I read as many as 2-3 CVs a month (I'm kidding but only a little) so that of course makes me an expert. I'm doing it mostly for interview preparation. That's important caveat because my motivations are different from typical recruiter - I don't get to preselect people.
-
-
Prikaži ovu nit
-
This is why I won't tell what should be removed from the CVs. I know, some of the stuff is there to woo not terribly technical recruiters. Instead I will tell you what is useful for me and how you get better interview experience (it's on both of us, not just me).
Prikaži ovu nit -
First of all - person who told you that CV should fit on one page. Find that person and do horrible harm to him/her. Short CV won't help you in any way but will make my job harder. As long as the CVs is shorter than 5 pages I'm ok with that - as long as I can find relevant info.
Prikaži ovu nit -
Now, let's go down to specifics. Languages. People like to put 15 different ones including 6502 Assembly they have used 25+ years ago. First of all - tell me ones that you activly use today and separate it into writing (I code in python/go/c) and reading (like java for me).
Prikaži ovu nit -
On topic of languages - it is helpful if you describe some projects you've written in given language. It's great that you know haskell but if all you wrote was hanoi towers on your second uni year picture me unimpressed. Same applies to tools.
Prikaži ovu nit -
I don't give a crap if you are using wireshark, tcpdump and ettercap unless I know what are you using those tools for. People nowadays say - I use afl. Great - what for? Unless yo udescribe it I will just assume you run it once on demo binary.
Prikaži ovu nit -
Recent trend is to list all the CTFs you took part in plus of course your scoreboard position. Again, it doesn't tell me anything. Once I took part in one and was responsible for 1/4 of the point team took. All I did was solving all trivia questions. Much hacker. So wow.
Prikaži ovu nit -
Now - what I really like to see in the CVs is some nice description of projects you've participated in and some real problems you've solved in your career (or university - that counts to). How does it help you? You will get better suited interview question that you can ace.
Prikaži ovu nit -
Closing words - hobby. If you don't have an interesting one, don't write anything. I don't want to see: music, books, traveling. Geting an interesting hobby will help you in life in general. Just please, for the love of god, don't pick woodworking.
Prikaži ovu nit
Kraj razgovora
Novi razgovor -
Čini se da učitavanje traje već neko vrijeme.
Twitter je možda preopterećen ili ima kratkotrajnih poteškoća u radu. Pokušajte ponovno ili potražite dodatne informacije u odjeljku Status Twittera.