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

[DimPrawn]

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.

WHS + don't attach a photo.

[stackpole]

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.

It's daft equating IT contracting with plumbing.

A plumber is usually in and out in an hour or two and nobody cares what he is like. But in most cases an IT contractor has to get on with a client's practices, processes and staff over a period of months.

You might think clients are ignorant, but they are the ones who throw CVs into the bin.

[DimPrawn]

It's daft equating IT contracting with plumbing.

A plumber is usually in and out in an hour or two and nobody cares what he is like. But in most cases an IT contractor has to get on with a client's practices, processes and staff over a period of months.

You might think clients are ignorant, but they are the ones who throw CVs into the bin.

Any client that wants to know an IT contractor's hobbies, his certificates in swimming, what O-Levels he got and whether he is divorced or separated is not any client I'm interested in contracting at. I leave those perma-temp jobs to the IR35 fodder.