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Personally I'd take out the key skills bit. It can be easily condensed to two sentences.
Punctual is not a skill, it is a requirement. There is no need for an example. I would remove the 'built my own computer' line as well as you have it in your interests section.
Computer Skills - Just change it to something like 'I am competent in the use of bla bla bla.' rather than bullet points.
Put your work experience after your personal statement, then education following work experience.
Lastly, are you sending cover letters with your cv. It may take you 10 mins or so to write it for each job, but that's the place to site examples of what you can do in the specific roles and why you would be a worthwhile addition to the company.
Generally for lower roles they will have 10's of cv's so will just give each one a glance over. If anything looks crap at first glance they are binned, it's harsh but the only way to narrow down cv's quickly. So have 'Employment History' at the top. A cv is only there to get you to the interview, you can go into more depth with specific points at the interview.
Name address etc...
This is a personal preference I guess, but to me centered with everything on a new line looks school boyish. Personally I have my name a couple of sizes bigger, then on the line below have my address, phone and email on the same line and underline across the page. Not explained that very well, just have a look at examples of other ways to lay it out.
Not that my cv is any good though
oh, personal preference again, make the gsce box transparent and make the first line of bullet points align to same location as the the others on the document.
Punctual is not a skill, it is a requirement. There is no need for an example. I would remove the 'built my own computer' line as well as you have it in your interests section.
Computer Skills - Just change it to something like 'I am competent in the use of bla bla bla.' rather than bullet points.
Put your work experience after your personal statement, then education following work experience.
Lastly, are you sending cover letters with your cv. It may take you 10 mins or so to write it for each job, but that's the place to site examples of what you can do in the specific roles and why you would be a worthwhile addition to the company.
Generally for lower roles they will have 10's of cv's so will just give each one a glance over. If anything looks crap at first glance they are binned, it's harsh but the only way to narrow down cv's quickly. So have 'Employment History' at the top. A cv is only there to get you to the interview, you can go into more depth with specific points at the interview.
Name address etc...
This is a personal preference I guess, but to me centered with everything on a new line looks school boyish. Personally I have my name a couple of sizes bigger, then on the line below have my address, phone and email on the same line and underline across the page. Not explained that very well, just have a look at examples of other ways to lay it out.
Not that my cv is any good though
oh, personal preference again, make the gsce box transparent and make the first line of bullet points align to same location as the the others on the document.
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