CV length

[DBA_bloke]

Mainly through laziness I just keep adding new jobs into the front of my CV and haven't chopped down the older stuff for years. Its now 7 pages...

Have a look at this, though.

[Lucy]

hahaah

Height, Weight etc Hobbies or a photograph, I love it when ppl put 'worm breeding etc...

[daviejones]

I disagree with the max 2 pages. 2 pages is fine for some roles and would go to 3 for senior management roles. I believe 4 pages is accepted fror executive positions.

[DBA_bloke]

I disagree with the max 2 pages. 2 pages is fine for some roles and would go to 3 for senior management roles. I believe 4 pages is accepted fror executive positions.

Fair enough. I'd expect a 4-page bod to be capable of transmuting lead into gold, though.

[daviejones]

Fair enough. I'd expect a 4-page bod to be capable of transmuting lead into gold, though.

Wrong, he would be a director type, only just capable of walking upright!!!

[rootsnall]

I disagree with the max 2 pages. 2 pages is fine for some roles and would go to 3 for senior management roles. I believe 4 pages is accepted fror executive positions.

I'm in trouble its 8 pages ! I'm certainly not 'executive' and the 8 pager has a good hit rate. Its size may put some off but if you are a client looking for someone with a lot of techie experience then I doubt you'd bin a big CV that is easy to skim over. Its got a summary page and then contains 4 or 5 contracts per page with key skills and buzz words for each and then a few sentences of detail. The clients want to see big Co's and consultancies on your CV, the more the merrier I reckon. It'll get a revamp when I'm next struggling to find work.

[daviejones]

I'm in trouble its 8 pages ! I'm certainly not 'executive' and the 8 pager has a good hit rate. Its size may put some off but if you are a client looking for someone with a lot of techie experience then I doubt you'd bin a big CV that is easy to skim over. Its got a summary page and then contains 4 or 5 contracts per page with key skills and buzz words for each and then a few sentences of detail. The clients want to see big Co's and consultancies on your CV, the more the merrier I reckon. It'll get a revamp when I'm next struggling to find work.

When I am interviewing for a role there is usually a good response so I lay all of the CVs on the table in front of me and then identify the ones that just look badly formatted, too long, have pics on etc. They go in the bin. Then I skim over and look for spelling mistakes and bad grammar etc. They also go in the bin. This usually leaves me with about 4-5. These I then interview.

Not saying my approach is right, but it is a common approach.

[rootsnall]

When I am interviewing for a role there is usually a good response so I lay all of the CVs on the table in front of me and then identify the ones that just look badly formatted, too long, have pics on etc. They go in the bin. Then I skim over and look for spelling mistakes and bad grammar etc. They also go in the bin. This usually leaves me with about 4-5. These I then interview.

Not saying my approach is right, but it is a common approach.

So you don't look at their experience !? Atleast they'll be good at spelling.

[daviejones]

So you don't look at their experience !? Atleast they'll be good at spelling.

When you get a large number of CVs through, you have to have some criteria or you would be reading every CV and that can be very time consuming. You have to trust that a competent, adult IT professional will be able to spell and a CV that has poor spelling shows an interesting insight into a person.

[DBA_bloke]

I have seen CVs discarded, owing to being too long. And 8 pages is well on the way to being a fecking novel.