How do you know or may not know: I will help students and young professionals in building a CV.
I've been doing this for 4 months now and during that time I have helped 25+ students take their CV to the next level!
During this time, I had the opportunity to see the most common mistakes people make in the CV.
Today we look at the three most common mistakes you need to avoid if you want to land after the application 🔮 🔮
1. Evaluating your skill level
Now and then I see someone appreciates their level of skills:
This is generally the worst thing you can do with your CV:
- You underestimate yourself!
- Do not try to work for recruiters, these people have education and receive wages for choosing the right skills!
- The real value is not in the suggestion that your Python programming skills are 3/5. First, you introduce the prejudices in the head of the recruiter, which when they weigh only 5/5 pythonists (???)
Please refrain from the assumptions about your technical skills!
However, it is still acceptable to provide your level of language knowledge in the following format:
Italy (advanced) or English (indigenous)
2. Providing personal information
It is no secret that all people have an idea of any processed information.
The same goes for personnel professionals who will review your CVs: they are too subconsciously subconsciously on the basis of all the information they receive.
This means that by increasing personal information in your CV (eg age, citizenship, gender, residence status), you will increase the reviewer's options.
As an applicant for your job, it is to make yourself as attractive as possible.
By limiting your CV personal information, you do exactly that! 🗽
If you want to know more about building a good CV, see my article
3. Large pieces of text
It's your enemy!
Members of the HR Department of any company receive thousands of applications for each job post.
Although 99% of them filter out ATS (application tracking systems), they will still be omitted to review dozens of CVs by the end of the day.
This means that your CV is likely to have a impression of 10-30 seconds.
If the CV is full of bullet points, easy to read, this time is spent on learning valuable information about the candidate.
But if your CV is a giant text junk, this time is spent before reading the first rows before it throws it away 🚧
This is it today!
