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Ask HN: What's bad about my CV?

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Hello HN,

I'd really be very happy if I could get some feedback (hopefully negative) about what's bad on my CV and could be improved.

http://www.ifnotequal.com/hacker-news-cv.pdf

Any and all advise is very welcome. Thank you.

Kind regards, Shanee Vanstone.

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Quick Glance: 1. Too Cluttered. 2. Information flow is not smooth. For example, you spoke first about technical skills and on the next paragraph, you jumped over to administrative skills, then back to technical again on the 3rd paragraph. 3. On one of your experiences, you mentioned about being second in command. Unless this is a military organization, hierarchy does not spell much of a difference. 4. Your CV does not provide insight nor complete focus on what value you could actually bring to the company which would potentially hire you. 5. Resume overall lacks appeal which would entice anyone to continue reading after the first few paragraphs. 6. You mentioned something about A Levels. What A Level? Of course I know you are mentioning about your education, but having completed a course does not completely translate to being able to deliver value. 7. Projects - this seems to be a mixture of spaghetti story telling. Hard to tell whether the story about the project is still on the same project or is already about another project.

Hope that helps.

Thank you. That does help. I didn't really see that before but looking at it now that does all make sense.

I'll try to rewrite it with your suggestions in mind and focusing only on C++ or JavaScript (rather than both).

Thanks.

You need to decide on a role, you can't say either C++ or Javascript. If you want that then have two seperate CVs, one for javascript and one for C++

Hello. You might be hell banned. You reply to my message shows up as [dead] and most people won't be able to see it.

You're right. I wasn't sure how necessary that was (and obviously it's extra time).

But it is needed. I'll rewrite into two CVs.

Thank you.

Without knowing what kind of role you're aiming for this is pretty much impossible to answer.

Sorry. It's fairly generic.

I'm aiming for something backend(ish). Either C(++) or JavaScript/Node.js/PHP on the backend (I feel there's not much more I want to learn with CSS).

All I do at the moment is rearrange the order of skills for a job I'm applying to. Would you're advise be that I should have an independent CV for each type of job I apply for?

Thank you for replying so quickly.

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