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

[bjh21.livejournal.com]

For feeding to a temp agency it looks fine. There are a few things that strike me about it, though (as someone who's never had a useful CV in his life -- take my comments with appropriate amounts of salt):

• You seem to be uncertain whether you prefer four-digit years and named months or two-digit years and numbered months. This makes matching up the "education" and "work" sections hard.
• I'd be inclined to go for "voluntary work" rather than "unpaid work experience" for the choir job.
• Were some of the jobs overlapping with your degree part-time? I'd be inclined to indicate that somehow in the heading for the relevant jobs.
• You seem to be uncertain whether to describe jobs in full sentences or not. This makes it read a bit oddly.
• Listing all your GCSEs and the Ladybird work experience feels slightly school-leaverish to me, but I'm no expert.
• Perhaps the heading for each job should include the job title or similar (make it up if necessary).
• Given the number of years ProQuest covers, I'd expect slightly more words. There are at least some buzzwords missing -- SGML, MARC, and Unix come to mind, and that's just from your news postings.
• "Being responsible for" in the ProQuest blurb seems superfluous.