Help with a CV

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Number_25

Number_25

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Hey guys,

So I've been on the lookout for a job during the summer holiday, and as of yet - I've been unsuccessful in every job I've applied for.

After sitting down and actually looking at the CV which I have been giving out, I realised that it was a complete load of rubbish.

So over the past two days, I've been working on a new CV and this is what I've been left with.

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Is there anything wrong with it?

Is there anything that I've worded incorrectly?

Thanks.
 
Go into more detail... If you're going to give someone two pages... Use all the space!

Edit.

The way I do mine is to have have various profiles which are about a paragraph each.

* Personal Profile (Summary of everything)
* Skills Profile (Lengthy bullet points of what skills specific for the job I have, this is about 2/3 paragraphs
* Academic Profile (Paragraph on what I have learn't at each place... Less for High School just naming grades I achieved)
* Industrial Profile (Paragraph on what I have learnt in each industrial place)
* Extra curricular Activities (Lengthy bullet points on what I do in my spare time naming skills for each one... cheesy yes, but they want that)
* References
 
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A second page on a CV is rarely justified.

Cut the references section, trim personal interests to a paragraph, tailor the skills section to each job (if you're using Outlook and Word all day, they won't care if you can use a Mac) and reduce the font size and spacing to reduce the huge amount of white space.

For the work experience, give the job title, describe your duties in a single sentence and then summarise what skills you gained from it.
 
Updated my previous post to give a little more help. TJM suggests you don't need a second page. This will vary for each different job area but in mine, 2 is standard and 3 is acceptable to help list publications you might have done.

I'm in science.
 
Looks pretty good to me. Maybe add a few sentences at the top to outline your career ambitions and main strengths.

Also, do not include the football team you support on a CV. That could immediately put you at a disadvantage if they support say Liverpool. Adds nothing to boost your profile either.
 
Not sure what type of roles your going for but in general when I review C.V.'s these days I have loads... So you want to make sure that in the 10 seconds that your C.V. is given you stand out..

I would suggest that you put the usual rubbish in a personal profile first... just 2 - 3 lines and then adjust this to suit the roles you are applying to..

Secondly I would put a key skills section.. again if you have a job description in front of you best thing to do is to modify this for each role.. adding a 'key skill' for each of the desired skills in the job description that you meet.. (maybe 5 max.. you can normally get a key skill to cover more than one requirement).

Then really its down to ensuring you don't have anything silly like spelling mistakes, etc...

Assuming that you have enough experience / the required skills then at least you should get to the stage where your C.V. gets a more detailed review.
 
I was talking to someone who employs a lot of IT quite recently, and he said that I might as well cut the personal stuff from it and purely go for education and work experience.

This is what I've got now.

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I don't know much about CVs in the IT sector - so this may be BS. But, it seems a little generic to me and is unlikely to get you noticed. I would be tempted to add one or both of the following. Hopefully some one in the area can say if this is a good idea or not.

A personal statement briefly detailing you and your ambitions - make the latter very specific to the job and an advantage i.e., you need this job to further your career and this is going to make you excel in the role.

Secondly, I have sat a number of postgraduate job application courses and one good technique they teach is to add a key skills section up front and make sure you get the key skills they want in it. This way as they are scanning 100s of CVs and get to you it is clear in a second that you have the skills they want and they may take a little extra time over your application.

See what others think - works for me anyway.

Quick edit: I don't mean a statement about your hobbies by the way. I mean about your skills and background
 
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