Critique my CV

Remember that it is the top half of the first page that attracts attention.

See if you can condense each of your two jobs to a short intro paragraph, five roles / responsibilities, and two key achievements. Move your skillset section to up top and make it a combined buzzword bingo paragraph. Actually, your two jobs seem to be concurrent and for the same employer so isn't it really just one job? You're a new graduate; employers don't expect a huge job history.

I don't see any mention of a driving license: if you have one, mention it. And if it's clean state that too. Also mention any clearances and vettings you have.

Not the same job, I started with them as an IT technician, then in 2014 I became an MI Systems Officer / Network Technician, time split 80 / 20 then I went back to Network Systems Officer after a previous colleague left the role. So for a time, both aspects of the job took place at the same time, but I feel the job differences warrant separation.

I do drive and my license is clean. Just not sure where I could mention that no clearances to speak of, I don't work in any government or secret capacity, just Education.
 
Then make sure that the distinction is made. Just put '(1 day per week)' or whatever alongside the job.

I'll try and figure out a way to do that, its rather convoluted, as I started in IT FT, then went MI / IT, then MI FT then to IT FT again...

Put the driving license info on the second page. As for vetting, since you work in education, haven't you been vetted in some regard for working with children, handling sensitive information, and the such like? CRB / DBS / Safeguarding / whatever they call it these days?

Oh god yes, every five minutes it seems we have to have updates and courses taken to raise awareness of it all. In regards to this what would be the best heading to put all that under?
 
Are you looking for a Networking or BI role next, I would separate the roles under the same company and put the role I'm looking at moving into higher up

That's where i'm at abit of a loss, as one of my main driving objectives is to relocate to the states as I have a large network of friends there, I have spoken to people there and they say pretty much that Networking is pointless to show off, a trained monkey can do it, the BI route is more like it however even that is not a niche enough skill to entice them. They are apparently looking for Information Security, Data Scientists, Analysts and Big Data engineers, Hadoop, Hive etc. Which i've looked at but haven't found a concrete answer on where to start learning that or to achieve any form of certification on it?
 
Would be easier to find a job with a large company that has some US offices and try and engineer a move that way, or marry an American

Long shot but is there any website out there that lists businesses in the UK that have offices in the US? Even longer shot, by state in the US...
 
If you are serious about moving to the US then join the US military.

Well, apart from my hesitation on wanting to be shot and killed in a war that I couldn't care for, in order to join the US military you don't have to be a US citizen however you must be a resident i.e. Green Card holder so that's me out..
 
Eh? So that entire list of bullet points on the first page is from one employer?

You could turn this into a 1 page CV tbh...

No one cares if you purport to have "streamlined process...", "assisted colleagues...", "resolved staff and student claims in a positive and timely manner" - that's just pointless fluff that people needlessly put in about themselves... you might as well have thrown in claims about being "organised" or being a "self starter" etc... it's all waffle and tells us nothing about what you actually do in your role or what you've achieved.

Also you've got a section for your skills, you don't need to duplicate that by using bullet points to list the same skills under the work experience section

What is interesting is just getting across the gist of what you did there and maybe some key achievements (if they are worth mentioning, otherwise don't force some in). You don't need much for the previous roles, the important one is the current one, I don't care much about the details of the entry level IT tasks you did 7 years ago if you're doing something rather more advanced now - it is good to mention the role as it shows progression but beyond that meh...

You could do that in about a third of the page and then whack in your education and skills on the same page too - you've got a college course, a foundation degree and a (pending) Bachelors degree - that isn't going to be hard to fit in.

I'd be tempted to lay it out more like the below - don't needlessly confuse them with overlapping timelines etc...

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Employer

Network Systems Officer 2018 - Present

(insert say 3 lines talking about this role)
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MI Systems Officer 2014 - 2018

(no one gives a **** if you were actually 80% this role and 20% the entry level role - just keep it simple and talk about this role for a couple of lines)
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IT Technician 2012 - 2014

(doesn't need more than 1 line really, it's your entry level role from years ago at the same employer as the above roles, don't need many details)

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Just keep it simple, no one wants to read a whole page of bullet points especially if there is a load of fluff/pointless ones thrown in. Showing some progression is great though, if you've been somewhere for 7 years then progressing in terms of job titles etc.. tells a nice story.

It could be worth throwing in a few lines at the end to tell them a little bit about yourself - few hobbies etc... for example I used to go scuba diving (I don't anymore) but had it on my old CV and it was a talking point in a couple of interviews. If you find a common interest then that allows a little break in the interview (one interviewer started going off about wrecks he'd dived on in the north sea for example) or have a hobby or have done something that they might find interesting even if it isn't a common interest then it is worth putting it down.



That's a bit generic tbh... better to think about what job you'd actually want to do then find relevant companies.

Thanks for this. I've updated my CV working more off of this style, again, any advice offered is greatly appreciated.
 
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