them worry? Do they need to be in a multi dog household?

Any and all insight is much appreciated (and pics of your beloveds always welcome!)

Thanks in advance ❤️

Edit to add: Mum last had two Jack Russels - one lived to 19 and the other 18 - both the most spoiled dogs in the world. Before that we had an Australian terrier mix growing up who lived until 17 from memory(?), again spoiled but in a way that supported all of them to live a healthy and happy life.

To contextualise this comment please know I questioned if it happened myself! For my own sense of sanity at least my husband saw most of it.

As a menopausal woman I’ve taken to sleeping in our lounge room under the aircon. We leave the back door open for our two hunting adopted dogs (Harrier and pointer x Brittany) so they both have access to the garden.

I woke up a couple of weeks ago and thought one of the dogs was tapping me on the tummy (regular behaviour). Woke up to see a beautiful magpie on my tummy starting at me! Unfortunately due to shock I screamed… in it’s face but it didn’t move. The dogs came running out of the bedroom and it sat above a high painting in the room.

Then it moved to the TV out of reach of the dogs. My husband approached it with a sheet and randomly it knew to jump onto the sheet and be escorted out.

It sat on the fence out of reach of our dogs for a while then flew off.

What does this mean?

Hi all,

I’d love to hear advice from anyone in recruitment or in a similar position to me about how to structure my CV so it’s short and snappy but still includes all relevant information:

I’ve been in the professional workplace (if you include early roles in administration) for almost 25 years now. Additionally I’ve been one to jump at new experiences and have probably changed organisations every 3-4 years. And in almost all of my places of work I’ve secured a promotion at least once in those 3-4 years. In one example I had four different roles in <3 years because of one promotion, one very long acting role and one restructure. And these weren’t just changes in title; the role focus, scope and level changed. In at least three other organisations I was promoted at least once. I also have a long and relevant (to most potential roles) volunteer career (eg - coordinator roles lasting longer than a year).

I like to focus on measurable outcomes for each role (eg - increased X by Y, improved Z by xyz%) in addition to a high level summary of responsibilities. However with this number of roles to cover (and explaining promotions or restructures) that makes for a longer CV at a time when hiring managers and recruiters are being flooded with applications. My understanding is keeping it to two to three pages is best practice now.

I’ve seen examples where applicants outline areas of expertise (eg: stakeholder management, data analysis and reporting, team management etc) and talk about skills and experience in each area in the first 1-2 pages then have an accompanying page that simply lists their job titles, and the organisation name and time of employment. Is that a more common approach at this career stage?

Thank you in advance for any insight 😊

ETA: what I’ve been doing until now is go into detail for roles held in the past 10 years and then just job title/organisation/time employed/short role summary for anything before that.