C.V - First or Third person?

toshj · 12 Jul 2011 at 12:16

Including interests isn't necessarily a negative thing. In focused industries where it's quite easy to become defined by your job (i.e. finance) a lot of hiring managers like to see that candidates actually have a life outside of work.

Amleto · 12 Jul 2011 at 12:28

lol at all these 'statements'. Half of them are fragments that are annoying to read (poor English) anyway.

Third person on CV is an old thing, maybe it is coming back into fashion, but I wont ever use it.

Vulcan · 12 Jul 2011 at 12:49

Delvis said:
Indeed, for example:

Solid technical and fault finding abilities.
Fully committed to and experienced
in supporting clients and systems. A
confident communicator, comfortable
working both remotely or on-site within
a help desk environment

That's not third person though.

Delvis · 12 Jul 2011 at 12:50

Longbow said:
That's not third person though.

I never said it was...I was replying to this:

Originally Posted by s0ck View Post
This is exactly it, imo.

Don't take it so literally as the third person, you just don't litter it with, 'I DID THIS AND I DID THAT.'

?

aardvark · 12 Jul 2011 at 12:50

lol at third person - i wouldn't interview anyone who did that, and neither would my boss.

mangobreeder · 12 Jul 2011 at 12:59

gambitt said:
But when you receive 300-500 CVs for a role you need to have a quick (likely superficial) method of narrowing them down

maybe for Mcdonalds, but the jobs i need staff for, require a specific set of skill and experiences, regarding tax. I let the Agency and HR filter out the dross, and send me on those which i should scrutinise.

arknor · 12 Jul 2011 at 13:06

write it as 4th person friend of a friend or a stalker

Vonhelmet · 12 Jul 2011 at 13:29

arknor said:
write it as 4th person friend of a friend or a stalker

Write it in second person, for the ultimate mind****.

arknor · 12 Jul 2011 at 13:31

nonhelmet said:
Write it in second person, for the ultimate mind****.

whats second person ? multiple personality ?
you could give arguments where one personality is better for this job than your other ones

SpaghettiOs · 12 Jul 2011 at 13:33

arknor said:
whats second person ? multiple personality ?
you could give arguments where one personality is better for this job than your other ones

Second person would be writing from the perspective of someone talking directly to the person the CV is written about. E.g. "You are hard working..."

Now that would be special.

Vonhelmet · 12 Jul 2011 at 13:33

arknor said:
whats second person ? multiple personality ?
you could give arguments where one personality is better for this job than your other ones

Second person is like a choose your own adventure book - "You did this, you did that".

neodude · 12 Jul 2011 at 13:44

Go for second person. It'll be original if nothing else.

.Lethal · 12 Jul 2011 at 14:15

Twentyone said:
Third person? Dear god.

I don't think I would ever call someone in for an interview if they did that.

Liampope · 12 Jul 2011 at 14:41

Surely only Craig David has a CV in third person?

Definately first person for me. You don't have to start every sentence with 'I did/I was' which does indeed sound like a primary school kid writing his 'what I did at the weekend' essay. For example: 'This role involved...', 'As part of the team for...', 'During...' etc etc. I do also have a company CV, however, which has an introduction written in the third person, used by the company when staff CVs are attached to tenders, or when they try to pimp us out on secondments, etc. That's the only time I'd consider a third person CV appropriate and not horribly pretentious.