The good: This CV has a clean and simple format with enough details to create a clear picture of the person’s background, but not enough to make the recruitment specialists’ eyes glaze over. Click here to view.
The bad: This CV is much too generic and short. For QA positions, knowledge of specific technologies or industries can make or break, so being vague will keep you from being considered for some roles. Here’s an example.
The Ugly: Coming soon. It takes a surprisingly long time to invent bad CV’s.
This is an axiom that everyone constantly repeats, but that is really a pain to put into practice. “Great” you think, “it was enough of a pain to come up with one CV, I have no idea what else to say to make 5 different versions of it.” It is worth doing though- even if you’re sure you are right for the job, make it blindingly obvious so your CV makes it through the gauntlet and onto the right desk.
Some ways to get started after the jump: Read the entire post…
With a diverse population working in IT/software/telecom jobs in Ireland, a whole variety of CV formats are floating around out there. It’s a cliche, but even with great experience a confusing or inadequate CV can get you screened out early in the process, or worse, it can give the (mistaken) impression that yo have something to hide. Sometimes it’s just crummy CV writing you can see the world over, sometimes it’s adhering to a format that isn’t really common in Ireland/ Europe. To have a CV that gets positive attention: