Writing a CV/Resumé

[smithy]

Now go call your lecturer(s) and ask them nicely!  Get someone you know, anyone, aunt, uncle, whomever to write a personal reference for you

There is no need to put references on your CV.  References are usually (if ever) taken up after a successful interview and aren't used to determine whether to interview someone.  A company that's recruiting doesn't spend more than 30 seconds scanning a CV, and couldn't even dial your reference up in that time!  If they want references, they'll ask for them.

Many companies now refuse to ask or give references - the business of references has opened up a whole new legal minefield - for example, companies giving useless staff excelletn references to get rid of them and vice versa.

[smithy]

The dictionary is half-right. There's no real way for me to explain what neds/charvers are:

I thought the word 'charver' was unique to Geordieland.  In Leeds they call them (I think) 'doods'.

Anyway, it's easy to recognise them:

Hair:
Male: Far too much hair gel, always combed foreward, the fringe is almost glued to the forward.
Female:  lots of hairspray, and a razor-sharp-sticking-out fringe.  Often died blonde or highlights.

Clothes:
Both:  Bomber jackets, usually made by Kappa.  These are huge puffy jackets, often bright red, or navy blue.

Sports shops such as JD Sports are the main source of charver clothes.  Things like stripey jumpers and quite often coodiroy pants - you'll know what I mean if you look in JD sports.  Oh - and the old man flat cap is quite popular in charver males too.

Jewellery:  MASSES of it, in male and females.  Gold soverign rings for both sexes.  Females will have plenty of tacky ear rings.

Accents:  This may be another north-east thing, but charvers don't use the local (Geordie) accent!  They have a strange kind of twisted-words voice that's difficult to explain.