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I've tweaked my CV a little, but I'd appreciate advice on how to improve it:

your comments please!

Date: 2003-07-04 04:45 am (UTC)
vampwillow: (Default)
From: [personal profile] vampwillow
I've got a few comments and suggestions to make but will mail them to the address on the cv rather than clutter up LJ...

Date: 2003-07-04 04:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keirf.livejournal.com
Pedantic comments:

tamper resistant hardware which I demonstrated

Either:
tamper resistant hardware, which I demonstrated
Or:
tamper resistant hardware that I demonstrated

on a colocated host

Is 'colocated' a word? Perhaps co-located, or collocated? Not sure about this one, but it's not in my dictionary.

General comments:

Your CV might be considered to be a bit long by some employers. In 10pt in Word it takes up four pages. Perhaps reduce the amount of space devoted to your final year project, your other skills and interests paragraph, your employment history pre-1999, and your summary paragraph. Depending on the job you are applying for you can cut out about 1/3 - 2/3 of the content (as crypto employers won't want to hear much about printing techniques, and so on). Bullet points rather than paragraphs in your employment history might be worth considering too.

Date: 2003-07-04 04:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] conflux.livejournal.com
So what kind of a job are you looking for?

Micromuse are recruiting intermittently but the work it not exactly mathematically challenging, so I can’t really recommend them from a work satisfaction point of view.

Just out of interest...

Date: 2003-07-04 05:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kingginger.livejournal.com
... do you ever wonder what a potential employer may think about your mentioning of Bisexuality etc on your C.V. ?

I know there is equal ops and stuff involved in such issues... But just wondering if you ever wonder... Sorta thing :-)

Other than that - the C.V. looks fine to me, except maybe cutting out some of the earlier jobs for length issues...

Laterz

Date: 2003-07-04 07:18 am (UTC)
babysimon: (Default)
From: [personal profile] babysimon
Write it in MS Word.

No, I'm serious. When I got this job I wrote my CV in KWord and exported it to PDF. Recruitment consultants wouldn't touch it unless it was in MS Word format. I guess because they want to do some "judicious" editing...

Date: 2003-07-04 10:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] atommickbrane.livejournal.com
Hur hur. You said "box of tools".

I have nothing constructive to add because I understood none of your cv. BUT what people said about having a word version all doubleplus good. I'd also start off with the real actual experience at the top rather than a chat - but that's just me. I've only ever hired admin type folk and then I'm lucky if they can even SPEL.

Hem hem.

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