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    #21
    Originally posted by DBA_bloke View Post
    I have seen CVs discarded, owing to being too long. And 8 pages is well on the way to being a fecking novel.
    Yep. Very very few recruiters will ever get passed the first page...
    "If you can read this, thank a teacher....and since it's in English, thank a soldier"

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      #22
      Originally posted by DBA_bloke View Post
      I have seen CVs discarded, owing to being too long. And 8 pages is well on the way to being a fecking novel.
      I agree, like I say its laziness and the use of cut, paste and modify that has made it so long rather than my love of the english language.

      I had a spell vetting CVs for a big Co and came up with a new arbitray method each day, preferably as unfair as possible.

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        #23
        Originally posted by rootsnall View Post
        I agree, like I say its laziness and the use of cut, paste and modify that has made it so long rather than my love of the english language.

        I had a spell vetting CVs for a big Co and came up with a new arbitray method each day, preferably as unfair as possible.
        arbitray (not one that involved spelling then?)
        "If you can read this, thank a teacher....and since it's in English, thank a soldier"

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          #24
          Originally posted by daviejones View Post
          arbitray (not one that involved spelling then?)
          You missed your own mistake at the top of the page !

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            #25
            Originally posted by rootsnall View Post
            You missed your own mistake at the top of the page !
            Probably, I am a very lazy typist on here.....which one was it?
            "If you can read this, thank a teacher....and since it's in English, thank a soldier"

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              #26
              Originally posted by daviejones View Post
              Probably, I am a very lazy typist on here.....which one was it?
              Originally posted by daviejones View Post
              Yep. Very very few recruiters will ever get passed the first page...
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                #27
                Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
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                More of a wrong word or a word in the wrong context than a spelling mistake if you want to be pedantic though....
                "If you can read this, thank a teacher....and since it's in English, thank a soldier"

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                  #28
                  Originally posted by daviejones View Post
                  More of a wrong word or a word in the wrong context than a spelling mistake if you want to be pedantic though....
                  More of a wrong word, or a word in the wrong context, than a spelling mistake, if you want to be pedantic, though....

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by DBA_bloke View Post
                    More of a wrong word, or a word in the wrong context, than a spelling mistake, if you want to be pedantic, though....
                    Very good, you copied it out...wicked.
                    "If you can read this, thank a teacher....and since it's in English, thank a soldier"

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