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Why your tech CV sucks
If you are considering a job switch and have some time to spare, the following could interest you: Why your tech CV sucks
If after reading you still have time, you could check Reg man the most-flamed recruiter in the UK? Quote:
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As someone who had to go job hunting twice in the last few weeks, I can tell you that writing a *good* CV is not something you quickly do in an evening in between playing a computer game and watching a movie. I spent great amount of time to the layout, typography, spelling, grammar, etc, which is why my CV doesn't suck (IMHO), it will cost you time making the CV, but it will show in the end result and save you time in the long run. I got invited for an interview by every company I sent my CV to except for one, and that one was a recruiter who offered me a C#/.Net position just after I told him I never did any real Windows development except for some fairly simple Python and C programs ... ... It's not just some CV's that get redirected to /dev/null at first glance, some recruiters deserve the same fate (And, for the record, my CV does have a list of "buzzwords", where neither C# not .NET, not anything remotely similar, are mentioned). Quote:
Now, this is of course completely deprecated and useless today, in fact, it was completely deprecated and useless when I started with it in ~1997-1998, but I do feel it can add to the "general picture" of an applicant, in this particular example it shows that programming is more than "just a job to pay the bills" ... Things like Daemonforums.org, some personal code projects, and other stuff are mentioned for the same reason. I should add this is mentioned at the bottom under "Miscellaneous", and it's just a single line with a link, please don't make an entire chapter from it, but it can help, especially if you need to make up for lack in official education and have limited applicable experience (like me). In any case, it was brought up in some way in every interview I had in very positive way. Again, it shows you're more than a 9-5 deskbound slave who's only interested in paying the bills and may also show off some skills. Quote:
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I have one addition: You may want to consider that recruiters know how to use Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Chances are your name *will* be searched there. So be conscious about what it will turn up. If you come across like an asshole on Twitter, or constantly call your customers idiots on Facebook, you may want to consider removing this or settings access to private. Of course, not posting this sort of thing in the first place would probably be better
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By reading some of the comments I finally found out, why recruiters want the MS Word format ......
From http://forums.theregister.co.uk/foru...11/10/your_cv/ Quote:
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