CV Advice

Employers have time pressures so when reading your CV it needs to remain clutter-free and easy to read. The last thing the reader wants to do is to go hunting for the information that they are looking for and struggle to find it amongst the array of elaborate graphics.

Keep your CV to a maximum of two pages – anything more than that and it starts to resemble a chapter from War & Peace; worse still, an employer is likely to throw it away without even looking at it.

Ensure that the layout of your CV remains constant throughout and avoid trying to cram as much information as possible onto two pages. Employers don’t want – nor do they have the time – to strain their eyes reading your details because of a poor choice of text size or font.

Finally, your CV is a working document that has a beginning, middle and an end so it needs to follow a logical structure and keep the same theme throughout. Keep your eye on the detail of your CV: if it is cluttered, the text is too big or small or the appearance is inconsistent, your chance of the detail standing out is impacted.