On your CV do you put the exact dates or just the months that you worked on a site ?

[NotAllThere]

Months or even just the year. I have moved away from a typical CV style. It’ none of their F & N & G business when you go on holiday or if you wanted to work or do your own thing.

The first page of my “CV” is more like an advert. All the best info goes on the front page and not in chronological order. I had some great contract but also some dross.

Chronological order stuff goes on page two.
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Year/Month, but after reading this, I'll switch to year.

[Cyberman]

Months or even just the year. I have moved away from a typical CV style. It’ none of their F & N & G business when you go on holiday or if you wanted to work or do your own thing.

The first page of my “CV” is more like an advert. All the best info goes on the front page and not in chronological order. I had some great contract but also some dross.

Chronological order stuff goes on page two.

No information about age, marital status, hobbies etc. (You don’t get that info when you ask for a plumber do you?)

Ignorant clients should learn the difference between permanent staff, temporary, agency and contractors.

Well put !!

[miffy]

Months or even just the year. I have moved away from a typical CV style. It’ none of their F & N & G business when you go on holiday or if you wanted to work or do your own thing.

The first page of my “CV” is more like an advert. All the best info goes on the front page and not in chronological order. I had some great contract but also some dross.

Chronological order stuff goes on page two.

No information about age, marital status, hobbies etc. (You don’t get that info when you ask for a plumber do you?)

Ignorant clients should learn the difference between permanent staff, temporary, agency and contractors.

Spot on!

We all need to adopt that format now!

[expat]

I used to put month/year & Client name in reverse chronological order, i.e. classic CV. I have now changed to Year & industry. Certainly no personal information like marital status. Nor age (I am helping clients to avoid the potentially actionable trap of discriminating by age

Nor where I live, just where I will work.

It's still a CV: for most of us, if we abandon CV completely and go for "brochure", we'll just get asked for a copy of our CV in order to proceed. Educate them if you like, my main aim is getting work.

[NickFitz]

Month/year for recent stuff, year only for the older stuff.

I stay within two pages, reverse chronological order, and the older stuff gets smaller type and a one-line description. I'm pretty sure most potential clients aren't particularly interested in how many assembly languages I know.

Actually, I don't think any of them read beyond the last couple of gigs. At virtually every client I've at some point mentioned something from when I was a games programmer in the Eighties, and the person who interviewed me has said "Wow, you were a games programmer?" Given that my CV says "1986 -1990 Games Programmer"...

[BrilloPad]

Month/Year.

[BolshieBastard]

From \ to month, year and whether included extensions.

[Bob Dalek]

Year/Month/Day/Hour/Second & fag & bog breaks.

[DodgyAgent]

Months or even just the year. I have moved away from a typical CV style. It’ none of their F & N & G business when you go on holiday or if you wanted to work or do your own thing.

The first page of my “CV” is more like an advert. All the best info goes on the front page and not in chronological order. I had some great contract but also some dross.

Chronological order stuff goes on page two.

No information about age, marital status, hobbies etc. (You don’t get that info when you ask for a plumber do you?)

Ignorant clients should learn the difference between permanent staff, temporary, agency and contractors.

Spoken like a real idiot who so thoroughly understands the concept of customer/provider

[Xenophon]

Year/Month/Day/Hour/Second

Sounds like MarillionFan...