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- What belongs in a CV — and what does not
A CV is not a biography. It is an answer to a single question: why this person for this job? Anything that does not contribute to that answer takes the space the answer needs.
- One CV per job, not one for all of them
The most common mistake in job hunting is also the most comfortable one: one file, sent thirty times. The result is predictable. A CV meant to fit everything fits nothing particul…
- The first reader of your CV is not a person
At larger employers there is one more step between the moment you press *send* and the moment a person looks at your CV: a program reads the file and breaks it into fields. Name,…