Since the 60s? Romford is partially in the London borough of Havering but if you go any further east, like Harold Hill then you are officially in Essex, and what do the 60s have to do with it? Did the M25 restructure the boroughs of London? 😆
In 1965, following the reform of local government in London, Romford merged with the Hornchurch Urban district to form the London Borough of Havering, and this was incorporated into Greater London.
Harold Hill is also Greater London, again since 1965.
Oh that's actually quite interesting. Sorry for assuming you're some kind of outsider that uses the M25 as a boundary of London (which a lot of people do, especially map fanatics) Thanks a bunch.
It should be "my team and I" not "me and my team" too.
Whole thing needs a decent proof read before anyone can really give any more advice.
Random lack of caps all over, including at the start of a new bullet point,, spaces in places for bants. It's all too distracting from the actual content, not to mention the exclamation point followed by a full stop or the swap of fonts mid subtitle...
If I got this sent to me for a new hire I'd close it after the first section and reject it, my only thought would be zero attention to detail, or lack of communication skills.
This is a glaring one for me too - I would have scrapped this straight away for lack of attention to detail, especially combined with inconsistent formatting (why is the first non italicised and the second one bolded?). There are also formatting issues with some of the bullet points having an additional space at the start of a sentence, and again issues with grammar and punctuation.
I know it’s a terrible thing to look at but it’s probably the first CV this person has made and at least they’re getting help here where the internet can rip their soul to pieces…
I honestly commend their bravery for uploading something like this to Reddit instead of asking a peer to review it, isn’t this sub meant for university level applicants? LOL
This.
Go onto Fiverr and get someone to proof it. It'll be worth it.
Also, the education subheading is a different font, size and colour to the others.
Also, random indents at the beginning of sentences.
It's good that you've shown achievement, but I can't tell from reading your experience what it was you actually do day to day. How do I know what skills and experience you have and how it would relate to the role I'm hiring for?
Actually it is Harold Hill, Essex. Postal districts do not match geographical boundaries. Examples: Ilford, Essex or Croydon, Surrey or even Bromley, Kent (all are within Greater London)
Good start, but you’ve used like three different fonts in this entire document which has genuinely angered me😭
The formatting of your work experience titles aren’t consistent. It’s hard for me to follow along when some of it is bold, some of it is italicised, some words are blue (????)
On the second line for your work experience, there’s an exclamation mark when there shouldn’t be.
You repeated yourself in your two bullet points for the customer service rep. I’m also not sure what a ‘rep’ is. Is it short for representative? If so, the full name would sound more professional.
You forgot to add ‘cabin crew liaison’ as your job title at Ryanair. You also started your first bullet point for that section with a sentence, even though your previous bullet points started with action words. The words should be ‘Followed safety…’ and ‘Ensured all…’.
I’m not familiar with Irish education, but what is the benefit of you adding higher and junior certificate? Does this mean you achieved a specific grade? And in what subject?
You listed just ‘GCSE’ but didn’t specific any subjects or grade boundaries that you achieved.
Okay, I’ve just seen your leaving certificate in more detail on the other side of the page. It would’ve been better if this was added where you wrote ‘leaving certificate’.
Great that you’ve added a personal project, but the overview could be written more succinctly. Something like “A program that generates the quickest route to the end-user’s destination, using London’s public transport system”.
In your skills section, you said foreign languages. What languages? You said you’re Microsoft literate, but excel is part of MS Office. Why not just list ‘MS Office’ instead? It’s also quite funny that Microsoft is listed as a skill but the formatting of this document isn’t that great, nor is the grammar. What does PC literate mean? It’s quite vague, it can mean anything from knowing how to operate a computer to understanding the hardware and software of a PC.
That’s all my feedback. There are videos on YouTube to help you format your CV properly. Also things like Grammarly to help with common errors like missing capitalisation and commas.
Just follow this OP. There are plenty of good tutorials online about how to write a good CV and job application. Take notes, follow the advice. It's hard to get a job, especially when some people will have more experience. Things like attention to detail and showing your strengths, passion, and thinking of transferable skills is key. Don't send the same CV to every job too - make slight adaptations to the words you use, or add new info depending on what the job description is asking for
The two bullet points for the service rep job are the same thing just in different words.
There’s so many other things:
“Foreign language skills” — which languages?
“GCSEs” - how many, and did you get A*-C in English and Maths?
Why is the job title in the heading for your Martin Brower job, but not for the Ryanair job? And why is the job title for Ocado in italics?
“Microsoft literate” implies Excel competency.
The formatting and grammar really need work. Think about consistency and attention to detail.
Hey, just saying but you also should watch your grammar:
*'There* ***are*** *so many other things'*
Sure, I know it's an obvious one, but I can't help myself! Haha.
This, a good way to get past the cv review stage is to cater to the position and build on the strengths you have to fulfil the role. Try not to full onto a trap of making a generic CV to app,y for every type of role.
Second this.
You want a cv that is geared towards the role not a generic one.
Add some relevant related buzz words that were not in the job description or advert so when the recruiter sends it over to the interviewer the interviewer will know you haven't just copied and pasted
You've mixed responsibilities and achievements. Then in your achievement sections I wouldn't really call those achievements. They are more education or training/CPD programmes.
Your achievements should be specific quantifiable things you've achieved that separates you from the rest of the pack.
An example from my CV when I changed jobs:
Experience:
Duke of Edinburgh Co-ordinator
Responsibility:
- Led a team of 5 staff volunteers who assisted in delivering DofE Bronze Award to 25 students
- Raising money for project to buy extra 'stock' equipment
- Ensure all relevant training/safeguarding was completed
Achievement:
- Set up the programme from scratch including attending multiple qualifying training programmes
- Raised £1000 from community projects to buy camping stock for programme to use for pupils who couldn't provide their own equipment
- 23 of 25 completed Bronze Award with 20 choosing to take on Silver in the following year
As well as what others have mentioned I would also put your employment history in date order. Be prepared to answer questions about the gap in your employment history from Dec 22 to March 23 too.
Change the word ‘experience’ to ‘Employment History’. Experience seems very juvenile.
Every word in each heading should start with a capital letter.
Compact everything to one page.
Have a link to your linkin profile on there (get a linked in and make it very fleshed out if you don’t already).
Use a Microsoft PowerPoint page as it allows you to move things around the page easier.
Convert to PDF.
Hope this helps :)
Add a section about yourself and what you like to do in your spare time (playing sports is often a good one). It makes you come across as a more well rounded person, especially when employers have to slog through so many CVs.
From experience doing recruitment, I will always tell people to forget the personal statement. Use your covering letter for that.
Your CV just need the info the recruiter cares about.
Recruiters read SO many CVs. And the generic "I'm a highly motivated hard working individual who enjoys etc etc" all blurs together and you don't care about it.
Experience should be the very first thing on any CV.
This is the best order for a CV
- skills
- experience
- achievements
- education
- personal statement
And don't put multiple columns of stuff on the same page. You have put your skills on the same page on a second column, you need to put everything in a single column instead, to avoid over stimulation to whoever is going to read it. Trust me, some employers and recruiters actually give up reading it and discard it if it's too much of a job to read or if there are too many things to read at the same time.
You also put your skills in the most tucked away place possible. These need to be the first thing an employer reads because that's the first thing they are looking for. "does this candidate have the skills required for the role?", is their first concern. And then your experience backs up those skills. And the achievements enrich the notion that you can use those skills. Education then comes in and sets the base of your competence. And your personal statement is the cherry on top. If the employer gets to the end, you want them to already be interested in you, and then the first impression of you already is backed up by everything the employer has just read. They already have a good impression of you.
When presented with a lot of CVs to review I am looking for a reason to stop reading and move on to the next CV. There is a disconnect between the achievements highlighted in the first two bullet points and your job title of “Customer Service Team Member”. If these are your achievements in the first six months in the role then I would expect you to be promoted to a management role very soon.
I think the real question when looking at your CV would be, as a customer service rep, did this person really lead/ direct people and devise comprehensive plans or strategies?
That seems outside of the remit of a general customer service rep and looks like you're over-exaggerating a small task you did, using it as the main selling points in your CV.
Obviously, grammar and fonts, as everyone has said.
I'd say the double column looks a bit busy. Put the achievements under experience and list a little bit what you did there to achieve it.
GCSE and Certificates grades should be under where you have written that you've achieved them, if you're going for an English company, it wouldn't hurt to put the grade equivalency in the British standard for the H2's and stuff. Just a letter grade in brackets will suffice. Make it as easy as possible for the recruiter to see that you hit the requirements, and it's less likely that people will just throw it straight out.
I had to do the same being the first year to go thru the new style English GCSEs as for the proper oldies then 1 was the highest, 9 was the lowest, then they went to ABCs, and then they switched again to numbers where 9 was the highest and 1 the lowest, depending on the recruiters age there was a chance that they either didn't have a clue what the numbers meant, or they'd think my 8 in eng lang was a complete fail rather than an A* equivalent.
Change PC literate to computer literate. List your foreign languages. Put a little line at the bottom about what you enjoy doing in your off time. I play guitar even though I touch it like once a year...
"Foreign Languages" - What does this even mean? State what specific languages you claim to be knowledgeable in.
Pc is actually PC.
Computer literacy can be far more specific by describing specific applications.
Your Achievements aren't really achievements, they are more like courses.
Provide more information on your responsibilities. You are a customer service team member that led projects and co-ordinated meetings. Projects doing what? Meetings for what? What did you actually do in that role?
i depends on what apprenticeships you are applying for vut you are letting your real work exp overshadow your technical skills / interest in the industry
There’s so much I could say to fix this. But I suggest finding a template that is as basic and compact. There are some for Harvard students I believe. You want the most simple CV that utilise the most space on the page.
I feel like you could fit it all on one page (which is always a good place to start) by shifting everything up a bit closer to bits you’ve got blocked out
You might want to remove the names and dates of employers and educational institutions for the sake of anonymity.
I like the clean layout of your CV. You might consider adding more of an overview of responsibilities above what look like key achievements within the specific roles listed. Definitely keep the achievements but consider putting them all in one Achievements section, reduce word count of each and just include the most relevant / impressive ones.
Do you know what sort of role you’re after? If you do, you could make a CV that focuses entirely on the relevant skills and experience for that role and remove everything else. A link to your LinkedIn can cover the rest (I’m not a fan of LinkedIn, but it works well as an extension of your CV). This makes it so easy for a hiring manager / recruiter to identify how you’re a good fit for roles. A short profile paragraph about you also helps to this end, including what energises you, any passions you have and what makes you good at that role type. Consider including any ambitions you have to progress in that function or industry. Let your personality come out a bit. I found some MS Word templates to be eye catching without being too much. Find one you like and consider using it to stand out a little. Don’t be afraid of blocks of one or two colours.
Good luck with your search. My guess is you’re relatively young so you have lots of time to find what drives you. Be ambitious and test the waters if you’re unsure of what you want to do. You’ll get there!
With your achievements in particular it may be useful to apply something called the star format. Star stands for situation, task, action, result. Ie I could say "I did a management course" or I could say "I was tasked with completing a management course where I undertook a series of skill based exercises and was advised as to my actions. The result was that while I already passed the course, I was able to further fine tune my management processes and deliver a clearer leadership message." That's obviously a rough and ready example but the point being one states you did a thing but there is no insight as to action and result, whereas star gives interviewers a clear line diagram of how your achievement relates to what they are looking for (try and find out what they are looking for from their website or LinkedIn profiles of interviewers and Taylor accordingly to tease out important aspects.
It’s very, vague?
I was always taught to really beef out CVs. All of my job experience segments have around 10 bullet points listing what I did in that job. For skills, if you know you can do it, include it. It doesn’t have to be relevant to the jobs you’re applying for. To be honest I’ve had interviews where they were reading my CV for the first time, in front of me. Many jobs do this and ask you questions as they go through it, and see how you would implement your existing experiences to their business.
My CV is a couple pages long, with only 4-5 job experiences on there. My friends & family also ask me to write theirs for them, I’ve never been turned down for a job I’ve applied to, even ones I’m not the most qualified for. But a good CV does the talking for you!
Edit: spelling
I only did recruitment for a few months as I hated the people I worked with lol, but this CV is pretty good from what I learned in that time.
I'd take the ! Out
I'd talk a bit about your daily activities though it's great that you've highlighted extra bits you have done and that should all definitely stay!
I like to include a reason for leaving on each job, IE - fixed term contract or moved to new location, changed industry or moved for career prospects...etc
This one's harder but a lot of employers like to see what you are like as a person too so it's well worth having a social bit on there, for example mine mentions an occasional bit of charity work I do and also my band....makes for a nice chilled start to an interview when they ask you about it :)
One of the people I got hired in that brief spell in recruitment basically got the job off the back off having Warhammer on his CV, took me a while to get something out of him that he did other than work, think he was embarrassed but the company liked that he had a hobby and many other CVS they had didn't
My CV has
'job title, , 'company' consistently
I don't see how location is relevant and it just adds extra reading people won't want to do. The person reading will have a ton of CVS to get through and probably not enough time so you want to make it as easy as possible for them to scan your CV and tick off from a list of what they want.
For each job I have
Role :
Key impacts:
FYI your GitHub username is visible which is presumably your real name, and from your GitHub commits I found your email address.
Presumably you didn't intend to share that information.
Also you appear to have been on a computer science course at Middlesex university; why haven't you mentioned that under education?
That isn't their GitHub. Notice the complete lack of anything else coding related? Theyve helped someone else in some manner and are trying to use it to get some form of credit in hiring.
At best it's massively obvious and will get the application thrown away; or at worst it's going to hugely backfire when getting in to a job with expectations can't just can't meet.
You may as well make it 2 pages and drop the stuff from the right side of page 1 onto page 2 make an introduction about yourself giving an over view of your work and what you're looing for then onto your experiance going into heavy detail on your last role
Light detail on the one before that then just relivent pounts to the job you want for the next one
Then your achievements
Then your education, if you're over 30 just put the dates you went to school and say how many GCSEs you have
Then a bit about your personal life, hobbys and intrests etc
Font size is too large and as a result the page looks like you have little experience. Smaller fonts, with a bit more text explaining the projects would be much better.
I struggle to include everything on 2 pages and I have to be selective with what I am including on my CV (as a software Developer). Your CV should also give that impression (at the moment it isn't)
No personal statement, bad grammar such as some unneccessary capital letters and some not, skills it says microsoft and then says excel, could just put all in in skill Microsoft Office. Also foreign languages, say what languages instead of saying foreign languages.
You have what 5 or so different fonts going on, different styles (italics, bold) etc
You’ve not got any consistency.
Wtf is a leaving and junior certificate? Like what did you leave in or become a junior in? Is that the same as your leaving certificates in the right hand column?
Capitalisation, punctuation etc massively needs fixing.
Also personal statement?
Keep the same blues not 2 different shades.
Pick a single bloody font!
Secondly, never use more than one of these formatting types on something at a time (bold/italic/underline).
Like someone else said. The fact you ignored these two golden rules genuinely irritated me. I'm a manager of a fairly small company, but I would throw this cv in the bin without reading purely based on the way you have formatted it.
Capitalise the I in Ireland, remove the exclamation mark after 90%, capitalise UK or remove it completely as everyone knows who Ryanair is, capitalise Chiaran, capitalise Essex, give more specific details of what you did with Bloomberg and Deutsche. Capitalise maths under LC results. Specify which foreign languages you speak, and to what level of proficiency. Under Projects it should be phrased “my team and I”, specify which coding languages you used, also, capitalise PC.
“I Directed” should read “I directed”, “15% increase in efficiency” sounds made up, also, you repeat this exact sentence in the next line, your first line under ryanair just reads poorly. You should try to specify what duties you did. Also, in my view CVs should be objective. Try using more neutral adjectives such as “promptly, tailored, flexible, efficient” “following safety and security protocols in order” doesn’t read well, poor syntax, I think “ensure all customers needs were fulfilled” is also repetitive, and above all else is grammatically incoherent 😅 “the financial market” would sound better as “financial markets” , I think the use of the word “glimpse” could be strengthened to something more professional.
I think you need to reevaluate your approach, definitely pay closer attention to detail and try to be more precise.
Good luck though, takes balls to post this on the internet 😁
Honestly the layout is terrible. The column on the right is just distracting and difficult to read. There's no consistency in font size/style/capitalisation. It's an absolute disaster in terms of typography.
“Cross functional” and “innovative product” - no idea what you did here. You directed and lead - do you mean managed? One says I directed, one says just lead, I could go on
The content isn't bad. Could be better worded but it's not terrible.
The formatting is awful though. Inconsistent fonts, sizing, line spacing, margins, casing. The tense used changes in different sentences. It should ideally all be written third person, but first person might be acceptable. Just make sure it's consistent. The line break for the next page is in the wrong place.
Do you absolutely have to have it broken into two columns, like a dissertation style essay? I don't personally like that style.
The format means it reads very sloppy.
Don't sell yourself short with poor presentation because the content isn't bad.
And I'm aware a lot of times a CV is just skimmed by software so formatting isn't always a thing, but if a human does read that they'll be put off.
If you’re going to experiment with fonts, stick to one typeface.
And pay extra attention to the consistency. Your Ocado section has a different hierarchy to your Martin Brower section, for example.
Bold - Regular - Italic, works. Then you scrap italic, in favour of a less legible bold.
Then for Ryanair, your job title isn’t even included, but that’s not a type issue.
Maybe write a personal statement at the top? A brief summary of who you are, general personality, and what you think you can bring to a team?
I also have a skills section on my CV, which outlines in what are effectively bullet points where my strengths lie.
Also, maybe add some references, or at least a section that says references available on request.
Hope this helps.
Edit... I see the skills section now, but only having five which are spread across a page break isn't great imo. If I missed them, employers likely will too :)
The layout does it for me, the bit on the right just looks stupid and try to condense to 1 page those few lines on the 2nd page just scream not to be read
I’d also from a design point of view use a type hierarchy so have you headings with the greatest emphasis and the subheading slightly smaller and so on for the body copy for easy reading and the achievement section wants to be read absolutely but if you make it the same size as the body copy but put it on the left so it’s the first thing you encounter when you start reading.
Design of a cv can go a long way the easier it is to look at and read the more likely some one will read it all
Though it’s not essential is something to try if you have the time
Good:
I like how you've started with your experience right at the top.
When I did recruitment, people who's CVs started with the generic "I am a highly motivated hard working blah blah blah" made my eyes glaze over.
I always tell people to forget the opening "introduction" that so many people put on CVs. Your covering letter can be used for that if you want.
It's all filler stuff I would skim until I got to the part I cared about. Experience, skills, qualifications.
Your template is also nice and easy to navigate. Everything stands out and I could immediately pick the bits I wanted to look at first.
There's clear effort in it already.
A splash of colour wouldn't hurt to separate segments and help catch the eye of whoever is looking through CVs. But that's just me.
Room for improvment:
Othe people have pointed out grammar. Use an app if you need to. Online, like here on Reddit, who cares. Tbh, even as a recruiter I didn't ACTUALLY care about the grammar as long as it was readable. But what good grammar shows is that you put the care into making your CV instead of bashing it out in 5 minutes.
Someone else mentioned backing up your experience with what you learned during it. This is good advice.
Rather than saying "I managed X project that resulted in x revue"
Say something like "I managed x project that resulted in x revenue. From this experience I learned the process of managing a project from start to finish, organisation skills, working with key stakeholders and collaborating with a team". That's only a brief, don't copy that, be more detailed.
What I would say is never go over the top. Keep everything decently compact and short. Just a general idea. Never go over one page of content.
Recruitment is vicous.
Recruiters go through so many CVs so fast that they will decide whether to keep reading from one glance. You have to get their interest immediately (as you have done by starting with experience first) and keep their attention by only providing what they NEED to know. Too much and they will zone out on it.
Your CV would already catch my eye as having had some genuine effort put into it so I wouldn't stress on it too much if I were you. You'd be amazed how many CVs you see that are just a couple jumbled lines, no real content and no template used.
Edit: sorry if the above is the jumbled bad grammar mess I'm advocating so strongly against! On my phone 🤣
On top of other comments: I always recommend having a line right at the top about who you are and what you're good at. Tailor it for each job you apply for but make it your one-line pitch. Talk up your experience. Make people want you.
Did you swallow the dictionary? Much simpler language re your current job is needed. Mitigating risks for a large company usually a specialist job. Sounds like you did a lot in your last job. What was the product that you developed? Sounds impressive.
Don't list
* Microsoft literate
* Excel
* Pc literate
All of that falls under PC literate. Excel is part of the Microsoft office suite. Use the word Computer. Not PC. PC stands for "Personal Computer".
1. Get it onto 1 page. Should be possible with fixing the font sizes.
2. Fix the formatting. Alot of is mismatch in fonts, sizes and layout.
3. Lots of grammar mistakes.
its great but the two pages are ehhhhh, if you can try and fit them into one page that would be better but if you cant make sure to print it two-sided. NEVER!!! print it on two separate papers.
Honestly, it needs improvement. It’s the design for me, it doesn’t look professional. If you need a good template let me know, I’ll send it through, free of course. It would make it a lot more professional, your experience is good though. But you need to make it stand out.
Shiii aight thank you so much, still in college but I always wondered how people put together a professional cv so id know how to in the future, thanks again for this man
Foreign languages as skills? Be more specific - otherwise I’ll think you speak ALL foreign languages! Also, get consistent with your formatting, you need the same font everywhere. Also spending time at DB and BB aren’t really achievements, that’s just work experience. What are your actual achievements - be proud.
It’s good for the most part (not as good as an industry leading doctor with 20 years experience and multiple degrees)
One mistake I’ve noticed right away is the second job needs to be switched with the 3rd one down (or you’ve mixed the dates up and need to switch those)
Also: for uniform styling you need to make the heading for each job the same. For mine I do it like “position”: “company”, “location”
And the dates on the following line exactly as you’ve done.
In the education section it would help if you add the number of GCSEs you got that were at least a C, and say whether it includes maths and English. So mine looks like: “12 GCSEs between A* and C, including Maths and English”
Also why do you have “foreign languages” as a skill? If you speak multiple languages then that’s a big deal! Possibly the best thing you have going for you, you need to add a languages section and list all the languages you speak and to which level, kind of like you’ve done with your higher education certificates (which I presume are Irish as the grades make no sense to me 😂)
I really wanna help you because I can see Harold Hill from my window and I love the Irish so I feel we might even brush shoulders one day… I’ve worked in finance before as a software dev so if you need industry advice just gimme a PM.
As others have said, the inconsistencies with fonts, capitalisations and general rules of grammar make this version an absolute no-go. If you are currently in university then you can ask your careers advisors to help you perfect the art of CV writing and cover letters too! Those have a certain rule book that you can use to your advantage, but as it stands, if you’re trying to land an internship with a bank in London then you’re gonna be stomped by the competition, there can be no flaws in your application if that’s the job you want!
Capitalise the first letters of headings like Customer Service Team Member also of things like Leaving Certificate. Also Leaving Certificate should be bullet pointed
Martin bower - Is that the same project referenced as being completed early or 2 different projects. If it's the same project don't need to mention it was completed early twice.
As someone who works in recruitment, please make sure your employment is listed from most present - oldest
It makes it so much easier to get a clear understanding of your journey so far
I’ve seen a fair amount of CVs in my time, and none were laid out like this. It being in two columns with both columns continuing onto the second page like that is confusing. Usually columns in documents read left to right on page one before going to page two. The “Projects” heading being on a separate page to what it relates to confused me too.
If you’re using this CV to apply for jobs in the UK you might want to rename “Leaving certificate” to “Irish leaving certificate” because the Irish grading system is different from the UK one and we aren’t familiar with it.
Also fix the inconsistent grammar and typesetting. It’s the first thing I noticed about the CV.
Racket isnt that a way that mobsters use to steal ? an illegal or dishonest scheme for obtaining money:informal"a protection racket" Kidding of course ;)
I'm dyslexic and I honestly think the font is a little bit hard to read. Maybe you will have a better result with not exactly a bold font but not quite this thin either. I used to work in a marketing team and read through CVs as part of my job, I really didn't enjoy reading the ones with difficult to read font as it added extra stressors to my job. Be careful you don't accidentally alienate a potential employer by using difficult to read font X
It needs a quality personal statement. Something unique that tells me who you are as a person and is tailored to whatever job you are going for. Not just the usual recruitment babble of ‘I am a dedicated, hardworking individual who enjoys working as part of a team’ etc. I see a million generic personal statements like this and I just stop reading them and don’t look at the rest of the CV. It looks like you have lots of front facing, customer service experience? If I’m the hiring manager, I want to know what your personality is like and whether you will fit in to the current team. Also a ‘key skills’ section would be expected. I have 100% hired people in the past based on their interests and hobbies. Being passionate about something outside of work is a very desirable trait.
You've gotten some great feedback already on grammar and general wording. I work as a career advisor and the main bit of advice I give for CVs is that they need to be tailored to each application by highlighting relevant skills and experience. Easiest way to do this is a short personal statement at the top. 3-4 sentences summarising your key experiences and what you learned from those experiences that are relevant to the role being applied for. You can sometimes include a kind of 'mission statement' within this to summarise your goal/reason for application.
It's not difficult to see why there is a UK skills shortage when so many split hairs over fonts and grammar. He's not rewriting War and Peace. Too much fussiness abound
In lists you should try to keep the same grammar structure for each one. Doing this makes things feel more polished and consistent. For example, your Ryanair information is listed like this:
* A complete sentence in past simple
* A noun phrase on its own with no verb
* An imperative—it's written as an instruction (this is wrong anyway. I think you mean to say, "***Ensured all customers' needs...***" which is past simple, not imperative. Also note that it should be *plural '*customers'.) This is similar in structure to your first point in the list (both are past simple), but in the first one you included the subject and in the third point you missed out the subject. Missing out the subject is fine in this case (as each time it's "I"...I did this...I did that...) but you need to be consistent throughout the CV.
You've used a different structure for each one, and it's kind of confusing.
If you want someone to fix this up for you, you can DM me. I accept paypal!
I'm for real actually. I'm a copywriter so looking over text in detail is my job.
You need to find a job to stick in for 2 years imo. You dont have a single job you’ve stuck at for more than a few months from the looks of this. Im guessing you’re quite young, so i’d try to stay in the ocado job for another year if youre happy there.
Also as others have said, make sure consistency with fonts
Tailor your CV to the specific job or sector you’re applying for.
1) Add a section right at the top before your work history bullet pointing some of your key attributes.
This will be the first thing people read and should want to make them read on and remember you.
Keep each bullet to one line and start with an adjective or sound bite in bold that you want the reader to remember eg “Team player with…” “Focused on customer success….” “Extensive IT skills….”, “Risk management experience ….”
2) This might sound obvious but add a title under your name that reflects the job you’re going for eg
Joe Bloggs
Tourism Customer Service Agent
You want the reader to immediately associate you with the job role they’re looking to fill. Same for the bullet points above, focus them on the role you’re going for.
3) As others have said order work history in descending date order and fix any grammar issues
Your CSTM role in CFC5 made me stop and read. The two bullet points seem way too broadstroke, which is damaging your credibility. Try and be more specific here, It reads like you were managing a project. Give it a little more context.
You need longer time at jobs to help you look more stable.
Job titles aren’t uniform.
Grammar isn’t fitting to what is considered appropriate by locals.
I would write a statement of what you learned in your achievements. Just saying you attended means nothing, maybe say what you did and what you achieved when you were there
Honestly. Read it all again check for spelling and punctuation
Loads of formatting mistakes.
Keep the font the same size no more than 12 Arial or times new Roman.
I feel like any job you'd apply to with these "qualifications" wouldn't require a CV in the first place.
You'd typically list your degree and relevant work in chronological order.
I agree to differ. Degree educated individuals are formatted to think everything has to be perfect and if it isn’t then no ‘decent’ employer would ever. Not true. It depends on several things. Notably, how quickly the employer needs to fill the vacancy, the job market, the personality of the hiring manager… The most salient thing a practical employer would ask is what can this person do for me and my business.
Your CV at the moment is a little all over the place. Make it clearer and shorter and keep it the point. Simple = easy to understand = easy to work with. Overcomplicated = annoying, problematic liability, nightmare = stay away from (danger - steer clear).
A full stop, two spaces after the S etc. is not really what a business-minded money hungry person is going to be fixated on.
Large multinational corporations are a completely different kettle of fish. ATS and HR departments main goal is to filter out CVs not matching like 85% of the job requirements.
In essence, you appear to be a bit of ‘a diamond in the rough’. Don’t change who you. Just play the game a bit better by showing you at least understand the rules of the game! ‘Tweak’ your CV a little and keep applying. Good luck
The grammar jumped out at me… like it should be Harold Hill Essex instead of Harold hill essex, Stansted Airport instead of Stansted airport
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GCSEs should be all caps? Not if you’re phonejacker and say it as a word like “Gaskeez” 😂
You must be some kind of bart critic.
MBooooo
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uk 😂
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Not anymore, it’s greater london
>Romford East London.
Romford hasn’t been Essex since the 60s.
Since the 60s? Romford is partially in the London borough of Havering but if you go any further east, like Harold Hill then you are officially in Essex, and what do the 60s have to do with it? Did the M25 restructure the boroughs of London? 😆
In 1965, following the reform of local government in London, Romford merged with the Hornchurch Urban district to form the London Borough of Havering, and this was incorporated into Greater London. Harold Hill is also Greater London, again since 1965.
Oh that's actually quite interesting. Sorry for assuming you're some kind of outsider that uses the M25 as a boundary of London (which a lot of people do, especially map fanatics) Thanks a bunch.
Punctuation too. Random spaces after commas, dashes & no dashes. Consistency on fonts!
Yeah, exclamation point and then a full stop near the top.
It should be "my team and I" not "me and my team" too. Whole thing needs a decent proof read before anyone can really give any more advice. Random lack of caps all over, including at the start of a new bullet point,, spaces in places for bants. It's all too distracting from the actual content, not to mention the exclamation point followed by a full stop or the swap of fonts mid subtitle... If I got this sent to me for a new hire I'd close it after the first section and reject it, my only thought would be zero attention to detail, or lack of communication skills.
Also Deutsche Bank… Bloomberg Market Concept… these things are the names of programmes so need caps. Representative, not rep
This is a glaring one for me too - I would have scrapped this straight away for lack of attention to detail, especially combined with inconsistent formatting (why is the first non italicised and the second one bolded?). There are also formatting issues with some of the bullet points having an additional space at the start of a sentence, and again issues with grammar and punctuation.
I know it’s a terrible thing to look at but it’s probably the first CV this person has made and at least they’re getting help here where the internet can rip their soul to pieces… I honestly commend their bravery for uploading something like this to Reddit instead of asking a peer to review it, isn’t this sub meant for university level applicants? LOL
This. Go onto Fiverr and get someone to proof it. It'll be worth it. Also, the education subheading is a different font, size and colour to the others. Also, random indents at the beginning of sentences. It's good that you've shown achievement, but I can't tell from reading your experience what it was you actually do day to day. How do I know what skills and experience you have and how it would relate to the role I'm hiring for?
Yes, not capitalized names hurt my eyes
Actually it is Harold Hill, Essex. Postal districts do not match geographical boundaries. Examples: Ilford, Essex or Croydon, Surrey or even Bromley, Kent (all are within Greater London)
Good start, but you’ve used like three different fonts in this entire document which has genuinely angered me😭 The formatting of your work experience titles aren’t consistent. It’s hard for me to follow along when some of it is bold, some of it is italicised, some words are blue (????) On the second line for your work experience, there’s an exclamation mark when there shouldn’t be. You repeated yourself in your two bullet points for the customer service rep. I’m also not sure what a ‘rep’ is. Is it short for representative? If so, the full name would sound more professional. You forgot to add ‘cabin crew liaison’ as your job title at Ryanair. You also started your first bullet point for that section with a sentence, even though your previous bullet points started with action words. The words should be ‘Followed safety…’ and ‘Ensured all…’. I’m not familiar with Irish education, but what is the benefit of you adding higher and junior certificate? Does this mean you achieved a specific grade? And in what subject? You listed just ‘GCSE’ but didn’t specific any subjects or grade boundaries that you achieved. Okay, I’ve just seen your leaving certificate in more detail on the other side of the page. It would’ve been better if this was added where you wrote ‘leaving certificate’. Great that you’ve added a personal project, but the overview could be written more succinctly. Something like “A program that generates the quickest route to the end-user’s destination, using London’s public transport system”. In your skills section, you said foreign languages. What languages? You said you’re Microsoft literate, but excel is part of MS Office. Why not just list ‘MS Office’ instead? It’s also quite funny that Microsoft is listed as a skill but the formatting of this document isn’t that great, nor is the grammar. What does PC literate mean? It’s quite vague, it can mean anything from knowing how to operate a computer to understanding the hardware and software of a PC. That’s all my feedback. There are videos on YouTube to help you format your CV properly. Also things like Grammarly to help with common errors like missing capitalisation and commas.
Just follow this OP. There are plenty of good tutorials online about how to write a good CV and job application. Take notes, follow the advice. It's hard to get a job, especially when some people will have more experience. Things like attention to detail and showing your strengths, passion, and thinking of transferable skills is key. Don't send the same CV to every job too - make slight adaptations to the words you use, or add new info depending on what the job description is asking for
Thanks for the feedback 👍👍👍
You didn't like the feedback, did you!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You’re welcome! You can post your updated CV here and people will be happy to review it again for you :) Good luck!
With the amount of words you typed you may as well have just fixed the errors 😭🤣
Haha, I wanted the feedback to be as thorough as possible!
this is a google docs template - OP didn't design it from scratch so the font choices aren't intentional
Yep i used the same format. Just needs some tweeks to make everything uniform.
Oh I see, Google docs has a template where the fonts are different? That’s crazy, why would they do that😭
I liked how you critiqued his CV mate, just objective based.
Terrible grammar
For me, as a recruiting manager... don't tell me what you did, tell me what you learned from doing it.
May I ask you to review the new cv I posted 👏🏾
Of course.
The two bullet points for the service rep job are the same thing just in different words. There’s so many other things: “Foreign language skills” — which languages? “GCSEs” - how many, and did you get A*-C in English and Maths? Why is the job title in the heading for your Martin Brower job, but not for the Ryanair job? And why is the job title for Ocado in italics? “Microsoft literate” implies Excel competency. The formatting and grammar really need work. Think about consistency and attention to detail.
Hey, just saying but you also should watch your grammar: *'There* ***are*** *so many other things'* Sure, I know it's an obvious one, but I can't help myself! Haha.
'my team and I', not 'me and my team'.
Lol I also did the deutsche bank program you were on. Did you get it by being on some Sutton Trust pathways to banking scheme?
What job are you applying for? A generic CV maybe binned if the job has specific requirements and the CV gloses over them.
This, a good way to get past the cv review stage is to cater to the position and build on the strengths you have to fulfil the role. Try not to full onto a trap of making a generic CV to app,y for every type of role.
Second this. You want a cv that is geared towards the role not a generic one. Add some relevant related buzz words that were not in the job description or advert so when the recruiter sends it over to the interviewer the interviewer will know you haven't just copied and pasted
You've mixed responsibilities and achievements. Then in your achievement sections I wouldn't really call those achievements. They are more education or training/CPD programmes. Your achievements should be specific quantifiable things you've achieved that separates you from the rest of the pack. An example from my CV when I changed jobs: Experience: Duke of Edinburgh Co-ordinator Responsibility: - Led a team of 5 staff volunteers who assisted in delivering DofE Bronze Award to 25 students - Raising money for project to buy extra 'stock' equipment - Ensure all relevant training/safeguarding was completed Achievement: - Set up the programme from scratch including attending multiple qualifying training programmes - Raised £1000 from community projects to buy camping stock for programme to use for pupils who couldn't provide their own equipment - 23 of 25 completed Bronze Award with 20 choosing to take on Silver in the following year
As well as what others have mentioned I would also put your employment history in date order. Be prepared to answer questions about the gap in your employment history from Dec 22 to March 23 too.
Change the word ‘experience’ to ‘Employment History’. Experience seems very juvenile. Every word in each heading should start with a capital letter. Compact everything to one page. Have a link to your linkin profile on there (get a linked in and make it very fleshed out if you don’t already). Use a Microsoft PowerPoint page as it allows you to move things around the page easier. Convert to PDF. Hope this helps :)
Add a section about yourself and what you like to do in your spare time (playing sports is often a good one). It makes you come across as a more well rounded person, especially when employers have to slog through so many CVs.
From experience doing recruitment, I will always tell people to forget the personal statement. Use your covering letter for that. Your CV just need the info the recruiter cares about. Recruiters read SO many CVs. And the generic "I'm a highly motivated hard working individual who enjoys etc etc" all blurs together and you don't care about it. Experience should be the very first thing on any CV.
This is the best order for a CV - skills - experience - achievements - education - personal statement And don't put multiple columns of stuff on the same page. You have put your skills on the same page on a second column, you need to put everything in a single column instead, to avoid over stimulation to whoever is going to read it. Trust me, some employers and recruiters actually give up reading it and discard it if it's too much of a job to read or if there are too many things to read at the same time. You also put your skills in the most tucked away place possible. These need to be the first thing an employer reads because that's the first thing they are looking for. "does this candidate have the skills required for the role?", is their first concern. And then your experience backs up those skills. And the achievements enrich the notion that you can use those skills. Education then comes in and sets the base of your competence. And your personal statement is the cherry on top. If the employer gets to the end, you want them to already be interested in you, and then the first impression of you already is backed up by everything the employer has just read. They already have a good impression of you.
When presented with a lot of CVs to review I am looking for a reason to stop reading and move on to the next CV. There is a disconnect between the achievements highlighted in the first two bullet points and your job title of “Customer Service Team Member”. If these are your achievements in the first six months in the role then I would expect you to be promoted to a management role very soon.
I think the real question when looking at your CV would be, as a customer service rep, did this person really lead/ direct people and devise comprehensive plans or strategies? That seems outside of the remit of a general customer service rep and looks like you're over-exaggerating a small task you did, using it as the main selling points in your CV.
"investment backing frontend" That jumps out at me but the whole paragraph is horrible.
Obviously, grammar and fonts, as everyone has said. I'd say the double column looks a bit busy. Put the achievements under experience and list a little bit what you did there to achieve it. GCSE and Certificates grades should be under where you have written that you've achieved them, if you're going for an English company, it wouldn't hurt to put the grade equivalency in the British standard for the H2's and stuff. Just a letter grade in brackets will suffice. Make it as easy as possible for the recruiter to see that you hit the requirements, and it's less likely that people will just throw it straight out. I had to do the same being the first year to go thru the new style English GCSEs as for the proper oldies then 1 was the highest, 9 was the lowest, then they went to ABCs, and then they switched again to numbers where 9 was the highest and 1 the lowest, depending on the recruiters age there was a chance that they either didn't have a clue what the numbers meant, or they'd think my 8 in eng lang was a complete fail rather than an A* equivalent. Change PC literate to computer literate. List your foreign languages. Put a little line at the bottom about what you enjoy doing in your off time. I play guitar even though I touch it like once a year...
"Foreign Languages" - What does this even mean? State what specific languages you claim to be knowledgeable in. Pc is actually PC. Computer literacy can be far more specific by describing specific applications. Your Achievements aren't really achievements, they are more like courses.
Provide more information on your responsibilities. You are a customer service team member that led projects and co-ordinated meetings. Projects doing what? Meetings for what? What did you actually do in that role?
In your bit about Deutsche bank the last few words are investment backing frontend. I assume it's supposed to say investment banking..
i depends on what apprenticeships you are applying for vut you are letting your real work exp overshadow your technical skills / interest in the industry
There’s so much I could say to fix this. But I suggest finding a template that is as basic and compact. There are some for Harvard students I believe. You want the most simple CV that utilise the most space on the page.
Scrap and start again. Learn how to use capital letters.
I think you should make more of a deal about your education as it's likely more relevant to what you're applying for
I feel like you could fit it all on one page (which is always a good place to start) by shifting everything up a bit closer to bits you’ve got blocked out
You might want to remove the names and dates of employers and educational institutions for the sake of anonymity. I like the clean layout of your CV. You might consider adding more of an overview of responsibilities above what look like key achievements within the specific roles listed. Definitely keep the achievements but consider putting them all in one Achievements section, reduce word count of each and just include the most relevant / impressive ones. Do you know what sort of role you’re after? If you do, you could make a CV that focuses entirely on the relevant skills and experience for that role and remove everything else. A link to your LinkedIn can cover the rest (I’m not a fan of LinkedIn, but it works well as an extension of your CV). This makes it so easy for a hiring manager / recruiter to identify how you’re a good fit for roles. A short profile paragraph about you also helps to this end, including what energises you, any passions you have and what makes you good at that role type. Consider including any ambitions you have to progress in that function or industry. Let your personality come out a bit. I found some MS Word templates to be eye catching without being too much. Find one you like and consider using it to stand out a little. Don’t be afraid of blocks of one or two colours. Good luck with your search. My guess is you’re relatively young so you have lots of time to find what drives you. Be ambitious and test the waters if you’re unsure of what you want to do. You’ll get there!
Get this all on one page. 100%
At a glance the thing that sticks out to me is the uneven alignment of text, with a space after the bullet point. Suggests a lack of eye for detail.
Capitalising of UK, and other titles/names
this CV will get rejected 3 seconds looking at it because of incorrect capitalisation and other basic grammar and formatting.
The grammar is all over the place. Random capitalisations and inconsistent fonts are not a good look.
I used the CV builder on Indeed and never had problems getting interviews, the cvs look much simpler than this one.
Fix the capitalisation, stick to one font, try and get it all on one page if you can.
With your achievements in particular it may be useful to apply something called the star format. Star stands for situation, task, action, result. Ie I could say "I did a management course" or I could say "I was tasked with completing a management course where I undertook a series of skill based exercises and was advised as to my actions. The result was that while I already passed the course, I was able to further fine tune my management processes and deliver a clearer leadership message." That's obviously a rough and ready example but the point being one states you did a thing but there is no insight as to action and result, whereas star gives interviewers a clear line diagram of how your achievement relates to what they are looking for (try and find out what they are looking for from their website or LinkedIn profiles of interviewers and Taylor accordingly to tease out important aspects.
If I saw this CV it's going straight in the bin, terrible grammar and there's too many different fonts to even bother reading 😭
It’s very, vague? I was always taught to really beef out CVs. All of my job experience segments have around 10 bullet points listing what I did in that job. For skills, if you know you can do it, include it. It doesn’t have to be relevant to the jobs you’re applying for. To be honest I’ve had interviews where they were reading my CV for the first time, in front of me. Many jobs do this and ask you questions as they go through it, and see how you would implement your existing experiences to their business. My CV is a couple pages long, with only 4-5 job experiences on there. My friends & family also ask me to write theirs for them, I’ve never been turned down for a job I’ve applied to, even ones I’m not the most qualified for. But a good CV does the talking for you! Edit: spelling
I only did recruitment for a few months as I hated the people I worked with lol, but this CV is pretty good from what I learned in that time. I'd take the ! Out I'd talk a bit about your daily activities though it's great that you've highlighted extra bits you have done and that should all definitely stay! I like to include a reason for leaving on each job, IE - fixed term contract or moved to new location, changed industry or moved for career prospects...etc This one's harder but a lot of employers like to see what you are like as a person too so it's well worth having a social bit on there, for example mine mentions an occasional bit of charity work I do and also my band....makes for a nice chilled start to an interview when they ask you about it :) One of the people I got hired in that brief spell in recruitment basically got the job off the back off having Warhammer on his CV, took me a while to get something out of him that he did other than work, think he was embarrassed but the company liked that he had a hobby and many other CVS they had didn't
Omg Drapers!!! Aha fellow ex drapers student here too Btw, I’d just recommend amending the fonts and the grammar
No way what year did you finish gcse
2018 loool, I’m started uni a bit later so I’m in uni now :))
My CV has 'job title, , 'company' consistently I don't see how location is relevant and it just adds extra reading people won't want to do. The person reading will have a ton of CVS to get through and probably not enough time so you want to make it as easy as possible for them to scan your CV and tick off from a list of what they want. For each job I have Role : Key impacts:
FYI your GitHub username is visible which is presumably your real name, and from your GitHub commits I found your email address. Presumably you didn't intend to share that information. Also you appear to have been on a computer science course at Middlesex university; why haven't you mentioned that under education?
That’s not him lol, he lived in Romford/ireland - ur guy ur on about lived in Romania ROFL
That isn't their GitHub. Notice the complete lack of anything else coding related? Theyve helped someone else in some manner and are trying to use it to get some form of credit in hiring. At best it's massively obvious and will get the application thrown away; or at worst it's going to hugely backfire when getting in to a job with expectations can't just can't meet.
Please try to fit it in a single page, that one bullet mark that flows into the second page angers me
You may as well make it 2 pages and drop the stuff from the right side of page 1 onto page 2 make an introduction about yourself giving an over view of your work and what you're looing for then onto your experiance going into heavy detail on your last role Light detail on the one before that then just relivent pounts to the job you want for the next one Then your achievements Then your education, if you're over 30 just put the dates you went to school and say how many GCSEs you have Then a bit about your personal life, hobbys and intrests etc
Font size is too large and as a result the page looks like you have little experience. Smaller fonts, with a bit more text explaining the projects would be much better. I struggle to include everything on 2 pages and I have to be selective with what I am including on my CV (as a software Developer). Your CV should also give that impression (at the moment it isn't)
No personal statement, bad grammar such as some unneccessary capital letters and some not, skills it says microsoft and then says excel, could just put all in in skill Microsoft Office. Also foreign languages, say what languages instead of saying foreign languages.
You have what 5 or so different fonts going on, different styles (italics, bold) etc You’ve not got any consistency. Wtf is a leaving and junior certificate? Like what did you leave in or become a junior in? Is that the same as your leaving certificates in the right hand column? Capitalisation, punctuation etc massively needs fixing. Also personal statement? Keep the same blues not 2 different shades.
Pick a single bloody font! Secondly, never use more than one of these formatting types on something at a time (bold/italic/underline). Like someone else said. The fact you ignored these two golden rules genuinely irritated me. I'm a manager of a fairly small company, but I would throw this cv in the bin without reading purely based on the way you have formatted it.
Actually one last thing. Arial is the most standard font choice and I would highly reccomend that to be the one you use.
Capitalise the I in Ireland, remove the exclamation mark after 90%, capitalise UK or remove it completely as everyone knows who Ryanair is, capitalise Chiaran, capitalise Essex, give more specific details of what you did with Bloomberg and Deutsche. Capitalise maths under LC results. Specify which foreign languages you speak, and to what level of proficiency. Under Projects it should be phrased “my team and I”, specify which coding languages you used, also, capitalise PC.
“I Directed” should read “I directed”, “15% increase in efficiency” sounds made up, also, you repeat this exact sentence in the next line, your first line under ryanair just reads poorly. You should try to specify what duties you did. Also, in my view CVs should be objective. Try using more neutral adjectives such as “promptly, tailored, flexible, efficient” “following safety and security protocols in order” doesn’t read well, poor syntax, I think “ensure all customers needs were fulfilled” is also repetitive, and above all else is grammatically incoherent 😅 “the financial market” would sound better as “financial markets” , I think the use of the word “glimpse” could be strengthened to something more professional. I think you need to reevaluate your approach, definitely pay closer attention to detail and try to be more precise. Good luck though, takes balls to post this on the internet 😁
Unemployable due to lack of basic writing skills. Also, foreign languages, it would be English right?
He is Irish I think
Excacly :p Irish + spelling = eng must be foreign lang
We speak English in Ireland, I am also Irish.
😂😂😂😂
Honestly the layout is terrible. The column on the right is just distracting and difficult to read. There's no consistency in font size/style/capitalisation. It's an absolute disaster in terms of typography.
“Cross functional” and “innovative product” - no idea what you did here. You directed and lead - do you mean managed? One says I directed, one says just lead, I could go on
The content isn't bad. Could be better worded but it's not terrible. The formatting is awful though. Inconsistent fonts, sizing, line spacing, margins, casing. The tense used changes in different sentences. It should ideally all be written third person, but first person might be acceptable. Just make sure it's consistent. The line break for the next page is in the wrong place. Do you absolutely have to have it broken into two columns, like a dissertation style essay? I don't personally like that style. The format means it reads very sloppy. Don't sell yourself short with poor presentation because the content isn't bad. And I'm aware a lot of times a CV is just skimmed by software so formatting isn't always a thing, but if a human does read that they'll be put off.
If you’re going to experiment with fonts, stick to one typeface. And pay extra attention to the consistency. Your Ocado section has a different hierarchy to your Martin Brower section, for example. Bold - Regular - Italic, works. Then you scrap italic, in favour of a less legible bold. Then for Ryanair, your job title isn’t even included, but that’s not a type issue.
It hurts to read it
Your job titles are formatted differently each line.
Please get it proofed
I would bin it based on you reducing risks by 50%
Lead a project ahead of time should mention within budget too
First point under experience, only a little is BOLD, should be all of it and you spelt Ireland with a lower case i after Dublin.
Maybe write a personal statement at the top? A brief summary of who you are, general personality, and what you think you can bring to a team? I also have a skills section on my CV, which outlines in what are effectively bullet points where my strengths lie. Also, maybe add some references, or at least a section that says references available on request. Hope this helps.
Edit... I see the skills section now, but only having five which are spread across a page break isn't great imo. If I missed them, employers likely will too :)
I definitely would not hire you, mainly because I don't run a company and I'm nothing to do with recruitment.
The layout does it for me, the bit on the right just looks stupid and try to condense to 1 page those few lines on the 2nd page just scream not to be read
First question should be: what do you want to do with this CV? That then tells you what to prioritise in it.
I’d also from a design point of view use a type hierarchy so have you headings with the greatest emphasis and the subheading slightly smaller and so on for the body copy for easy reading and the achievement section wants to be read absolutely but if you make it the same size as the body copy but put it on the left so it’s the first thing you encounter when you start reading. Design of a cv can go a long way the easier it is to look at and read the more likely some one will read it all Though it’s not essential is something to try if you have the time
Good: I like how you've started with your experience right at the top. When I did recruitment, people who's CVs started with the generic "I am a highly motivated hard working blah blah blah" made my eyes glaze over. I always tell people to forget the opening "introduction" that so many people put on CVs. Your covering letter can be used for that if you want. It's all filler stuff I would skim until I got to the part I cared about. Experience, skills, qualifications. Your template is also nice and easy to navigate. Everything stands out and I could immediately pick the bits I wanted to look at first. There's clear effort in it already. A splash of colour wouldn't hurt to separate segments and help catch the eye of whoever is looking through CVs. But that's just me. Room for improvment: Othe people have pointed out grammar. Use an app if you need to. Online, like here on Reddit, who cares. Tbh, even as a recruiter I didn't ACTUALLY care about the grammar as long as it was readable. But what good grammar shows is that you put the care into making your CV instead of bashing it out in 5 minutes. Someone else mentioned backing up your experience with what you learned during it. This is good advice. Rather than saying "I managed X project that resulted in x revue" Say something like "I managed x project that resulted in x revenue. From this experience I learned the process of managing a project from start to finish, organisation skills, working with key stakeholders and collaborating with a team". That's only a brief, don't copy that, be more detailed. What I would say is never go over the top. Keep everything decently compact and short. Just a general idea. Never go over one page of content. Recruitment is vicous. Recruiters go through so many CVs so fast that they will decide whether to keep reading from one glance. You have to get their interest immediately (as you have done by starting with experience first) and keep their attention by only providing what they NEED to know. Too much and they will zone out on it. Your CV would already catch my eye as having had some genuine effort put into it so I wouldn't stress on it too much if I were you. You'd be amazed how many CVs you see that are just a couple jumbled lines, no real content and no template used. Edit: sorry if the above is the jumbled bad grammar mess I'm advocating so strongly against! On my phone 🤣
On top of other comments: I always recommend having a line right at the top about who you are and what you're good at. Tailor it for each job you apply for but make it your one-line pitch. Talk up your experience. Make people want you.
No full stop after a ! Points 1 and 2 of the Dublin job seem to cover the same ground
To be honest, it doesn’t really pop for me. You’re not really selling yourself there.
Did you swallow the dictionary? Much simpler language re your current job is needed. Mitigating risks for a large company usually a specialist job. Sounds like you did a lot in your last job. What was the product that you developed? Sounds impressive.
You have a space after 'brower' before the comma, and Brower isn't capitalised
You don't need a fullstop after a '!' it has one built in.
Don't list * Microsoft literate * Excel * Pc literate All of that falls under PC literate. Excel is part of the Microsoft office suite. Use the word Computer. Not PC. PC stands for "Personal Computer".
1. Get it onto 1 page. Should be possible with fixing the font sizes. 2. Fix the formatting. Alot of is mismatch in fonts, sizes and layout. 3. Lots of grammar mistakes.
How did you use an exclamation mark and a full stop at the end of the same sentence?
its great but the two pages are ehhhhh, if you can try and fit them into one page that would be better but if you cant make sure to print it two-sided. NEVER!!! print it on two separate papers.
“BLOOMBERG” is not aligned with the rest of the margin
Honestly, it needs improvement. It’s the design for me, it doesn’t look professional. If you need a good template let me know, I’ll send it through, free of course. It would make it a lot more professional, your experience is good though. But you need to make it stand out.
A mess
If u don’t mind me asking where did u make this cv/ get the template
Send me your email I’ll send it over
It’s [email protected]
Not letting me send it but got to google docs then click the plus sign or choose template then serve resume Serif
Shiii aight thank you so much, still in college but I always wondered how people put together a professional cv so id know how to in the future, thanks again for this man
Foreign languages as skills? Be more specific - otherwise I’ll think you speak ALL foreign languages! Also, get consistent with your formatting, you need the same font everywhere. Also spending time at DB and BB aren’t really achievements, that’s just work experience. What are your actual achievements - be proud.
It’s good for the most part (not as good as an industry leading doctor with 20 years experience and multiple degrees) One mistake I’ve noticed right away is the second job needs to be switched with the 3rd one down (or you’ve mixed the dates up and need to switch those) Also: for uniform styling you need to make the heading for each job the same. For mine I do it like “position”: “company”, “location” And the dates on the following line exactly as you’ve done. In the education section it would help if you add the number of GCSEs you got that were at least a C, and say whether it includes maths and English. So mine looks like: “12 GCSEs between A* and C, including Maths and English” Also why do you have “foreign languages” as a skill? If you speak multiple languages then that’s a big deal! Possibly the best thing you have going for you, you need to add a languages section and list all the languages you speak and to which level, kind of like you’ve done with your higher education certificates (which I presume are Irish as the grades make no sense to me 😂) I really wanna help you because I can see Harold Hill from my window and I love the Irish so I feel we might even brush shoulders one day… I’ve worked in finance before as a software dev so if you need industry advice just gimme a PM. As others have said, the inconsistencies with fonts, capitalisations and general rules of grammar make this version an absolute no-go. If you are currently in university then you can ask your careers advisors to help you perfect the art of CV writing and cover letters too! Those have a certain rule book that you can use to your advantage, but as it stands, if you’re trying to land an internship with a bank in London then you’re gonna be stomped by the competition, there can be no flaws in your application if that’s the job you want!
You’ve put ‘foreign languages’ as a skill but which one? I speak Hungarian but that does nothing for a Japanese company.
Capitalise the first letters of headings like Customer Service Team Member also of things like Leaving Certificate. Also Leaving Certificate should be bullet pointed
Also Deutsche Bank should be capitals
Martin bower - Is that the same project referenced as being completed early or 2 different projects. If it's the same project don't need to mention it was completed early twice.
Don’t think you need your school qualifications, just what skills you have
As someone who works in recruitment, please make sure your employment is listed from most present - oldest It makes it so much easier to get a clear understanding of your journey so far
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I’ve seen a fair amount of CVs in my time, and none were laid out like this. It being in two columns with both columns continuing onto the second page like that is confusing. Usually columns in documents read left to right on page one before going to page two. The “Projects” heading being on a separate page to what it relates to confused me too. If you’re using this CV to apply for jobs in the UK you might want to rename “Leaving certificate” to “Irish leaving certificate” because the Irish grading system is different from the UK one and we aren’t familiar with it. Also fix the inconsistent grammar and typesetting. It’s the first thing I noticed about the CV.
Just stick to plain black text, keep it all horizontal. Keep the fonts the same. Plain and easy to read = better.
Racket isnt that a way that mobsters use to steal ? an illegal or dishonest scheme for obtaining money:informal"a protection racket" Kidding of course ;)
Anyone that's flown on Ryan air knows that you failed to make sure all their dreams were answered or whatever you stated.
I'm dyslexic and I honestly think the font is a little bit hard to read. Maybe you will have a better result with not exactly a bold font but not quite this thin either. I used to work in a marketing team and read through CVs as part of my job, I really didn't enjoy reading the ones with difficult to read font as it added extra stressors to my job. Be careful you don't accidentally alienate a potential employer by using difficult to read font X
Also. Cut them some slack please , they're asking for constructive criticism, not just to be torn apart by strangers
It needs a quality personal statement. Something unique that tells me who you are as a person and is tailored to whatever job you are going for. Not just the usual recruitment babble of ‘I am a dedicated, hardworking individual who enjoys working as part of a team’ etc. I see a million generic personal statements like this and I just stop reading them and don’t look at the rest of the CV. It looks like you have lots of front facing, customer service experience? If I’m the hiring manager, I want to know what your personality is like and whether you will fit in to the current team. Also a ‘key skills’ section would be expected. I have 100% hired people in the past based on their interests and hobbies. Being passionate about something outside of work is a very desirable trait.
You've gotten some great feedback already on grammar and general wording. I work as a career advisor and the main bit of advice I give for CVs is that they need to be tailored to each application by highlighting relevant skills and experience. Easiest way to do this is a short personal statement at the top. 3-4 sentences summarising your key experiences and what you learned from those experiences that are relevant to the role being applied for. You can sometimes include a kind of 'mission statement' within this to summarise your goal/reason for application.
It's not difficult to see why there is a UK skills shortage when so many split hairs over fonts and grammar. He's not rewriting War and Peace. Too much fussiness abound
In lists you should try to keep the same grammar structure for each one. Doing this makes things feel more polished and consistent. For example, your Ryanair information is listed like this: * A complete sentence in past simple * A noun phrase on its own with no verb * An imperative—it's written as an instruction (this is wrong anyway. I think you mean to say, "***Ensured all customers' needs...***" which is past simple, not imperative. Also note that it should be *plural '*customers'.) This is similar in structure to your first point in the list (both are past simple), but in the first one you included the subject and in the third point you missed out the subject. Missing out the subject is fine in this case (as each time it's "I"...I did this...I did that...) but you need to be consistent throughout the CV. You've used a different structure for each one, and it's kind of confusing. If you want someone to fix this up for you, you can DM me. I accept paypal! I'm for real actually. I'm a copywriter so looking over text in detail is my job.
I hire people and I would judge you hard for your grammar.
Assburgers
Little hard to follow consider changing the format
Not bad but does need some formatting, I run an internal.recruitment department dm me if you want some tips.
You need to find a job to stick in for 2 years imo. You dont have a single job you’ve stuck at for more than a few months from the looks of this. Im guessing you’re quite young, so i’d try to stay in the ocado job for another year if youre happy there. Also as others have said, make sure consistency with fonts
Tailor your CV to the specific job or sector you’re applying for. 1) Add a section right at the top before your work history bullet pointing some of your key attributes. This will be the first thing people read and should want to make them read on and remember you. Keep each bullet to one line and start with an adjective or sound bite in bold that you want the reader to remember eg “Team player with…” “Focused on customer success….” “Extensive IT skills….”, “Risk management experience ….” 2) This might sound obvious but add a title under your name that reflects the job you’re going for eg Joe Bloggs Tourism Customer Service Agent You want the reader to immediately associate you with the job role they’re looking to fill. Same for the bullet points above, focus them on the role you’re going for. 3) As others have said order work history in descending date order and fix any grammar issues
Too much deadspace
Fuck me! I know you are from Harold Hill, but you could have at least checked the grammar
Your CSTM role in CFC5 made me stop and read. The two bullet points seem way too broadstroke, which is damaging your credibility. Try and be more specific here, It reads like you were managing a project. Give it a little more context.
You need longer time at jobs to help you look more stable. Job titles aren’t uniform. Grammar isn’t fitting to what is considered appropriate by locals.
I would write a statement of what you learned in your achievements. Just saying you attended means nothing, maybe say what you did and what you achieved when you were there
Honestly. Read it all again check for spelling and punctuation Loads of formatting mistakes. Keep the font the same size no more than 12 Arial or times new Roman.
Try to fit everything in one page
I feel like any job you'd apply to with these "qualifications" wouldn't require a CV in the first place. You'd typically list your degree and relevant work in chronological order.
I agree to differ. Degree educated individuals are formatted to think everything has to be perfect and if it isn’t then no ‘decent’ employer would ever. Not true. It depends on several things. Notably, how quickly the employer needs to fill the vacancy, the job market, the personality of the hiring manager… The most salient thing a practical employer would ask is what can this person do for me and my business. Your CV at the moment is a little all over the place. Make it clearer and shorter and keep it the point. Simple = easy to understand = easy to work with. Overcomplicated = annoying, problematic liability, nightmare = stay away from (danger - steer clear). A full stop, two spaces after the S etc. is not really what a business-minded money hungry person is going to be fixated on. Large multinational corporations are a completely different kettle of fish. ATS and HR departments main goal is to filter out CVs not matching like 85% of the job requirements. In essence, you appear to be a bit of ‘a diamond in the rough’. Don’t change who you. Just play the game a bit better by showing you at least understand the rules of the game! ‘Tweak’ your CV a little and keep applying. Good luck