How to format CV

Mark_Glasses

@General_Grant I put London as my location but what benefit would putting my home address give me?

@YBR yes I have a LinkedIn profile and have been contacted numerous times in the past on there. As for other social media I don't think it would do me any favours employment wise. My twitter account is anonymous for that very reason, I'm pro-Brexit and anti-woke, I tell Sadiq Khan what I think of him and voted for Laurence Fox in the last London Mayor election.

Elliott.T123

As someone who spends all day looking at and reviewing CV's I can chip in with some thoughts.

Mark I can promise you that out of 1000 applications 999 wouldn't pay any attention to what format you use for your CV as long as it opens. If you chose something really strange then sure but if it is Word or PDF then no one will care and no one is going to reject you because you chose word not PDF (unless possibly you are in a very creative design based sector such as graphic designer or UX/UI designer which I know you are not).

Layout may make some difference definitely, the biggest thing is making it pleasing to the eyes, don't have any huge blocks of text with no paragraphing, don't have weird layouts (columns or boxes) that make it hard to follow logically.

Getting an interview or not comes down a lot of the time to who else applies for a role. I know you mentioned you want to change industries. If you apply for a role and at the same time 2 people from direct competitors in the same industry apply no matter how good your CV looks there is a strong chance you wont get an interview, they will interview the individuals who will walk into the job knowing the sector inside out. If they aren't a cultural fit maybe they come back to you but your counting on other people being rejected.

MattMattMattUK

Mark_Glasses said:

@ MattMattMattUK they're not unskilled jobs, you need certain qualifications for it. Anyone can apply for any job and they often do so my CV could easily get lost amongst those that would never have a hope in hell. A few years ago if I uploaded an updated CV to one of the job boards my phone wouldn't stop ringing the following day. I would have thought I'd at least get an interview somewhere but last year was the first year in my adult life that I didn't have a single job interview.

My understanding is that it is less a the skilled end of the market, but still recruitment is restricted. I generally would not take it to heart, it is not you, it is the jobs market. 

Mark_Glasses

@Elliott.T123 you're right that some companies will be specific about industry experience. I know I wouldn't have got the job I'm in now without industry experience despite the fact I've never understood the industry.

@MattMattMattUK even worse than 2020? I was getting interviews then.