Advice on my C.V.

[NickK]

I think it could be easier to say that your personal statement/profile/summary can be driven with a few sentences including "I". Whilst listing employment experience you can approach what you've done without having to start each sentence "I did ...". It's considered better style rather than being incorrect grammar.

I, I, I, I was a start of a song I believe

 

[Mr Jack]

I think it could be easier to say that your personal statement/profile/summary can be driven with a few sentences including "I". Whilst listing employment experience you can approach what you've done without having to start each sentence "I did ...". It's considered better style rather than being incorrect grammar.

Oh, yeah, you don't want to be all I, I, I, but - in my view - it should always be in the first person. E.g. I am a .... During my time at... We formed... My team.... My experience of.... Following the success of ... I was promoted to ....

 

[Stolly]

My CV has no personal information whatsoever, no age, sex, address hobbies or anything. Just email and phone number and oddly i've had 2 interviews for permanent roles in the last month.

Its just what my experience and qualifications are.

 

[Stolly]

erm, that's the point of a CV, people DO go over it with a fine toothcomb. My question to a candidate (if they ever made it that far) would be along those exact lines - which is why I mentioned it.

Seriously though, if someone is skim-reading, is it more important to be concise or verbose? Regardless, people aren't going to miss these things, and repeating what's already been mentioned, or stating things twice in different ways stands out a mile and just makes the CV harder to read.

I spotted them and I only skim-read it myself.

/me shrugs.

Thats only true of the second stage. First stage is where a recruitment agent goes though a stack of CV's to pick out a shortlist so they can send 3 or so onto the client. At least in the industry i work in. Roles are having applicants into the hundreds.

 

[RDM]

According to whom?

Most recruitment agencies and the recruitment consultants (Rights Management) we had in when we were made redundant. And several managers and senior managers I have asked to review my CV.

Every company I've been at we rip the michael out of them before throwing them in the bin. The only think worse is sticking your name on the sentences, makes you sound like a wrestler.

To be fair pretty much every time I have been involved in interviews in the past the main positive was getting to take the p out of all the CVs.

 

[Mr Jack]

Most recruitment agencies and the recruitment consultants (Rights Management) we had in when we were made redundant. And several managers and senior managers I have asked to review my CV.

Fair enough.

To be fair pretty much every time I have been involved in interviews in the past the main positive was getting to take the p out of all the CVs.

True that. I love the ones who send in pictures

 

[RDM]

Fair enough.

Alas it is somewhat personal pain at the moment. However if you know of any infrastructure roles in the NW let me know, whilst not working is quite nice the financial side of it is somewhat grim.

True that. I love the ones who send in pictures

I always wondered why anyone would do that? "Hi, this is me, damn, don't I look good, hire me!"

 

[Mr^B]

Thats only true of the second stage. First stage is where a recruitment agent goes though a stack of CV's to pick out a shortlist so they can send 3 or so onto the client. At least in the industry i work in. Roles are having applicants into the hundreds.

The recruitment agent will use a keyword search on the CV, nothing more complex - and as such you only need to include the keyword once, and you don't need to explain in words the time spent in various jobs.

Bear in mind that the SAME CV is sent to both agents and employers, and you see the need to be CLEAR and CONCISE with the information therein.

Repeating the same information in two ways isn't concise, neither is the fact that you edit spreadsheets with Excel.

Besides which, people reading the CV are far more interested in the Why rather than the What.

- I edited spreadsheets in Excel

Is meaningless, utterly meaningless

- I edited forex data in a spreadsheet in order to save the brokers time when placing trades.

Is better as it has context.

- I managed forex data in a spreadsheet, saving the brokers an estimate of 1 hour per day.

Is better as it has the why as well as the context.

Still, I've only been hiring people for 10 years, what the hell would I know!

 

[jp_bl_68]

Rather than start another CV thread I thought I'd just hijack an old one:

That "Additional Interests" part I threw in because I'd seen it on a few other CVs and a friend said it was a good idea to include it.

Any thoughts on my CV?


edit- This is just a general CV it hasn't been tailored to any specific job.