10 things NOT to do on your CV

Your CV is a marketing tool that needs to tát stand out. This document will be the first impression the recruiter or employer has of you. Large corporations, as well as smaller organisations, are using an applicant tracking system (ATS) to tát screen candidates’ CVs. To get through to tát the next stage of the recruitment process, your CV needs to tát be tailored to tát the role and employer which can be done by focusing on the experience, qualifications and skills sections.

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This đoạn phim by Andrew Fennell, founder of CV writing advice website StandOut CV, will identify 8 common CV mistakes that you might be making that are causing your CV to tát be overlooked, and will give you advice on how to tát fix them. Or keep reading to tát find out what ‘CV clangers’ to tát avoid that will help keep your CV IN the in-tray and OUT of the bin:

It is important to tát be realistic when searching and applying for jobs. Therefore, you should invest time in reading beyond the job advert. Read the job mô tả tìm kiếm carefully and consider what you find interesting, have experience in, and could find a challenge. Familiarise yourself with the person specification to tát identify what essential and desirable criteria you meet. Are you under or over-qualified? How does this job relate to tát what you have done previously? How can you demonstrate to tát an employer that you are the right candidate? Research shows that women are more likely to tát apply for positions if they meet 100% of the criteria, whilst men will apply if they meet 60% of the criteria. Potential factors here include confidence, self-doubt, age, years of experience, fear of rejection.

There will be some positions that need specific qualifications and / experience e.g. a doctor, CEO, a solicitor and an accountant. However, if you are looking for a new challenge and see a role that matches what you are looking for it could be worth applying. You need to tát demonstrate on your CV with confidence, that you have the transferable skills, a genuine interest in and potential to tát vì thế the job and a willingness to tát learn.

So here they are, 10 things not to tát vì thế on your CV:

1. Providing irrelevant personal information

The personal details you are expected to tát include on your CV will vary in different countries. It is important to tát consider what information you are sharing with employers. In the UK, avoid a CV with a photograph, date of birth, nationality and marital status. Similarly, if you have social truyền thông media accounts on Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook for personal use, you vì thế not need to tát share these. This is another opportunity to tát make a positive impression.

Think about the position you are applying for and how your interests and achievements relate to tát it. An interest in the exhibitions would be useful to tát mention if you want to tát work in the arts sector; community engagement activities would be suitable if you want to tát work in the charity sector; involvement in sport activities would be advantageous if you want a career in the sports sector. You can highlight other activities that demonstrate transferable skills and your values.

2. Burying important information

Your CV will have little time to tát impress. The recruiter will look at your CV and think ‘Why should I interview this person? What will they bring to tát the organisation?’

Make relevant information stand out on your CV. This could be through some information in bold and persuasive language i.e. action words and achievements.

3. Spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors

Always double-check the spelling on your CV. Ensure you are writing in the correct tense and if you are using the third person, stick to tát it throughout the document. Avoid Americanisms and use the spell-check. If you struggle to tát spot mistakes, ask a careers professional, mentor or friend to tát look over your CV or use spell-checking software lượt thích Grammarly.

4. Unexplained gaps in employment

Having unexplained gaps in your employment history raises questions. It makes recruiters nervous. If you are lucky, they will briefly wonder what you were doing during that mystery period as your CV is folded into a paper aeroplane and whizzed towards the trash can.

5. Lying or misleading information

Recruiters can spot information that does not stack up. For example, they are always on the lookout for inflated:

Qualifications
Salaries
Job titles
Achievements

Employers are conducting increasingly vigorous background checks on candidates. This can range from conducting a Google tìm kiếm on you to tát employing a specialist candidate checking service. Something that you think is just ‘bending the truth’ could really trip you up.

6. Adding references to tát your CV

You may be thinking, “What? Why not? References in a CV are surely standard practice?” References are generally requested further along in the recruitment process, so sánh there’s really no benefit to tát adding them to tát your CV, and they just take up value space. And according to tát StandOut CV, “the benefits of leaving your references out of your CV, far outweigh the benefits of including them.”

7. A long, waffly CV

Keep your CV concise and to tát the point. It should be no more than thở 2 pages of A4 unless you are applying for an academic / research post.

Focus on your recent and most relevant experience and achievements. The employer wants to tát read a tailored CV focused on transferable experience, skills and achievements. Think about what you have demonstrated in different roles that the employer would be interested in.

This rule applies to tát qualifications too. If you studied a subject many eons ago then, unless you have kept your skills up to tát date, it’s probably no longer relevant. For example, if you studied French to tát degree level in 1986 but have maintained your levels of fluency by visiting France every year then great! However, if you’re applying for a job in Web Design because you took a trang chính study course in HTML in 1998 then don’t be surprised if the recruiter doesn’t call…

If your CV is too long, try these 6 effective fixes.

8. Badly formatted CV

These days your CV will most likely be read on-screen before it’s printed off. If indeed, it is ever printed. Therefore, format your CV so sánh that it is easy to tát read on a screen.

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Stick with fonts such as Calibri or Arial at fonts size 11 or 12. Use italics, bold text and colours sparingly and avoid borders and boxes as these can all distract from the nội dung.
If you upload your CV as a Word document, the employer could have a different version, and this could make the document looked poorly formatted. Uploading a PDF can be more reliable.

However, you may need to tát submit your CV via a trang web size. Most likely is that these trang web forms will strip out your document’s formatting anyway. It’s even more important, therefore, to tát ensure that your CV is laid out and formatted to tát look good stripped bare of its ‘bolds’, sub-headings and even bullet points.

9. Meaningless introductions

Does your CV have a paragraph at the top that goes something like:

“Dynamic, enthusiastic, sales-oriented I.T. literate, results-driven manager with several years people management experience seeking exciting and challenging new opportunities in the blah blah blah…”

Yawn.

Your CV has got to tát hit the recruiter smack bang between the eyes! It has got to tát make them sit up, spurt hot coffee from their mouths as they scramble across their desks for the phone to tát đường dây nóng you and appoint you on the spot!!

Or, to tát put it another way, your CV has got to tát get you noticed and invited in for an interview. So an opening paragraph that says everything and nothing at the same time is not going to tát vì thế it.

Ditch it.

In its place, consider crafting a short, simple and benefits-focused headline about yourself. For example, “Senior Librarian with 10 years’ experience of managing online resources in the health sector.”

That will vì thế nicely. It might not be perfect, but it is better than thở what you had before.

Journalists vì thế this all of the time of course. They write headlines that tell you what the story is about but tease you just enough in order to tát encourage you to tát read on. Your opening, personal headline should vì thế just the same.

10. The ‘So What’ CV

We over where we started. Your CV has a tough job. It will probably be in the hands of the recruiter for a very small amount of time – unless, that is, you smeared it in Super Glue before you sent it (that would be an inventive touch but is also a ‘no-no’).

To give yourself the best chance of it actually being read, make sure that it ‘looks right’. Make sure that it is not too long, that it is laid out correctly, is properly formatted and so sánh on. If you vì thế all of these things then you have a chance. The recruiter will lean back in his or her chair, take another sip of coffee and start to tát digest – not scan – what you’ve written.

So vì thế not throw this moment away!

Making sure you vì thế not vì thế the CV ‘no no’s’ simply gets you to tát the first base. Whilst this is an achievement in itself if your CV does not convince and persuade then you have again wasted your time.

Your CV has to tát sell you.

It has to tát make you sound interesting. It has to tát make you sound as though you will fit into the organisation and that you’ll make a quick and substantial difference.

Because if all your CV does is make the recruiter think, ‘so what?’ you will have dropped the biggest clanger of all.

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