Why are so many contractor CVs still so badly written?

[Contractor101101]

People who say CVs must be short are bulltulipters. A while back my boss's boss's CV was 200 pages long and he had just landed a job as a main board director of a Tier 1 Pharmaceutical.

Little jobs might work with lightweight CVs but big jobs are a different kettle of fish.

But on that level he was already well known and he was headhunted. I bet you anything you want that no-one read beyond the first 3-5 pages of his CV. They read that long because there would have been very few people considered for that position.

I'm in the max 3 pages camp as well. Though currently it's 2 pages because I've changed the margins and the font type so that I can fit as much as possible - while still easy to read.

I don't think your average contractor CV gets read beyond the 2nd page. Especially as tech changes so fast. I put a summary of my skills as the opener, the detail focuses on what is relevant.

[MyUserName]

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People always say not to include a 'Hobbies and Interests' section. But I do, and we often spend a good part of the interview talking about my trips in my VW campervan.

I got into banking due to the MD loving medieval history and the head of programming loving WoW.

[psychocandy]

11 pages FFS.

How many times do you think the scrote agent is going to get past page 2? A clue - never.

Who cares what you did that long ago? No-one...

[vwdan]

People always say not to include a 'Hobbies and Interests' section. But I do, and we often spend a good part of the interview talking about my trips in my VW campervan.

It better be aircooled...!

[northernladuk]

People always say not to include a 'Hobbies and Interests' section. But I do, and we often spend a good part of the interview talking about my trips in my VW campervan.
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But not much use if people interviewing you aren't also in to dogging.