CV Hell: Son of CV rides again

[j4]

Yes, j4 is still whinging about jobs.

I phoned the University Temporary Employment Services (i.e. cam.ac.uk temp agency) and, obviously, they want me to send them a CV. And now I'm having a crisis of confidence to the effect that my CV is too crap to send to anybody.

My current CV looks like this, only it usually looks a bit neater since I've just hastily converted it from Word format to text-only so that people won't whine at me about not being able to see it in Lynx or on their Palm. 8-) I've got several interviews with this CV (usually accompanied by a covering letter or application form), so it can't be utterly hopeless, but.

Should I:

a) send this CV off, and stop dithering?
b) make a few changes (suggestions welcome!)?
c) rewrite it completely tonight and send it off tomorrow?

[Sorry, not a real poll, because I can't be arsed.]

Comments

[j4.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more of the content, actually... :)

I don't think the effort it would take me to learn LaTeX would be effort well spent, to be honest, given that I can make a CV look smart in Word and most of the people I'm applying to are non-techy so ask for Word format anyway (if I'm sending a CV by email, I mean). But thanks for the tip anyway.

[brrm.livejournal.com]

I send (sent, oops) mine in PDF form if I want to appear less Microsofty (I wrote it in Word). OSX lets me just 'print to PDF', 'fraid I can't remember if OS9 does this (sad that something I once knew backwards is fading in my memory. I miss it). I could convert yours to PDF if you like.
Making everything line up to a vertical line down the page (hopefully this is obvious in my CV) is a handy tip that the Oxford Careers person gave me for making it look spiffier with minimal effort. Also, I hear you can just email them your CV (being an Ox graduate) and they will run their eye over it.

*hugs*