CV HELP (yes another thread)

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Sorry! not another one of these threads, but im out into the real world now after getting my results today. Need to start applying for jobs, before i go bombarding my CV everywhere can you take a look and suggest any improvements.


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Make it look good - I hope that's not your final design it is so uninteresting! I know it is not what you are hired on, the look of your CV, but someone who has a snappy design will get the attention of the an employer over a times new roman-fest.

Rich
 
You don't really need any of your 'additional information' section. Do you know anyone who's nifty with design/typography - good type'll make a difference. You're selling yourself with a CV, it's a reflection of you.

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Shorten your GCSEs, they take up too much valuable 'real estate' space. Just say '6 grades B-C including Maths and English'.

The paragraphs of the jobs need to be shorter and sharper. Try and condense it onto 2 pages, but 2 pages of awesome.
 
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I would personally change the font and try and cut the cv down to 2 pages max. Maybe sumarised your gcse's.
Under operating systems used you might want to change Microsoft windows and vista to Microsoft windows xp and vista.
You dont need to put additional information on your cv as its something they cant really use when looking at potential applicants.
 
Cut it down to 2 pages. Mine is a horrible CV with lots of jobs on it but I can squeeze it down to 2 sides of A4 with more information than yours. So lose the table for your GCSE's, you can just type them out in a line with commas or semi colons. Same with the bullet points, just type them out to save wasting space. I normally use Arial size 10 for the bulk of the wording with Arial bold 11 for titles. No more than one line break if you can get away with it.
 
Two pages max.
Better font - Verdana/Arial/Tahoma pt. 10/11.
Don't even put your GCSEs on there.
Generally tidy and shorten the whole thing up ie employment date on same line as employer.
Additional info not needed.
Save space by turning bulletpoints into a prose list ie A, B and C.
Get rid of Asda - it was too long ago and B&Q supersedes it (same experience).
 
Here we go, just a rough draft using 20pt and 11pt Arial:

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Obviously it's far from perfect, but it shows (in my opinion) how nicer type, a more concise layout and use of all the width of the page can differentiate a CV. I'll email you the doc if you like.
 
Apart from a few random things (i.e. i enjoy to play golf isn't gramattically correct) Tom's looks much better. I'd nab his now!



M.
 
RandomTom said:
Here we go, just a rough draft using 20pt and 11pt Arial:



Obviously it's far from perfect, but it shows (in my opinion) how nicer type, a more concise layout and use of all the width of the page can differentiate a CV. I'll email you the doc if you like.
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Just like to say thankyou, wow what a diffrence, if you could email me that would be brilliant
 
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I doubt all the 'blabla bla bla bla' is grammatically correct either :p
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Close enough though.. :D

Oh and I'd put "References are available... " at the very bottom. Don't know why but that's where I always see it on most peoples CV's and just looks wrong anywhere else.



M.
 
I would try to aim for a one page functional CV. Even if you do stick with a reverse chronological CV then put your employment details first and move education to the end of it. When you talk about your employement you want one to two sentance on what the job was, no more and then under it list your achievements as bullet points. When you describe your achievement make sure it keep them short and snappy. I've been told to write your CV like you are paying for each of the words. The reason for this is that people spend approx 30 seconds reviewing CV's so if they haven't caught your interest by then your in the reject pile.
 
spent most of the afternoon jazzing it up, i agree it looks a lot better but still need improvments. Im a little worried about how page two is mid flow i cant fit it all in on page one, nor can start on page two as page one leaves a big gap at bottom.

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