CV format

[conned tractor]

If you are the wrong side of 35, lose any reference to age.

Some on here recently suggested leaving out your home address but I'm not so sure.

I am just shy of that age so may leave it on.

Although I would have assumed the older gent to be more experienced than me.

Thanks anyhow Clippy, nice robin by the way.

[Pogle]

If you are the wrong side of 35, lose any reference to age.

Some on here recently suggested leaving out your home address but I'm not so sure.

I've just removed my home address from my CV as I work anywhere in the UK and don't think Its relevant.
I have also removed my qualifications up to my BSc (I have a HND in textile design and a C&G in Professional photography - but its not really all that relevant to building data warehouses!) I have a sentence on my 'interests' - just to add a human dimension. I don't have my age, driving licence points or star sign on there, as it's immaterial.

Anything that is not related to what I can do and what I have done work wise - is at the end.

Heading - name + phone number
Bullet points on what I have to offer
Previous contracts
Permie jobs
education
short Bit about me

[RichardCranium]

Some on here recently suggested leaving out your home address but I'm not so sure.

If you are posting the CV on Monster, yeah, take it off. And use a special email address just for Monster too, to capture the spam it generates.

If you are sending it to an agent, all your contact details will be stripped out before it goes to a client. Often even your name and all personal details.

Some people worry about posting their address online; I certainly used to back in the 1990s. But now everyone has a PC and iPod and 60" telly and DVD player in their home, so what difference does it make?

[conned tractor]

I've just removed my home address from my CV as I work anywhere in the UK and don't think Its relevant.
I have also removed my qualifications up to my BSc (I have a HND in textile design and a C&G in Professional photography - but its not really all that relevant to building data warehouses!) I have a sentence on my 'interests' - just to add a human dimension. I don't have my age, driving licence points or star sign on there, as it's immaterial.

Anything that is not related to what I can do and what I have done work wise - is at the end.

Heading - name + phone number
Bullet points on what I have to offer
Previous contracts
Permie jobs
education
short Bit about me

Thanks for the reply Pogle.

[threaded]

Mine is fantastically long by the sounds of it.

Cover pages about why I want the job, one in English, quite different content for one in Danish (with some poetry wot I writ. They like cutesy stuff like that here). Then about 8 pages of previous job, a couple of pages on qualifications, a page on interests, and a page of other details. Then something up to 16 pages of scans of the qualifications/certificates that I think are relevant to the task advertised. And finally a full page picture of myself after completing the PBP cycle race, skin tight lycra... Guaranteed to get the receiving HR bird to pull me in for an ogle.

[conned tractor]

Mine is fantastically long by the sounds of it.

Cover pages about why I want the job, one in English, quite different content for one in Danish (with some poetry wot I writ. They like cutesy stuff like that here). Then about 8 pages of previous job, a couple of pages on qualifications, a page on interests, and a page of other details. Then something up to 16 pages of scans of the qualifications/certificates that I think are relevant to the task advertised. And finally a full page picture of myself after completing the PBP cycle race, skin tight lycra... Guaranteed to get the receiving HR bird to pull me in for an ogle.

Does ogle mean slap in Danish?

[conned tractor]

Guess what?

Submitted CV this afternoon taking heed of some of the suggestions, and got a phone call this afternoon for submission for a role. Lowest rate ever (only by £2/hr), but working from home.

Will see where it goes. Not getting hopes up to much just yet, but agent did sound keen and no fishing. (BUT RC TOLD ME NOT TO TRUST THEM).

[SueEllen]

If you are posting the CV on Monster, yeah, take it off. And use a special email address just for Monster too, to capture the spam it generates.

If you are sending it to an agent, all your contact details will be stripped out before it goes to a client. Often even your name and all personal details.

Some people worry about posting their address online; I certainly used to back in the 1990s. But now everyone has a PC and iPod and 60" telly and DVD player in their home, so what difference does it make?

ID theft - That's why you have to remove your personal details like age and shouldn't put your full name down.

I've have had discussions with friends on how easy it is to fake being someone else. The easiest way is to go to a cemetery and choose someone who is dead but would be about your age. Then from their death certificate obtain their birth certificate and away you go.

The hardest way is to fake being a living person as you either have to break into their house and steal things, or trick them into giving you enough detail i.e. fake job ad.

[threaded]

ID theft - That's why you have to remove your personal details like age and shouldn't put your full name down.

I've have had discussions with friends on how easy it is to fake being someone else. The easiest way is to go to a cemetery and choose someone who is dead but would be about your age. Then from their death certificate obtain their birth certificate and away you go.

The hardest way is to fake being a living person as you either have to break into their house and steal things, or trick them into giving you enough detail i.e. fake job ad.

Someone took a copy of my CV put their own details on it and got themselves into SHAPE.

Which reminds me about some of the nonsense spouted in other threads about security clearances...

[Tingles]

Name
Address
DOB
Telephone number
Bank details (in case they need to setup my payments)
Car licence number & photo copy
Passport number & photo copy
Attach copy of utility bill to confirm address.
Attach photo
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Hobbies & Interests in date order

Details of Non-academic training courses

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Details of projects that went wrong (to show I'm human)

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Employment history including school holiday jobs (Try to be as detailed as possible)

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References from the last 6 clients / employers

Full details of any interviews you've ever had


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Minimum you'll work for.

Detailing how desperate to get a contract

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Can't think of anything else...