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Leave them on but 'file' under year and not month/year.
That should be make things clearer when dealing with the agent and can be expanded upon when with the interviewer who should better understand concurrent contracts.
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Originally posted by Brussels Slumdog View PostIf you put everything on your CV you may end up with too many pages
Only put down marketable skills
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If you put everything on your CV you may end up with too many pages
Only put down marketable skills
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There's nothing wrong with leaving stuff off your CV - there are a number of projects that don't feature on mine, just because they aren't that important to me and what I do now.
Some time back, I was a regarded expert in a niche field (wrote part of the product for Oracle), but found it hard to get work in that field. A friend of mine suggested that it might be because the people that were already there might be worried that an expert would arrive and show them up. I removed the stuff from the CV, but mentioned it casually in passing at interview. That way (or so my theory was), it looked more like "I'm so good, I don't even need to mention it on my CV that I wrote the software you are using..."
Include what you want to include, and leave off the bits that you don't.
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I don't see a problem with overlapping dates. I have a couple of them on the CV and if ever asked why, the answer is simple and honest enough- Two concurrent contracts. I have never been asked though.
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I would.
Though it agents who are more likely to be confused then direct clients so I would tend to write more than one CV.
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Leaving stuff OFF a CV?
The way I tend to work is more akin to a freelancer at times... working on multiple contracts at the same time, sometimes with no fixed end date (when it's finished), etc. Listing everything on a CV will look odd I expect.
Is it dodgy to try and get a more straightforward chronological account by leaving off the overlapping work which is least relevant to contracts applied for? e.g if I want a C++ project and I worked 6 on both Java/C++ projects side-by-side the last 6 months, just list the C++ one?
I'm not aware you are in the wrong for NOT showing some work you did on a CV, rather than claiming stuff you never did, but is this true? Any CV like this will be 100% true after all. And it's not removing bad contracts either, simply trying to avoid confusing the agent/client.Tags: None
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