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

[kaet.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd employ you!

I'm afraid I'm not very good with these things. I don't know the first thing about HR and my pedantary skills are but week. But though, for these reasons and many, many others, I'll probably never be in a position to do so, it seems to me from your CV like you'd be a useful person to have around, particularly at a Uni. All your work has been academic/learning related, and lots has been text related, and you can do html (might be worth mentioning this, I can't remember if you do), and perl; useful person to have about. They might want you, so that if for example, in some floaty humanities department wanted to put some battered old documents or students' theses on the webternet, you could do the processing, and generate indexing Dublin-Core stylee. It's more important, in situations like that, that you know which side your circumflexes are buttered than the exact purpose of </funky>, but you do need to have proved yourself capable of technical competence, which you have, even to a cynical employer, both at QueStrop and with your personal webpages and stuff.