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

[jvvw.livejournal.com]

One piece of advice that a (very good) careers advisor in Oxford gave me about CVs was to use horizontal lines between sections and to use tables in Word. I think it made my CV look much much neater (I'm happy to send you or Chris a copy of my CV from when I was applying for jobs earlier this year if you want to actually see!).

I remember it took me quite a lot of effort not to put in lots of personal stuff that I was proud of or which was important to me but wouldn't help get me an interview or job. Getting it down to two pages was quite hard work :-)

[j4.livejournal.com]

to use horizontal lines between sections and to use tables in Word

Urghh. There are some things I won't do, even to get a job.

[jvvw.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if you're objecting on aesthetic grounds (I mean invisible tables of course) or having to delve into horrible things in Word (in which case I'd point out that I'm hopeless with Word and I don't remember it taking me very long).

[j4.livejournal.com]

I meant aesthetic grounds, really, but (more importantly) portability grounds. Do I mean portability? Brane is tired. Being able to turn it painlessly from a Mac Word doc into a PC one, is what I mean. I find that any formatting more complicated than different fonts risks breaking horribly when you turn docs from one type of Word into another. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong. :-/

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to send you or Chris a copy of my CV from when I was applying for jobs earlier this year if you want to actually see!

Yes please! Usual address as per my profile (better still, minus the -lj part before the @).