Can someone check/criticise my cv please?

Chiz

Chiz

Chiz

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Ok, so i need a job in the IT sector.

This is my CV to date.

You may wonder why i've put experience at the top, but i joined an agency yesterday and the guy told me it would be more effective if i put a little bit about my skills and career path at the beggining rather than anywhere else (i think this is due to me having no previous experience working within the IT sector)

Also, my hobbies and interests... should i elaborate on that? make it a little bit more interesting? - kind of hard, when that's all i'm really interested in lol.


Oh, and ideally i would like a job, any job in the IT sector, or even as a buyer/expiditor.... i really just need a job right now. lol.

Criticism is what i'm expecting here, so i'd like to hear what you think.


Thank you.

EDITED...again lol.

My CV

MY UPDATED CV

(excuse the font and page breaks. The font changed during the doc - pdf conversion.)
 
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Had no idea you had to be a member to view it.

I needed space to upload it, and that was the first thing i found.
 
leaving your personal contact details and posting it on an open website isnt a good idea ;)
 
My goal is to work within the IT sector, as most aspects of computing I find enjoyable and challenging.
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My goal is to work within the IT sector, as I find most aspects of computing enjoyable and challenging.
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There is a . (dot) underneith the 2006-2006 JD sports bit. Nothing major just might aswell be changed.
 
A few pointers:

It looks a bit boring, maybe change the font, size and bold the titles, that kind of thing.

Uni: I wouldnt go into so much detail about the modules you did, maybe a few sentences/bullets giving an overview of what you did etc. and projects/achievements during that time e.g. group projects/dissertation

Jobs: Again try and link your roles to your skills, spell it out them them how you are right for the job and make it relevant to the roles of the job. Things like time management e.t.c.

Try not to put much, if anything about computing/computers in our hobbies and interests section, show that you have a life outside of computers. Try and put proof of activities, e.g. played for x football team in x league, and link it to your personal skills .e.g helps me to increase my interpersonal and team skills.

reference >> references

Apart from that its good...

I'll email you mine if you want, its had many hours down the uni careers service perfecting it :p (when converting it to pdf a lot of the formatting got messed up e.g. the lines and bullets - it usually looks nicer than that!)

get it here
 
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You should expand any real life examples of where you have put your skills into practice and make it sound good.

Did you do any projects on your courses ? - I would want to know how the skills you have learnt will be relevant to the workplace so anything that helps demonstrates this will be good.

Maybe, you could put something about how you are looking for your first role in IT and are looking for a junior position.

Make it sound more exciting and big yourself up more :) - otherwise you won't get past the executive filling cabinet.
 
Looks very good actually.

Yes you could lay it out with some fancier fonts but other than the small errors others have pointed out there's nothing massively out of place there IMO.
 
Good eye there!!!!, apart from i'm not quite sure where i should change program to programme? if it's Software Development - Program Planning, well it's program, because it was a computer program i was developing. Not a program on how to develop it.

Also, i've updated my cv, and changed a few things (apart from travelling, and centre lol)

The font has changed through conversion to pdf so please don't worry, it's just the content i'm interesting in.

And i'm in Portlethen, why do you ask?

UPDATED CV
 
For someone who has designed websites your CV comes across very formal and a tad boring. When you first glance at it it could easily be a boring legal document like a divorce paper. Can't you make it look a little more eye catching and loose the snooze factor?
 
A. try summarize more and instead of having 8 bulletpoints do a short 2-3 sentence overall summary, then try reduce the bulletpoints. Having 8 or more bulletpoints tends to be boring and are mostly skipped when reading.

B. try fit it all on 2 pages

C. you could reduce the size by stating "References available on request". No point "broadcasting" the names and addresses of your references to all sorts of agencies - whom will no doubt start bothering your references in order to look for jobs/candidates...


hope this helps.
 
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