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Re: CV/resume review, please
ukgeoff
"Address, Phone number(s), Driving licence status, (Non-)Smoker."
- Personal details are on the print out - as you say, I don't fancy showing them online! I haven't said, however, that I can't drive; I do have a provisional and hope to take my test at Easter, but what should I write?
"Place your awards after your actual educational qualifications they mean less to the employer."
- Okay these have been flipped! Do you think they should go after my employment section?
"Place your work/projects in most recent first order."
- This has been changed. I was hoping to put my Summer job first as it's the most important, but I guess that's unescapable!
"...oracle database... Oracle should have an uppercase 'o' as it's a company name...and have sang... should I think be ...and have sung... or ...and I sang..."
- Thanks for these, I'll get them sorted (BGarner pointed out the 'sang' to me earlier, and I didn't get the chance to change it after I posted this up!)
moojoo
"I am still working on mine as well but I would go as simple as possible for this. Try to leave out personal stuff and just get the meat of what you want to project to potential employers. Mine is dull, boring and sucks which is good for stuff like this."
- How do you propose I go about achieving this one? At one time I deleted my 'hobbies and interests section'; then a potential employer came in and spoke about what he looked for on a CV - and he said that 'hobbies and interests' was the first place he went to. After the talk, I went and put it straight back in! I think there's probably some unneccessary fluff still, but I don't know where!
Some other questions for you all:
This year I'm doing paid work with younger years/postgrad students, 5 hours a week, helping them with their practical coding classes. Should this go in my employment section or hobbies and interests?
Also, I added in a bit about webforumz moderating, and enjoying working with websites; d'you think it's suitable to put this in my hobbies & interests? Additionally, I wanted to add that I'm quite passionate about standards and accessibility, is this the place to add it?
Thanks very much guys,
Snow
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