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

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I wonder that Oxford (and specifically ox.*)'s cultural anti-Microsoft bias has led us into ethically/generically desirable but culturally/financially disadvantageous habits. For instance, I maintain my CV in Word but am always a little bit reluctant to send it off when people don't explicitly say "in Word format" on the grounds that sending in Word when people don't like Word would appear to be a terrible faux pas. Yet you know as well as I do how many people have Word and how much, very broadly, people actually like the package.

b) I would consider rewriting the Employment and Work Experience section so that the important entries had a load of bullet points, each with an eye-catching action verb. This probably means I've been hanging around Careers Services too long. I'll also ditto the "skills section" comments other people have been making: even if the skills aren't terribly relevant (and, these days, Office skills almost always are) then you can always say "I have demonstrated an ability to pick up new skills rapidly" and/or "I have demonstrated a commitment to picking up new skills".

Mind you, I'm one to talk on this front in my situation. :-/ A large part of the reason why I'm putting off finishing my 250 hours of paid work is that when I finish the contract I can no longer put "April 2003 to date" for "current employment" on my CV. Not good.