Another CV thread

almoststew1990 · 20 Jul 2015 at 20:09

I am about to start my third year as a Development Transport Planner. For my CV I'm planning on using two sides of A4, with my work experience taking up one side of A4 and my "strengths and weaknesses", "Few Sentances about me" and education going on the other bit of A4. Does this sound like a suitable format?

At this level should I be writing about specific case studies of my role (i.e. examples of planning permissions gained) or should I still be writing about my "main responsibilities"

I'll probably pop it on here when I've finished for your helpful comments!

almoststew1990 · 20 Jul 2015 at 20:26

Thinking about it, I've basically listed my skills in my Employement history section. Would you keep your employment history brief but have a long skills section? i.e. I've said manage projects independently, train graduates and attending design team meetings as stuff I do in my current job when they're basically skills.

Don't worry my writing style for formal letters and documents is very different to my forum writing style

almoststew1990 · 20 Jul 2015 at 20:27

Salsa said:
Genuine question but why would you put your weaknesses on your CV?

/Salsa

Yeah I'm not actually going to put weaknesses; I added weaknesses automatically!

almoststew1990 · 20 Jul 2015 at 20:35

Edrof said:
Is it up to CV-standard?

You tell me!

(In half an hour or so anyway!)

almoststew1990 · 20 Jul 2015 at 21:02

Do you bother with the "exceptional written and oral communication skills" and "proefficient in MS Office" stuff? I'm running out of room so is it safe to assume an employer thinks its a given after a few years in an office environment?

almoststew1990 · 20 Jul 2015 at 21:30

Fair enough!

Thanks for the help guys!

Here is my CV... thoughts?

my dropboxed PDF CV

almoststew1990 · 20 Jul 2015 at 21:46

Thanks for pointing that out!

almoststew1990 · 20 Jul 2015 at 21:48

mattyfez said:
It does read a bit too much like a shopping list, but there is a lot of solid content you can expand on.

I'd say you need to make it a bit more reader friendly, especially to those outside the industry.

Development Transport Planning is quite a small, enclosed industry, so I doubt anyone outside the industry will read it and I'm not really bothered if an external person doesn't understand it to be honest! Even with recruitment agents it seems to be a small cocooned industry so they know what is what.

almoststew1990 · 20 Jul 2015 at 21:54

mattyfez said:
It does read a bit too much like a shopping list, but there is a lot of solid content you can expand on.

I'd say you need to make it a bit more reader friendly, especially to those outside the industry.

when you say shopping list, you mean bullet point-y? I'm not really sure how to list my skills without bullet points, and I've already tried combining them to make the list smaller

almoststew1990 · 20 Jul 2015 at 22:02

I've got "writing Transport Assessments..." which gets submitted to the council, which i do in my current job.

I also have "Provide highways advice to local planning authorities on strategic planning applications by drafting consultation responses" i.e Review Transport Assessments, which is what I did in the old job (i.e. the reverse). I'm not sure if I should have both?

almoststew1990 · 7 Sep 2015 at 19:39

I am now looking to move job a bit more actively so I've dug up my old thread. I've changed the CV based on the constructive comments but I now feel it is very wordy. What do you think now??

PDF linky