What does this mean to you?
1) Don’t wax lyric as much as I’ve done so far in getting to my point.
2) Create ‘teasers’ by using words and phrases specific to the area you are skilled in or wish to pursue.
3) Don’t pontificate on how much value you are/were to your current/previous company. Put that in P&L terms. Something someone running a business will also value. And AI can assess and value.
4) Clear your Social Media profile up! Seriously. Or indulge your schizophrenic tendencies and try and hide behind your ‘other’ real online profile. I don’t know if that will work but it could do…
5) All the ‘soft’ stuff like personality, style, attitude etc. That comes in an interview. It could come as a surprise, but I’ve NEVER read a CV that says someone is NOT a team player, enthusiastic, energetic, out the box thinker, highly valued, skilled… and is probably the only person keeping their company together!
6) Write it as a hiring manager who wants to read a CV of someone who was going to help solve their business challenges – think relevant technical skills and quantifiable performance measurements. That means putting it in $$$ by the way. If you didn’t get that, just go back to the technical skills bit.
But honestly if you want to write a 3-8 pager of a CV, Just Go For It! It doesn’t really matter now. It’ll still be read far quicker than you thought about it!
The Age of the CV writer is dead! All hail The Age of the CV writer!
