The 10 most common CV mistakes, and how to avoid them
Often, your CV is your one shot of impressing a recruiter and securing you an interview for a job you really want. So it’s important that you get it absolutely right.
Unfortunately though, talk to any recruiter and they’ll tell you how many potentially good candidates fall at the first job hunting hurdle by making silly but fatal mistakes on their CV.
To help ensure you don’t make any little – but costly – errors, we look at 10 of the biggest CV mistakes, and explain how you can avoid them.
1) Including irrelevant personal information
On average, recruiters spend just 6 seconds looking at CVs, so you don’t want to clog yours up with irrelevant information that’s not going to help your application – and may cause them to miss the really juicy contents. So, unless it’s directly relevant to the position you’re applying for, leave out details like your religion, political preferences, height, weight and the story about the time you met Daniel Craig.
2) Hiding important information
Just as you need to declutter your CV by leaving out anything irrelevant, it’s vital to highlight the key points that may help swing an interview for a particular job. So think about the design of your CV and ways you can bring important details to the fore, for example by putting key achievements in bullet points or bolding your previous job titles.
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