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What is your experience of using a free CV review service?
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Job boards offer a free CV review. I wondered if these are AI generated reviews or if you liaise with a person? What do they usually cover and have you found them useful (big improvement in employer interest after using one)
I imagine the upselling is quite aggressive, is it easy to duck out of this?
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CV Reviews: Yes or no, and the best place to get one?
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Throwaway as people I work with use Reddit.
I'm always half looking for other job opportunities (I believe it's always useful to know what the market is doing), and I think my CV is pretty good. However, I have never had it reviewed by a professional or someone in the know. Is it worth getting one done just to tidy it up and ensure there isn't anything included that shouldn't be?
I'm in IT (System Admin/Support Engineer) if that makes a difference.
Fuller CV will do one over the phone for free but I don't think I need that much detail. They charge £12 for an email based review but just wanted to see if anybody else has any recommendations.
Thanks in advance everyone.
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I'll do it for free. former IT manager from a recruitment company. Best of both worlds and i'm good at it -honestly. Take your personal info off if you want. PM me for contacts.
i am abroad though with sporadic email access so might take a a few days.
Please review my CV / Lebenslauf
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EDIT Thank you all for your help, especially to u/Onioner because s/he kept coming back with more answers and suggestions. Here's my updated version, https://imgur.com/wx8Pzkf, which incorporates a lot of the comments you all made and fits on two pages. I'm off to sleep now, and the fair starts early Tuesday morning. Wish me luck.
I recently moved to Germany and have just recently created a German version of my CV. I would appreciate any feedback as I am attending a job fair this week.
Here's my CV: https://imgur.com/566GuDr.
There are three issues I would love help with:
- What to call myself. I'm a US-trained lawyer. That means I have a Juris Doctor degree, passed a state bar exam, and normally put an ", Esquire" after my name. None of that makes sense here. A friend suggested I use what I have now.
- Length. I know the final version should be a maximum of 2 pages. I'm not sure what to cut: oldest jobs or my oldest presentations/publications.
- Proofreading. I can review the English, but does the German sound Ok? For example, is "Name und Berufsbezeichnung" ok or weird sounding? Also, should I include a signature?
Top Comment: Some basic suggestions: Use one language Group your consultations together (4/16-12/17) Study times need the months of begin and end Bar exam could be placed separatly under "Certifications" "Transparency Resource Center": President and Founder - What happend to it? What did it do? How many People where there? Are there any results of the work? This just looks strange... Intern, Clerk and Law Student Advocate (5/09-1/11) should be separated from "Berufliche Laufbahn". Also: Do you have a driving license? What nationality do you have?
Electronics Student needs help with CV Review! Can't add more details! Any other advices and ideas will be appreacited!
Main Post: Electronics Student needs help with CV Review! Can't add more details! Any other advices and ideas will be appreacited!
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Projects? Relevant coursework? Your cv tells me nothing about what you can actually do.
On "Communication" and "Management", did you do something that actually made you show those skills off? If yes, type it out on your resume.
edit: grammar
Self-Taught iOS Developer CV Review : resumes
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Resume review ( and suggestions)
Main Post: Resume review ( and suggestions)
Top Comment: I really have no clue when it comes to resume writing and still trying to figure it out myself. But this blog https://resume.io/blog/functional-resume helped me out trying to figure what employers were looking for. Not sayin, just sayin.
Reddit Resume - Get Your Resume Reviewed
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CV Review : r/PinoyProgrammer
Main Post: CV Review : r/PinoyProgrammer
Reddit - The heart of the internet
Main Post: Reddit - The heart of the internet
I'm an ex-recruiter for some of the top companies in the world. I've screened tens of thousands of resumes, and today I published my preferred resume format, free to download as a Word doc, along with some general resume advice.
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December 2022 edit: OP here (Colin at Sheets & Giggles). By popular demand, I made a Google Doc for people without MS Word, and I immortalized this post and free template for posterity off Reddit at SheetsResume.com. As layoffs mount (yet again), I also wanted to highlight Part 2 of this post (my 10 best job hunting FAQs / advice).
I can't believe it's been almost 5 years since I wrote this! My free resume template (Word doc download link) has been downloaded millions of times, and thousands of people have messaged me to let me know it helped them find jobs and change career trajectories, which I'm just so so happy about. When I wrote this in Feb 2018, S&G was still months away from shipping its first box of eucalyptus sheets, and now we've shipped hundreds of thousands of orders... and even have our own mattress! Crazy what can happen in a few years. If you have questions, I still try to answer PMs and new comments as often as I can, and feel free to connect on LinkedIn (mention Reddit!). Happy holidays, and see you again in 2 years when I inevitably make another edit! Much love to you all.
April 5, 2020 edit: I've been getting more PMs and messages about this post lately (like this awesome one last night sent to Sheets & Giggles' IG), possibly from the historic layoffs in the US due to COVID–19. Whether or not that's the case for you, I sincerely hope this resume format helps you find a better job than you had going into this mess. In addition to having S&G help how we can, I'm going to do my best to answer Reddit PMs and emails that come in re: job hunting during April as people face this crisis. (Please at least edit your resume into my format below before asking me for a critique, as my first advice to anyone who hasn't will be to guide you to my format.) All my best to you and yours, and I hope you're all staying safe out there.
11/17/2018 last edit (psyche): I'm working 16+ hour days as CEO of Sheets & Giggles nowadays, so I unfortunately don't have time to reply to PMs (get about 10 a day still). So sorry! If you have more questions, please see this follow-up thread with FAQs I did a couple months ago. Good luck everyone! - Colin at S&G
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There was a recent post on Reddit where someone was lamenting that they had sent out dozens of applications, but hadn't heard back from anyone. I commented and told them they probably had a bad resume format and to PM me with it so I could review it for them, and about 50 other redditors ended up sending me their resumes to review. I don't have time to do all of them, so I decided to write this post and share a downloadable editable Word doc resume format in the hope that it fulfills my personal obligations (note: delete the footer before sending out!). Here's a preview of the resume.
I'll keep it short and sweet, and hopefully many of you find this useful.
Source: This quick excerpt is from a longer blog on my website. My company (Sheets & Giggles) makes sustainable eucalyptus bedding, so this is a little out there.
General resume advice:
- Use a professional-looking gmail, outlook, or personal domain email address. Delete your hotmail with extreme prejudice.
- Don't put an objective section or summary. It'll be skipped, and it's space that can be used better.
- Unless you have 20+ years' experience, make it 1 page. You can do it.
- Don't put your full address. "City, State" is enough.
- Name your resume "FirstName LastName Resume" and that's it. Never submit it with "(Project Management)" or "Final" or "2018" or literally anything else in the file name.
- If emailing your resume, always submit it as a PDF, never as a Word doc. You never know how wonky a Word doc will look on someone else's machine. If uploading to an online application that uses resume parsing software, you can upload the Word doc as well or if it's required to do so.
- Try to read it in 10 seconds or less and see what you take away from it. That's about the initial screen time before someone makes an initial up/down decision, so you'll want to examine it from that perspective.
- Interests are important because it gives the interviewer something to connect with you on, and it makes you more than just a faceless resume. If you put Seinfeld, I promise someone will ask you what your favorite episode of Seinfeld is (mine's the Soup Nazi).
That's the most important stuff. Here's that resume template download link again. If you have more questions about job hunting, resumes, or career advice in general, just PM me and I'll try to get back to you before long.
Edit: damn, thanks for the gold! Super glad this advice is helping so many people; the comments have totally made my day.
Edit 2: out and about so trying to respond to everyone on mobile, but it's slow going. I'll get back to all questions in comments asap.
Edit 3: my inbox is ruined, but having a blast helping everyone with their specific questions. Keep firing away.
Sunday edit: coming on 24 hours and the questions are still rolling in! I'm slammed today running a photoshoot for my company (the company on the resume template, Sheets & Giggles), so I'll jump back in when I can later. Lots of PMs to sort through too!
Edit 5: See how clean those sheets are? Accidentally shot a Tide ad.
Monday night edit: still answering PMs and comments :)! Hit me up anytime with your job hunting questions.
Wednesday edit: over the last few days, I've responded to probably 500+ combined questions in the comments and PMs. PMs still rolling in. I think I'm going to make a "resume and job hunting FAQ" post based on these questions!
02/27/2018 edit: PMs and comments still coming in, and I'm not even kidding when I say that I've had at least 10 people message me telling me they've gotten a slew of interviews since they switched their format, and two people have now told me they found jobs after switching to this format in the week and a half since I posted this. Unbelievable, makes me so happy.
03/28/18 edit: Still owe a couple dozen more PM responses, bear with me. Also just got a few more messages from people describing how they found a job after switching to this template! Makes my day every time I get that message.
04/30/2018 edit: I'll be posting something soon that answers all the resume and job hunting FAQs I've gotten from about 1,000 PMs! Have tried to help everyone, but my apologies if I haven't had time to get back to your particular message / question. Will link it here in one last edit when it's live on this sub!
05.07.2018 edit: Part Deux is live! Click here for resume FAQs and job hunting advice.
05/19/2018 edit: About 10 20 dozens hundreds thousands of people have now messaged me saying they've gotten a job thanks to this post after previously spending months looking to no avail. Can't describe how happy that makes me.
07/03/2018 edit: I'm sorry if I don't respond to your PM; it's just too much volume to handle. I've tried to help as many people as I can with these two posts, and I'll respond to PMs randomly but as often as I can!
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This is the first time I’ve seen a professional recommend putting personal interests on a resume. Seeing as how I’m going on a couple years with no offers, I suppose I have nothing to lose by trying it out.