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Re: Offer HN: I will review and critique your CV.

#81
Great offer. Perhaps a small idea for those looking to put an original element in their CV that I used successfully:

Put your Skills in as a Tagcloud. Strong skills get a bigger fontsize than minor skills. Additionally I used grey tones to indicate which skills have been used more recently and which are older (more grey than black, paling so to speak.)

It is somewhat daring, because not necessarily everyone gets tagclouds yet - but I was invited quite a few times for the tag cloud to interviews.

Re: Offer HN: I will review and critique your CV.

#82
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22 CV's received so far! Looks like I'm going to be kept busy. I will do my absolute best to respond to each and every one of you but you will need to be patient. Anyone else looking to send me a CV, please fire away but it would help if you could include info on what you would like me to focus on, eg. are you concerned about specific content, is it the layout or format that you feel is letting you down, etc. UPDATE:…

Here's adding to your workload - http://sidmitra.com/resume.pdf Let me know if i can every repay your effort with some of my skill sets.

Up for comments: https://crocodoc.com/gYIcAa

Re: Offer HN: I will review and critique your CV.

#83
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22 CV's received so far! Looks like I'm going to be kept busy. I will do my absolute best to respond to each and every one of you but you will need to be patient. Anyone else looking to send me a CV, please fire away but it would help if you could include info on what you would like me to focus on, eg. are you concerned about specific content, is it the layout or format that you feel is letting you down, etc. UPDATE:…

Here's adding to your workload - http://sidmitra.com/resume.pdf Let me know if i can every repay your effort with some of my skill sets.

...Programming ninja...

I'm not sure whom this is meant to appeal to.

Re: Offer HN: I will review and critique your CV.

#84
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Thanks very much for this. I've never had much luck with recruiters and my C.V so any feedback you have would be greatly appreciated. I've also decided to upload it here. http://www.alanhollis.com/Alan_Hollis.pdf Please note I'm not actively seeking employment at the moment but might as well take advantage of the opportunity to get some constructive criticism whilst it's here.

I'm not a recruiter, but my opinion is that 'experience' should mean 'commercial experience'. By saying you've got seven years (4 commercial) you look like you're trying to bump up your figures. Page 3 is ridiculous. Shorten your borders and margins and get it onto 2 pages. Overuse of bullets for my liking, esp when really you're putting paragraphs in. Bullets are for Tell people what they care about. Eg: > Livenumbe…

The way I see it if you're thinking it, others looking at my C.V will too. I agree with every point you make and will make the changes accordingly.

Thanks very much for your feedback!

Re: Offer HN: I will review and critique your CV.

#86
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22 CV's received so far! Looks like I'm going to be kept busy. I will do my absolute best to respond to each and every one of you but you will need to be patient. Anyone else looking to send me a CV, please fire away but it would help if you could include info on what you would like me to focus on, eg. are you concerned about specific content, is it the layout or format that you feel is letting you down, etc. UPDATE:…

112 CV's & counting. I've given very brief responses to some of you but I am determined to get through all of them in detail. Remember, all I am offering is my informed opinion and if you disagree with my advice, don't take it personally!

Currently in the middle of a job search so feedback on this would be very helpful!

http://miazmatic.com/wiki/images/0/04/Tech-resume.pdf

Re: Offer HN: I will review and critique your CV.

#87
Over 200 CV's received so far so can I ask that you don't submit any more new requests?

I intend on responding to everyone who has emailed me up until now and I am going through each request chronologically.

Thank you so much for all your messages of support.

Re: Offer HN: I will review and critique your CV.

#88
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Great offer ! Here is mine : http://cv.david.cx Also, I'm a French citizen seeking employment in the US (Orlando, Florida to be precise), do you have some special advice for what I should change in my CV in regard to this ?

I've only had a quick look but like everyone else, I will have a detailed look over the next few days. Firstly, my market is London & the South East of England so advice on modifying your CV to suit the American market is probably best fielded by someone with more experience in that area. Secondly, you have been working on your own company for over a year and you have surmised that experience in 45 words whereas you…

Thank you ! That's a great point. I'll try to change that. Don't hesitate to give me more feedback, if you have time, of course.

Re: Offer HN: I will review and critique your CV.

#89

This is great and I think I can help as well from a slightly different view point(not to steal any thunder!). I'm head of development for a search related company and as part of my role review all incoming CV's(with advice from one of my senior devs) as well as handle the most of the interviews. If you'd like two perspectives(Recruiter who will work to get you an interview and HoD who will ultimately hire you) feel f…

I don't want to steal your thunder stealing but I am so excited to see this that if either sanswork or KoZen get swamped or if anyone wants a third set of eyes I would happily offer my critique. I am an educator in the US. I teach our department's professional practices course. In graduate school I gave a seminar to the graduate college on CV development. I ran a small company for someone for 3 years and did all the CV/resume reviewing. My area of training is as a visual artist. Prior to my university work I did a lot of freelance design work for museums, galleries, art agencies and artists. I managed CV's for artists and galleries. I actually advised one gentleman who had a 91 page CV. My professional experience here at the university has been in the development of curriculum that address visual organization of information. This is all by way of saying I can best offer a critique from this perspective. I'm not tech illiterate. I do work with HTML and CSS regularly. I started learning PHP this year as a new years resolution. I started teaching myself AppleScript 11 years ago and I'm proficient with it. But, I'm not offering to review these from the same perspective as sanswork or KoZen, but from another professional who has a lot of experience with this.

As a caveat for those who might think I'm looking for teaching examples for free, I promise I'm not. Just really want to help out. Same disclaimer about time. I've already done some mark up on rdamico's CV on crocodoc if you want to take a look at some of my quick remarks on his.

Re: Offer HN: I will review and critique your CV.

#90
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22 CV's received so far! Looks like I'm going to be kept busy. I will do my absolute best to respond to each and every one of you but you will need to be patient. Anyone else looking to send me a CV, please fire away but it would help if you could include info on what you would like me to focus on, eg. are you concerned about specific content, is it the layout or format that you feel is letting you down, etc. UPDATE:…

Here's adding to your workload - http://sidmitra.com/resume.pdf Let me know if i can every repay your effort with some of my skill sets.

One positive: I really like your typography. Which fonts are you using?
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