CV Tips - Intro

When trying to find that ‘ideal’ job, your CV is the most important document. In general your recruiter takes about 30 seconds to decide if your CV is worth spending more time on reading, or one for the ‘NO’ pile. Remember that in most cases your CV is one of many, so make sure that everything in terms of the layout and context is eye catching and not off putting.

The recruiter will either be impressed or “depressed” by the following:

1. Layout
2. Context
3. Skills/experience

In most cases a CV’s good and bad points can be categorised under one of the above three points. The layout is what draws your attention first, secondly the content needs to be correct and finally and most importantly the skills/experience needs to be relevant to the position.

I mention skills last, because it does not matter how good or relevant your skills are to the position, if you put the recruiter off with your CV’s layout and context, your CV will in most cases be discarded.

Anyway, this is just the intro and further details will follow later.