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What tips do you have for CV writing? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 days ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/askuk@feddit.uk

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I've got a young housemate coming to me who is really vulnerable. She needs to do a CV and look for basic admin jobs but my advice is 20 years out of date.

Anyone got any ideas?

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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If she's applying via LinkedIn, then make the most basic Word document that recruiters can automatically parse via their AI parsing tools.

If it's something she's handing out to friends and family, she should pazazz it up a bit to look visually interesting (a skills block with experience bars, a couple of example projects, etc.)

Also mention the word "AI" and "LLM" in there, because why not it's the new "Office" keyword.

Also LinkedIn is terrible as half the jobs are fake (she will see the same jobs being posted month after month as companies try to project growth in this shitty economy), and there are zero ZERO IT jobs in the UK at the moment.

Ask her to reach out to her network. If she went to Uni, that means the Alumni network, or old Uni friends, or old high school friends, and family of course.

If she's not afraid to work outside normal hours, she should consider working for remote companies as other countries seem to somehow still have some money sloshing around

[–] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

That's useful, my advice is so outdated I think IT is always looking for people! That's a really useful comment thanks