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. :-}

Comments

[bjh21.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yes. That's a substantial improvement.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Except now everybody agrees it's far too long, and I can't make it any shorter without just taking stuff out, and I don't know what to take out, so now I've got one CV that I know is crap, and one that I can't use because nobody will bother reading past the first page. :-( :-(

[bjh21.livejournal.com]

Hmm. The length didn't bother me, but then the only time I've read CVs in anger it was after shortlisting, so I only had six to look at and more detail was generally good (I think most of them were longer than two pages, incidentally). I suppose the poor fool who has to look at 600 of them would have a different view. I notice, though, that the University Careers Service's CV guidance (http://www.careers.cam.ac.uk/students/work/CVintro.asp) doesn't say anything much about length.

Actually, your second one does have the nice feature that the first page has most of the important stuff on it, so anyone who doesn't bother reading past the first page will end up with a reasonable impression of whether you're likely to be of any use.