CV formatting

[Mehmeh]

Hi guys,

Little bit of CV advice if you please.

Currently I have a really small bio at the top, then technical skills section, then into professional experience.

Now because I've now had quite a few roles over the years, I try to keep the CV down to 3 pages. BUT I'm afraid I'm not providing enough information on recent jobs.

I lay out each job like:

Nov 08 – Feb 09 CLIENTCO London
Senior Developer

Skills used: C#, ASP.NET 3.5, MS SQL 2005, Visual Studio 2008

 Project A – Created a system to do something cool, that was really useful.
 Project B – Helped put new processes in place. Rar rar rar...

Now I'm thinking due to these 3-4month contracts looking basically like that, maybe I should have a paragraph before the projects to say responsibilities and other things like "project completed on time, etc.."

My longer contracts look fine as I have loads more bullet points and it looks more impressive, but maybe I should have a paragraph infront of those too.

But I dont want to make the CV huge, 5-6 page CV's bore me to hell.

Thank you please.

:-)

[pmeswani]

Hi guys,

Little bit of CV advice if you please.

Currently I have a really small bio at the top, then technical skills section, then into professional experience.

Now because I've now had quite a few roles over the years, I try to keep the CV down to 3 pages. BUT I'm afraid I'm not providing enough information on recent jobs.

I lay out each job like:

Nov 08 – Feb 09 CLIENTCO London
Senior Developer

Skills used: C#, ASP.NET 3.5, MS SQL 2005, Visual Studio 2008

 Project A – Created a system to do something cool, that was really useful.
 Project B – Helped put new processes in place. Rar rar rar...

Now I'm thinking due to these 3-4month contracts looking basically like that, maybe I should have a paragraph before the projects to say responsibilities and other things like "project completed on time, etc.."

My longer contracts look fine as I have loads more bullet points and it looks more impressive, but maybe I should have a paragraph infront of those too.

But I dont want to make the CV huge, 5-6 page CV's bore me to hell.

Thank you please.

:-)

http://www.contractoruk.com/news/00383.html

Tailor your CV for the role, rather than a generic one that tries to fit all roles. If you get asked questions in the interview what you did in the roles you weren't descriptive on, then answer it there... otherwise only state what is relevant.

HTH.

[DaveB]

Be more descriptive on the more recent roles and less on the older ones.
Paragraph + bulletp points on the most recent, especially if it is relavent to the role,. Bullet points only on the oldest ones. Pimps and hiring managers rarely read past the first page anyway and they are just looking for buzzwords that match the job description.

[Peter Loew]

WHS

I have three main versions of my CV that emphasise my experience at delivering different kinds of projects; I also have a master version that is suitable for roles that are more generalised.

Agents have told me 4 pages max but I try to keep it down to three.

[darmstadt]

Got mine down to 8 pages and have had no problems. Due to the fact that I've worked on many different types of hardware and software within projects I need to put that information in. I have a first page with personal information then the second page has a brief description (Profile Summary) of my abilities, technical skills (including how many years) and then I go onto each project, i.e.:

Type of industry (no company names)
Position held and dates in that position (I've held various positions during contracts)
Project details
Software and hardware
Tasks

[Drewster]

Got mine down to 8 pages.......

8 PAGES!!!! Thats called a thesis not a cv!!

[Durbs]

i think 3 pages is still one page too many.

[NiceUpNorth]

8 PAGES!!!! Thats called a thesis not a cv!!

[lightng]

My CV = 1 page.

I just photocopy my butt. When the client sees that the sun really does shine out my ass, I get the gig.

[lightng]

Come on guys. I was expecting a comment like "Your CV is the CV of an ar$ehole". I had a bet with myself that abuse would start within 15 minutes.

Wheres my abuse godammit!