CV printed proffessionally

sharkie

Buy another printer, as you will probably tailor you cv to the job you are applying.

iamana1ias

Quite bad practice for any CV to be more than 2 sides of A4 in any field. Any reason yours is more than 3 times that?

It risks going in the bin - who has time to read 7 pages?

Fragments_Of_Sanity

As it's an architect's CV some of it may be visual, with photos or diagrams of previous work to illustrate their past projects? This may be a positive thing and not a negative.

sharkie

Fragments_Of_Sanity wrote: »

As it's an architect's CV some of it may be visual, with photos or diagrams of previous work to illustrate their past projects? This may be a positive thing and not a negative.

Would you put drawings/sketches on a cv, or if they show interest would you send a portfolio - just wondering, rather than picking as each job speciality has it own way of doing things.

LittleVoice

iamana1ias wrote: »

Quite bad practice for any CV to be more than 2 sides of A4 in any field. Any reason yours is more than 3 times that?

It risks going in the bin - who has time to read 7 pages?

Though a maximum of two sides of A4 is generally good advice, there can be acceptable, even necessary, exceptions.

For instance some IT work requires details of a large number of projects to be included and this will take a CV over the 2-page mark.

Reds-on-Sea

why don't you create a multi page pdf instead of printing and sending out reams of paper. Also, I think it's better to just include 6 samples of your best work & save the bulk for your portfolio. You can email it out then, to as many companies as you like, for free

iamana1ias

LittleVoice wrote: »

Though a maximum of two sides of A4 is generally good advice, there can be acceptable, even necessary, exceptions.

For instance some IT work requires details of a large number of projects to be included and this will take a CV over the 2-page mark.

Yes, I agree - 3 pages at a push. But 7 pages is excessive and a short cv with separate portfolio would be the way to go.

hel1811

I work in recruitment and Ill be honest any CVs which are long and rambling dont get your attetion! Short sharp and words that jump out is what you want.
Helen

annie123

My bother in law is an architect and when he sent out CV's (going back 4 years now mind) he had the standard 2 sides CV plus a 3rd page with 4 photos and a web address to his own website which he had set up as an 'online CV/blog' presented how he wanted.
He'd never done a web site before and did it with the help of on line tutorials.
It worked well for him.

just a thought.