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CV layout

  • 24-03-2005 5:50am
    #1
    PullMyFinger!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭


    This has prob been done a few times on this forum of Boards but could anyone give me the layout for your common CV. Im looking at a friends here and the footnote (his selling point) looks a bit OTT.


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  • #2
    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    if you want constructive critisisms on this perticular CV, then post up in a zip file and we can have a look.
    otherwise, there is a link in the stickied 'helpful links' thread on the main forum page.
    it has many ideas for CV's, and will give you a good general overview of CV presentation, content etc.

    by the way, ive never heard of a footnote in a CV. and why would you only have your main selling points in a footnote?
    the whole CV is a sales tool, why not use the whole thing?
    after all, if the reader doesnt get as far as the footnote becuase its gone in the bin, whats the point?


  • #3
    PullMyFinger!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭PullMyFinger!


    Cheers, Im going to ask him to take it off, his last words on the CV should actually be said in person to the interviewer.


  • #4
    RicardoSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,264 ✭✭✭RicardoSmith


    PullMyFinger! wrote:
    This has prob been done a few times on this forum of Boards but could anyone give me the layout for your common CV. Im looking at a friends here and the footnote (his selling point) looks a bit OTT.

    You don't want a common CV you want an uncommon CV. But no so uncommon that they your a lunatic.

    Footnote? Are you kidding? Go on post it. Change the details and post it.


  • #5
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,263 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    What the others said basically; the footnote sounds like something one may want to put on a cover letter if the applicant is requested to include one.

    I am sure I am inviting some comments about this, but MS Word provides a very good CV template that looks well - I have used it myself and have received favourable feedback from many interviewers on it. It is the "Contemporary Resume" template.


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