Photo on your CV?

[chopper]

Along time ago I did my CV on a Wang and duly punted it out. I got zero traction.

"Can I see your CV please?"
"Sure, let me just get my Wang out"

I'm not sure that would be particularly advantageous.

[MrMarkyMark]

"Can I see your CV please?"
"Sure, let me just get my Wang out"

I'm not sure that would be particularly advantageous.

Unless you were responding to an ad for the lead role in a Porn film

[seanraaron]

I've been remiss in updating my LinkedIn profile, but I've made a stab at it. Hard to say how much detail should go in there. I've also read the article on CVs in this site's "First Timers" section and it suggests paring things down to two pages. How terse is too terse?

[WTFH]

Client name, dates worked there and 2-3 lines per client. If you've only worked at 2 clients, then maybe up to 5 lines per client.


Think about the ClientCo who are reading through 100s of CVs. They want to be able to see a summary of what you have done, not your daily workload.

[LondonManc]

Hello, we've been reviewing your free trial of match.com and have a suggestion for your profile. Remove the photo. HTHBIDI

[Bee]

Which is a great idea isn't it.

No

[Cirrus]

Ah - The Old Days

"Sure, let me just get my Wang out"

The job I got off the Wang CV was permanent. I was called to see a head hunter. These were people who not only slightly knew what you were talking about; they were typically ex-senior managers or directors of big companies.

You met them in opulent offices and had interesting conversations.

For this one I had to go to somewhere near Baker Street. I caught the train with plenty of time to walk from Kings Cross. Unfortunately a goods trained derailed at Hitchin and delayed me for about an hour and a half. By the time I got to London I was already late but sadly had brought next to no cash (in the days when cards were in their infancy). I had to jump into a taxi and say "I want to go to Baker Street. Keep driving until you hit £2.97" (or whatever I'd got in my pocket). He duly stopped at the appropriate point and I ran the rest of the way.

They paid me to fly to Glasgow and duly offerred me a choice of three jobs.

I chose the wrong one. Obviously

[seanraaron]

Client name, dates worked there and 2-3 lines per client. If you've only worked at 2 clients, then maybe up to 5 lines per client.


Think about the ClientCo who are reading through 100s of CVs. They want to be able to see a summary of what you have done, not your daily workload.

Okay, so for a permanent gig, just the highlights. I definitely need to do something with nearly 20 years in the industry or it's going to be a novella, though I've only had a couple of jobs that lasted less than a year. I've only kept my US jobs on to "prove" the tenure.

Seems like a good exercise and will certainly make for a more interesting read. What do you suggest re: dates/duration? There seems to be a couple schools of thought on this one for what I've seen in other threads.

[WTFH]

Okay, so for a permanent gig, just the highlights. I definitely need to do something with nearly 20 years in the industry or it's going to be a novella, though I've only had a couple of jobs that lasted less than a year. I've only kept my US jobs on to "prove" the tenure.

Seems like a good exercise and will certainly make for a more interesting read. What do you suggest re: dates/duration? There seems to be a couple schools of thought on this one for what I've seen in other threads.

Anything more than 10 years ago is pretty irrelevant. If the company was a household name, then name them with 1 line about the job, and just put the year in.
For your more recent work, cut out all the guff and just put the key point of each role. Yes 1 key point.


And don't be like the person who sent me his CV to review and it was 14 pages long. I told him to cut it down to 2, so he did. But then included a 17 page cover letter.


No cover letter.
An introductory paragraph about you - 5 or 6 lines. The next 1.5 pages is a potted history of your work and the bottom of page 2 is personal info - hobbies/interests that are NOT related to your work. e.g. if you are a rocket scientist and applying for a job at the JPL, don't list your hobbies as building rockets at home and running the world's biggest rocket science forum.

[MrMarkyMark]

It should also be noted that some industries like different styles of CV's.

In IB, for example, they like to see a detailed CV, make it too simple and it will, often, be rejected.
Other industries they like to see a summary.

Part of the "fun" is working it all out