I have had quite a few posts in my time, which has given me an enormous wealth of skills and experience. Obviously this is a huge positive point in job hunting - or at least it should be. Now try and take all that skills and experience, and put it down on two sheets of A4, with clear, concise, easy-to-read formatting. Not possible. Somewhere there is going to be a list of bullet pointed responsibilities in one job which is going to overlap to the next page. And when that happens, if you have the entry within a cell on an inserted table, it is bound to leave a line at the bottom of one page. I hate Word and I hate tables. After three hours of playing with this thing, I gave up. At least I now have a rough draft of what I want it to look like.
I have an appointment with an employment consultant in the morning, so I am going to run it past him for some input and play with it some more. There is one thing for sure, there is no way I can reduce a full CV to two pages. Three, possibly four, is going to be more likely. Employers are too bloody picky by half. I am well aware that they want experienced staff. If that is the case, then they should either accept a two page skills based CV, or a four page CV with full employment history.
Writing a CV is my least favourite thing, which is evident when you look at mine. I understand why people get paid to do it for other people.
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