Tutorial, Photo Choosing And Fifth Step

Today I had the tutorial with my tutor about the Professional Practice file and the presentation we will have next week. I did say to her that I am a bit concerned about the editorial photography, because I can't find any relevant information about what to do to get the job at the magazine apart from taking a part in various competitions and showing your images in every trustworthy photographic website. As I heard from photographer Lloyd Ellington who works at Bath Chronicle Newspaper that nowadays you just need to know where to show yourself, usually it is enough to post your photographs on the internet and if the magazine or newspaper likes your photographic style they commission you to do something for them. Of course, well known magazines would not search the internet and visit random websites to find photographers. You need to work your way through. How to do it? Suzanne, my tutor, suggested to find the assisting job since we are all 'green' photographers who will graduate this year and don't know much about how it really works. Assisting for another experienced photographer would 'open your eyes' and you would know what to do afterwards plus you would make new contacts and this world is all about contacts...
So I guess now I came up to the fifth step after preparation - find an interesting photographer who lives nearby, send an email and ask for an assisting job or go to the nearest magazine to show your portfolio and expect to get the job. The thing is you wouldn't get one if you wouldn't have first four steps done - strong Portfolio and CV, being known on the internet, locally or internationally, by exhibiting your work/participating in contests. Another thing I could do after assisting - commercial photography, or at least give it a thought.
And about the CV.. my tutor said that we do not need to have a CV which looks like a piece of art. It distracts your attention when you read it and usually if you need a new employee and you get hundreds of CV's you read them very quickly and if it does not interest you at the beginning, you wouldn't finish reading it and move forward to the next one. So then again, I assume my artist statement must be very strong therefore creative and maybe even humorous(?) if it goes at the top of the CV. So the conclusions are that I will use no picture whatsoever on my CV because it distracts the reader, will keep it simple to read (not overcrowded and written in sections) and also will have to think about re-writing my artist statement probably which you can read in our website for London's show. I think it should be shorter but I will keep the main information as it is because it tells what I do and like.
In the end, I would also like to share with all the photographs I am choosing from to create my Portfolio.