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

#11

Post by user24 »

KoZeN wrote: post #10
user24 wrote: post #9

I'm think my CV is pretty well polished, but I've never asked for professional feedback on it, so let me know what you think: http://www.puremango.co.uk/2009/08/php-cv/ I'm particularly interested in whether you think the order of sections (education->work->general->personal) works, and whether my copy sells. Thanks for the offer! PS: I'm not looking for work at the moment, so please prioritise my request lower than…

I've just had a very quick look and my instant opinion would be to change how you clarify your responsibilites. Whilst the paragraph descriptions are well written my suggestion on your current role for example would be to keep the first paragraph in place and immediately after that I would bullet point a list of your primary responsibilities. Overall it is a decent CV but I'll have a proper look and send you the feed…

Wow, instant feedback! Thanks :) I'll have a think about what my responsibilities actually are!

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

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Post by KoZeN »

user24 wrote: post #11
KoZeN wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've just had a very quick look and my instant opinion would be to change how you clarify your responsibilites. Whilst the paragraph descriptions are well written my suggestion on your current role for example would be to keep the first paragraph in place and immediately after that I would bullet point a list of your primary responsibilities. Overall it is a decent CV but I'll have a proper look and send you the feed…

Wow, instant feedback! Thanks :) I'll have a think about what my responsibilities actually are!

Be honest and be specific. Leave out flowery points like Liasing with various departments & attending meetings for example.

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

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Post by ethagnawl »

do you have any generally applicable advice based on your past experience and the responses you've received so far?

i'm attempting to write my first CV as a developer applying for an open position and am feeling a bit overwhelmed.

thanks for the offering up your expertise!

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

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Post by KoZeN »

ethagnawl wrote: post #14

do you have any generally applicable advice based on your past experience and the responses you've received so far? i'm attempting to write my first CV as a developer applying for an open position and am feeling a bit overwhelmed. thanks for the offering up your expertise!

General advice is quite difficult.

If you're looking for structural ideas, take a look at user24's CV that he linked below. His structure is ideal. Simplistic and logical but make sure you read the feedback I gave him on listing his responsibilities.

Once you have the CV put together, send it to me and I'll do my best to be as constructive as possible as it's much easier to advise when referencing a specific CV.

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

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Post by KoZeN »

inerte wrote: post #13

What a coincidence! A few days ago I had some ideas about CV reviewing, and since you're a recruiter, could you provide some feedback if the service would be useful? :) http://www.inerciasensorial.com.br/2010/10/14/geral/crowd-re...

Interesting approach.

To be honest any recruiter posting someones CV publicly asking advice on suitability for a specific job is going to get torn to shreds.

Recruitment is an incredibly cut throat, incestuous market and any recruiter worth his salt won't be faced with ambiguity over whether or not a CV would be suitable for a job.

Most CV's that are difficult to interpret tend to be specialist skillsets and 9 times out of 10 a vacancy that requires a niche skillset will have agencies that specialise in that area and understand the skillset working on it.

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

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Post by sanswork »

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 free to send them over to me as well. My email is in my profile though I can only honestly help if you're targeting development roles.

Same disclaimer about time though, I will try to do any I get through over the next couple of nights though.

Edit: If you could include what type of role you are targetting(tech startup, agency, finance, etc) it would really help with my advice.

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

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Post by KoZeN »

svag wrote: post #17

That is a great offer KoZeN, especially for those that are currently seeking a job...

Thanks, I just hope people will be patient with me as the response has been immense!

As a recruiter I get frustrated when I hear about great candidates not even getting a look-in purely because of their CV.

Unfortunately few people are willing to pay to get their CV reviewed because a lot of people believe that it's purely a matter of opinion which can vary from employer to employer which is essentially true but there are a lot of fundamental errors that are universal and that's the advice I'm hoping to offer.

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

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Post by KoZeN »

sanswork wrote: post #18

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…

Great offer sanswork!

It would be interesting to see how your feedback would differ to mine on certain CV's. I definitely think that you will get flooded with CV's though!

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