2 Apr
2021
2 Apr
'21
11:42 a.m.
Hello,
Allow-me a couple of comments on this. First of all, this is certainly not universally
true. During our own recruiting drives I noticed a couple of things and have some
comments:
- the 1-page CV came virtually all from FR-educated candidates. People with DE or EN have
invariably longer and also more readable CVs (you can only stuff so much on a page). I
would expect that different recruiters (with different background) react very differently
to short or "reasonably long" CVs.
- europass templates help in having an easy to read, standard approach. Maybe worth
considering.
- length and form should correlate with the experience you have, and also the experience
requested by the job offer: it is indeed pointless to send a 5-page CV for a beginners
job.
Personally I prefer explicit CVs that have everything in it that I need to know.
Conducting an interview takes a lot of time, so the bar to that is high, and it is only
the CV and cover letter that can make you pass that. And again, the context matters: for
jobs with (expected) hundreds of applicants CV are probably treated differently than for
jobs with only a handful.
In case of doubt: common sense!
Best,
Gilles
On 2 Apr 2021, at 11:27 , Gökdağ Göktepe
<gokdag.goktepe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Being unemployed for sometime and being accepted to an employment program where some well
known HR recruiters from Lux presented how to prep CV, pitch talk etc along with web
development course and being able to found a job in the IT sector afterwards I would
suggest you to keep your CV preferably one page if not possible max two pages.
Keep your skills on the upper part of your cv and keep them short. No recruiter will read
a CV more than a page. If they are interested in your skills they will do monitoring talk
or email screening (or whatever they call these nowadays).
Try to keep the CV in multiple columns in order to use the layout as effectively as
possible. So then the recruiter can see all that is necessary at a glance.