Given all the sensible advice available on forums such as this, I was staggered at how bad many contractor CVs were that I reviewed whilst trying to recruit PMs. For example:
CVs up to 10 pages long - who is going to read all that waffle?
CVs that list dozens of bland sounding responsibilities but hardly anything about tangible achievements or little in the way of context e.g. project size.
Most frustratingly of all is being sent these types of CVs in the first place by agents. It's almost as if they matched on a single keyword search and then just forwarded the CV verbatim. Surely they must know these CVs look terrible (even if the candidate might actually be fairly good?)
I was so desperate for one particular role that I actually did end up reading some of these lengthy CVs but it was painful!
This happened with multiple agencies and roles. My only thought was that as the roles were in quite specialist/in demand business areas, the candidates and agencies can get away with it because subconsciously they know they are in demand so don't have to try too hard.
CVs up to 10 pages long - who is going to read all that waffle?
CVs that list dozens of bland sounding responsibilities but hardly anything about tangible achievements or little in the way of context e.g. project size.
Most frustratingly of all is being sent these types of CVs in the first place by agents. It's almost as if they matched on a single keyword search and then just forwarded the CV verbatim. Surely they must know these CVs look terrible (even if the candidate might actually be fairly good?)
I was so desperate for one particular role that I actually did end up reading some of these lengthy CVs but it was painful!
This happened with multiple agencies and roles. My only thought was that as the roles were in quite specialist/in demand business areas, the candidates and agencies can get away with it because subconsciously they know they are in demand so don't have to try too hard.
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