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So what should your CV/resumé look like?

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Alex Eisenhut:
I suppose there are people on both sides here, hiring and seeking? I would like some opinions.

What do you think of these:

https://resumegenius.com/resume-templates

My CV has always been just a series of paragraphs with minimal formatting. I have also never put a photo of me on one, this is a European thing I think.

Do CVs really need to be graphical and typography masterpieces?

tggzzz:
The purpose of a covering letter is to get an HRdroid to read your CV and pass it to the hiring manager.
The purpose of a CV is to get the hiring manager to give you an interview.
So make it easy to pass through those stages.

Apart from the usual guff, have a keywords section for the automated filters.

Have a chronological career history sections, with each company having a very brief synopsis of why you joined each company.

Have a list of projects and achievements, a couple of paragraphs for each, with trailing keywords. These should be tantalising rather than have full information. Select the ones that are relevant for the job application, discard others.

Ignore photos, coloured paper, maximum two pages,and anything else that gets in the way of getting an Interview.

At most two standard fonts, one for heading, one for bodies.

Hobbies should either be relevant or interesting enough for questions to be asked.

Remove adjectives, use bullet points.

Alex Eisenhut:
Heh, so I pretty much have to change nothing... Thanks!

ejeffrey:
They don't need to be typographical masterpieces but they should not be a wall of text.  Some formatting is helpful so that I can quickly parse it to see if your experience is a fit.

I want to see a brief description of *your specific* responsibilities and accomplishments at your previous positions and a brief list of skills (the latter is mostly to make it through the recruiter's filter).  Include leadership and design experience of course, but saying you were  "part of a team that did X" doesn't tell me anything about what you can do.

Don't put anything on it you aren't prepared to talk about in your interview.  Nothing gets you to fail an interview with me faster than saying you are proficient in 7 programming languages, but being unable to e.g. write a function to sum the items in an array in any of them.  Likewise, if you say you are experienced with SPI/UART/I2C interfaces you should be able to explain the differences between them.  You don't need to be an expert, but if you can't talk intelligently about X, don't say X on your resume.  If you hacked something together for a school project a decade ago but haven't used it since, don't list that as a skill on your resume.

Ice-Tea:

--- Quote from: Alex Eisenhut on November 25, 2020, 06:40:40 pm ---I have also never put a photo of me on one, this is a European thing I think.

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Haven't ever seen a CV with photo to be honnest... Even though one could argue Linkedin is just that.

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