I know it looks drafty, but this post is a pretty reliable way to improve a CV, even a CV that has gone through professional editing.
I’m saying this based on “I experimented with about 5 people” (including someone with ~20 years of experience), not on my own opinions about what should probably work.
I agree about the too-many-words problem, but it seems like a problem that is more widely known already (as a proxy: If you ask your friends to review your CV, they’ll probably point it out), so I didn’t write about it myself
Adding: The opposite problem also happens all the time, most commonly forgetting to mention measurable successes or even one’s responsibility in the project
Improving CVs:
I know it looks drafty, but this post is a pretty reliable way to improve a CV, even a CV that has gone through professional editing.
I’m saying this based on “I experimented with about 5 people” (including someone with ~20 years of experience), not on my own opinions about what should probably work.
I think some CVs make the mistake of spending too many words to explain something: “No, this nuance is really important!! I have to explain it!!”
As your post rightly points out, it’s disturbingly common to simply omit something altogether.
Good post Yonatan, thanks for linking it :-)
Thanks :)
I agree about the too-many-words problem, but it seems like a problem that is more widely known already (as a proxy: If you ask your friends to review your CV, they’ll probably point it out), so I didn’t write about it myself
Adding: The opposite problem also happens all the time, most commonly forgetting to mention measurable successes or even one’s responsibility in the project