How To Get The Job You Really
Really Want - Creating The
Perfect CV - Length
Of the CV that is! Between two and four pages of A4
is about the right length. How can I possibly get all of my
experience in that short space? It may be difficult, but any more
and you are beginning to create a paper monster. Remember, other
people have to read your CV. If it is too long they will not
bother. It is too much effort. Ask yourself how you would
feel? I remember a situation where a Recruitment Consultant working
for me sent a twenty six page CV to a client, this is what happened.
It was an Information Technology CV and back before
email had really taken off in 1993/4. The CV had to be sent via HR.
Firstly personnel complained about it taking up too much fax
time. They delayed sending it to the line manager. The line
manager thought it was a joke. When the consultant rang, the line
manager said he could not be bothered to read that sort of CV and
had thrown it in the bin. In fact, he had passed it around all
the other line managers who had had a damn good laugh at it.
That consultant never lived it down and was always greeted with "Oh
you were the consultant who sent the twenty six page CV down,
weren't you?"
Now, that particular applicant was a very highly
skilled computer technician. After a bit of effort we managed to
trim his CV to four pages, and guess what? He got a contract with
that self same client. In fact, he still contracted for my company
for many years.
Fortunately he has a sense of humour and can now
laugh at his own personal War and Peace.
So, keep it simple, relevant and concise. DO NOT
WAFFLE.
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