CV Advice

Peño · 2 Jan 2015 at 18:14

Don't want to bore everyone so will try and keep this brief!

I've got an interview in 3 weeks with an IT company and (without being arrogant) it's more of a "welcome to the company". They've asked for my CV and as mine is 5 years old I've had to re-write everything! It's one page and 400 words - just for context my last one was two pages and 950 words.

Given the context, I think it's enough to highlight my experience and discuss further in-person. However they could look at it as lazy and unprofessional which would be a complete embarrassment!

People of OcUK, please could you lend me your time, eyes, and opinions!

Just a bit of context:

I've been an IT (associate) consultant for the past 3 years at a large consultancy - 3 different projects
Specialized in a specific technology which this new company specializes in
Would be moving from a large firm (100k+ employees) to a small firm (less than 200 employees)
In terms of role, would be moving sideways and would need to negotiate to meet my current package expectations
New company is young with a good client base but has only been around for 2 years
CV only highlights past 3 years of work and I've made the information anonymous by describing the detail and padding out for visual layout
Template taken off the Guardian Careers website - as such haven't bothered to add in tables or format styles (aesthetics)

Image of CV (please shout if broken):

Thanks!

Mynight · 2 Jan 2015 at 18:16

Might be a bit much to expect them to speak lorem ipsum.

Whenever I've read CVs it's always preferable when they're short and to the point. I don't need to know "I am a hard worker, very computer literate,ect." As I'll work that out during the interview. Grades, jobs, time spent in role and brief overview of responsibilities are enough.

rubberduck · 2 Jan 2015 at 18:24

Peño said:
However they could look at it as lazy and unprofessional which would be a complete embarrassment!

In which case they would be spot on!

dowie · 2 Jan 2015 at 18:25

don't see the problem really

you've got the interview anyway... you've got your qualifications and relevant work experience and a bit of guff about yourself - were there no other jobs between uni and your current role?

seems OK anyway - maybe cite a few open source projects you've been involved with rather than just putting 'open source experimenter'...

Peño · 2 Jan 2015 at 23:22

Mynight said:
Might be a bit much to expect them to speak lorem ipsum.

Ha!

dowie said:
were there no other jobs between uni and your current role?

seems OK anyway - maybe cite a few open source projects you've been involved with rather than just putting 'open source experimenter'...

Had a few jobs after uni but none relevant.

Cheers - haven't been part of any projects yet though, mostly personal ones for fun!