Best way to refer to yourself in a CV

[singhr]

Refering to first person and third person will indicate multiple personality disorder

why do you think I chose this avitar?

[VectraMan]

I try to use the iambic pentameter.

[bogeyman]

There's always the 'Royal We' option.

e.g. as employed by M. Thatcher: -

"we are a grandmother"

[TinTrump]

Refering to first person and third person will indicate multiple personality disorder

Yeah, be consistent whichever route you choose. I take bogeyman's point but a company I took VR from employed Crapita to help prepare my CV and they took the same 3rd person line as BP. I've stuck to that.

[bogeyman]

Yeah, be consistent whichever route you choose. I take bogeyman's point but a company I took VR from employed Crapita to help prepare my CV and they took the same 3rd person line as BP. I've stuck to that.

3rd person is functional but impersonal. IMO a CV should make you come across as a person, not a 'service'.

Might be ok for low-grade jobs but if it's a significant position, it's the person that counts.

[VectraMan]

3rd person is functional but impersonal. IMO a CV should make you come across as a person, not a 'service'.

Might be ok for low-grade jobs but if it's a significant position, it's the person that counts.

I disagree. The impression I'd get reading a c.v. in the first person would either be of somebody a bit immature and inexperienced, or at the opposite end of the scale, somebody who is very self-centred.

It should be third person, as if you're reading a reference or review of the person. IMO.

[Prickles]

I use

'The party of the first part'

Party, party, par

Oh. I see.

Sorry.

[bogeyman]

I disagree. The impression I'd get reading a c.v. in the first person would either be of somebody a bit immature and inexperienced, or at the opposite end of the scale, somebody who is very self-centred.

It should be third person, as if you're reading a reference or review of the person. IMO.

I disagree. If you've ever read any CVs of top chaps (senior execs etc.) then they are invariably written in the first person - but well written - i.e. it doesn't read like: "I did this then I did that".

Third person comes across as a mere functionary. It is only acceptable if the CV was prepared and offered by a third party.

[threaded]

I try to use the iambic pentameter.

I used to do that, but what with the coming of globalization, I now use a number of metrical variations strategically, for example often I will use inversion to highlight the key verb in a sentence.

Notice how the phrasal structure increased in length as the sentence progressed, this induces a desire to meet me personally.

Whereas that sentence, with it's rhetorical question, produced a feeling of resolution and thereby no 'need'.

threaded in "spending too much time doing textual analysis on Agatha Christie novels" mode

[bogeyman]

Notice how the phrasal structure increased in length as the sentence progressed, this induces a desire to meet me personally.

I can see why you're such a hit with the ladies, old boy.