CV again

[j4]

Okay, you're all sick of this by now, but MY JOURNAL, MY WHINGES, okay? (Love me, love my neuroses.)

Updated and enhanced CV here. (It's in Word format, sorry, because I can't format it nicely in plain text and I'm lazy.) Katherine, I haven't turned every negative into a positive, but I've turned it all into neutral-statements-with-positive-sounding-verbs-in ... will that do as a compromise? :-)

I've also added Positions of Responsibility and Other Information -- thanks to emperor for providing grown-up sounding headings. I think those sections of my CV both read a bit crap, though, so again, suggestions welcomed.

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Currently wondering whether to apply for this job with the IWF. I know I could do it, but a) can I convince them that I could do it, and b) do I want to work for the IWF? Not sure.

Update: Yeah, yeah, CV now there with correctly-typed name, ph34r my l337 computing skillz. :-}

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Re: 404

[j4.livejournal.com]

"I have considerable skills in computing, which unfortunately do not extend to TYPING BLOODY FILENAMES CORRECTLY."

*d'oh*

Should be fixed now.

Re: 404

[abi]

So it is. You might want to take into account my first thought on opening it, which was "bloody hell, 4 pages". This is mainly because all the CV-writing guides I've read ever EVER have drilled it into my head that CVs should be 2 sides of A4 max, and many employers only read the first one so that should have all the important stuff on (I suspect the latter may be a shameless lie). As the proud owner of a CV myself I can testify that it's very hard to do, and it took a lot of margin-moving, font-resizing and excess-space-removing to make mine conform to the two-page standard.

Anyway, I'd certainly recommend reducing yours to 3 pages, since it doesn't go onto the fourth that much (I did it easily by cutting some of the double line spaces to single). Whether you want to cut down further is up to you since it'll almost certainly mean losing some of the text, and I'd guess that more detail is good for temping places where variety of experience/skills are assets.

Another CV-writing tip I picked up somewhere is to shove Education down the list; put it below Work Experience, because it's less recent than the jobs and thus fits with the general reverse chronological order of a CV. Unless you're just out of school/uni and have never had a Proper Job, your education tends not to be the first thing an employer wants to look at.

Um, think that's all that stood out.

Re: 404

[j4.livejournal.com]

Length -- yeah, I know, that's one reason why I didn't want to put more info in, but now I have done (because everybody said to) and now it's too long. :-( See comments in response to jiggery_pokery re formatting.

Another CV-writing tip I picked up somewhere is to shove Education down the list; put it below Work Experience, because it's less recent than the jobs and thus fits with the general reverse chronological order of a CV.

Hmmm. The thing is, not all my work experience is more recent than my education, and I sort of think of qualifications as Things I Have (like name/address/etc.) rather than Things I've Done. If you see what I mean. (Okay, that's a post-hoc rationalisation of a general feeling that That's Where It Belongs, but I think it's roughly why I think it belong there, IYSWIM.)

And then where does voluntary work come? I think it just risks getting very messy if I shuffle it around too much. :-/

Confused now. Thank you for advice though.