How long is your CV?

[MarillionFan]

Damn.

I knew I'd forgotten to do sommat over the weekend.

I know.

Those bodies of dead hookers don't bury themselves.

[darmstadt]

Mine is written with a Mont Blanc fountain pen using J. Herbin ink (either Bleu Myosotis or Bleu Nuit), in cursive naturally, on a Clairefontaine linen based 24g paper. It does run to a few pages but people do appreciate the personal touch.

[Lockhouse]

I used to use Arial 10. But, I found the cv was going over 3 pages even with 4 bullet pointed sentences for the last 3 jobs.

Changing it to Arial 9 looked too small. By chance I came across Calibri 9 which looked as big as Arial 10 yet returned my cv to 3 pages.

Sorted.

Same as me - redid it over the weekend using Calibri 9 - exactly three pages but no fluff at all. Might go up a font size depending on feedback but early days yet.

[SimonMac]

Problem with fine tuning your CV so it fits perfectly on X number of pages, you forget to take in account the pimip will rip off your details and insert their details which will ruin the look!

[SimonMac]

CV tip!

Everyone has access to email these day's, not everyone uses a computer for this, I found out while in Spain that I couldn't send my CV to a pimp who got in touch blind.

Solution?

Stick it online in something like dropbox and send it as a link to who ever ask's for it, you could be really clever and get a static link from bit.ly which will have analysis about who is downloading it.

[suityou01]

My 6 page monstrosity has got me a telephone interview for a gig in Germany at 10am tomorrow.

[SupremeSpod]

My 6 page monstrosity has got me a telephone interview for a gig in Germany at 10am tomorrow.

:nazi:

[darmstadt]

My 6 page monstrosity has got me a telephone interview for a gig in Germany at 10am tomorrow.

I hope its not the one doing the rounds on my floor at the moment :-)

[Ignis Fatuus]

Mine is written with a Mont Blanc fountain pen using J. Herbin ink (either Bleu Myosotis or Bleu Nuit), in cursive naturally, on a Clairefontaine linen based 24g paper. It does run to a few pages but people do appreciate the personal touch.

Ah yes, the Clairefontaine does have a good tooth.

[TheFaQQer]

CV tip!

Everyone has access to email these day's, not everyone uses a computer for this, I found out while in Spain that I couldn't send my CV to a pimp who got in touch blind.

Solution?

Stick it online in something like dropbox and send it as a link to who ever ask's for it, you could be really clever and get a static link from bit.ly which will have analysis about who is downloading it.

I like the idea of a bit.ly link - CV is already on dropbox, but I never send out a shared link for some reason. Might look into that.