I'm an experienced technical recruiter based in the UK and due to the uprise in offers of assistance to this site I've decided to add my own two cents.<p>I'm willing to analyse your CV and offer constructive feedback on potential content alterations, layout, etc.<p>The logical critic in you will assume I'm offering to do this in order to generate leads or recruits and to counter-act that, I have no problem with you removing your personal details and even censoring company names.<p>As for me, I have a degree in Software Development & Web Design and my target market is London and the South East. I've been in recruitment for a few years now and I have a 1st class understanding of the market. My highest fee generating clients are insurance companies & financial institutions.<p>I will be doing this during my spare time and at the weekend so if the response is significant then be patient with me!<p>edit:
ATTENTION: DUE TO AN OVERWHELMING RESPONSE I CAN NO LONGER ACCEPT ANY FURTHER CV'S FOR NOW. I WILL RESPOND TO EVERYONE WHO HAS GONE TO THE EFFORT OF EMAILING ME SO FAR.
22 CV's received so far!<p>Looks like I'm going to be kept busy. I will do my absolute best to respond to each and every one of you but you will need to be patient.<p>Anyone else looking to send me a CV, please fire away but it would help if you could include info on what you would like me to focus on, eg. are you concerned about specific content, is it the layout or format that you feel is letting you down, etc.<p>UPDATE:<p>That figure has now doubled and I'm looking at over 40 CV's in my inbox. I'll get started on them tonight and see how many I get through.
This is great and I think I can help as well from a slightly different view point(not to steal any thunder!).<p>I'm head of development for a search related company and as part of my role review all incoming CV's(with advice from one of my senior devs) as well as handle the most of the interviews.<p>If you'd like two perspectives(Recruiter who will work to get you an interview and HoD who will ultimately hire you) feel free to send them over to me as well. My email is in my profile though I can only honestly help if you're targeting development roles.<p>Same disclaimer about time though, I will try to do any I get through over the next couple of nights though.<p>Edit: If you could include what type of role you are targetting(tech startup, agency, finance, etc) it would really help with my advice.
I'm think my CV is pretty well polished, but I've never asked for professional feedback on it, so let me know what you think: <a href="http://www.puremango.co.uk/2009/08/php-cv/" rel="nofollow">http://www.puremango.co.uk/2009/08/php-cv/</a><p>I'm particularly interested in whether you think the order of sections (education->work->general->personal) works, and whether my copy sells.<p>Thanks for the offer!<p>PS: I'm not looking for work at the moment, so please prioritise my request lower than those who are currently seeking.
If you want to make notes directly on peoples' resumes, you can use crocodoc (YC W2010) to view and mark them up online. (Disclaimer: I'm one of the co-founders!)<p>Just forward their emails (w/ attachments) to upload@crocodoc.com, or upload them directly through crocodoc.com. Either way you'll receive a unique crocodoc URL you can use to view, mark up, and share each resume with its creator.<p>Would love to hear your feedback if you end up giving this a try!<p>Note: You don't need to create a crocodoc account to use the service (which is free), but I'd suggest doing so to keep track of all the resumes it looks like you'll be working on :)<p>Example document: <a href="https://crocodoc.com/demo1" rel="nofollow">https://crocodoc.com/demo1</a> (note: since this is a demo document your changes won't actually be saved)
Does anyone have any recommendations for paid services that do this sort of thing?<p>KoZeN's offer to review CV's is really (really) nice, but with well over 40 to read, his offer won't likely meet the demand.<p>I've thought a few times that there must be something wrong with my resume and I'd like to have it reviewed professionally.<p>Has anyone paid to have their resume reviewed? If so, where, how much did it cost and was it worth it?<p>Google brings up plenty of options, but I'm nervous to use any of them for fear that they may not have experience in tech / I.T. / programming or worse, that they'll simply find a couple of grammar mistakes and charge me a few hundred dollars.<p>Any help?
Out of interest, as a recruiter, what did you think of the two 'reverse job application' posts?<p>first:<p><a href="http://www.reversejobapplication.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reversejobapplication.com/</a><p>and in response:<p><a href="http://www.thejohnnybrown.com/?p=21" rel="nofollow">http://www.thejohnnybrown.com/?p=21</a>
Thanks a lot for doing this. Here is mine<p><a href="http://snikolov.weebly.com/uploads/3/9/0/4/3904101/snikolov-resume-oct2010.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://snikolov.weebly.com/uploads/3/9/0/4/3904101/snikolov-...</a><p>if you or anyone else has time to take a look. My goal with the colors was to make it scan-able by highlighting where I worked as well as approximate position titles and letting gray-colored description stay in the background. But it might also be too harsh on the eyes.<p>Another concern is having too many things and not saying very much about any one of them. I am a student, and many companies seem to want to hire people who get things done for internships, rather than people with very specific skills. So I want my message to be "I've done things", rather than "I've done these very specific things that your job description lists." Is this misguided? Should I take certain parts of it out depending on where I am applying?<p>Thanks again.
Thanks for your offer!<p>Currently I do not really have a CV anymore, I link to my linkedin or make a dump of my linkedin to doc/pdf.<p>What do you think of this practice?<p>Anyone else who has opinions on "moving the CV to linkedin"?
What a coincidence! A few days ago I had some ideas about CV reviewing, and since you're a recruiter, could you provide some feedback if the service would be useful? :) <a href="http://www.inerciasensorial.com.br/2010/10/14/geral/crowd-review-a-resume/" rel="nofollow">http://www.inerciasensorial.com.br/2010/10/14/geral/crowd-re...</a>
Over 200 CV's received so far so can I ask that you don't submit any more new requests?<p>I intend on responding to everyone who has emailed me up until now and I am going through each request chronologically.<p>Thank you so much for all your messages of support.
Great idea and offer -- thanks for putting this forward, KoZeN. I sent my CV over, but I figure I'll throw it up here too; more feedback is always a Good Thing (TM). <a href="http://daeken.github.com/CV.html" rel="nofollow">http://daeken.github.com/CV.html</a> <a href="http://daeken.github.com/CV.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://daeken.github.com/CV.pdf</a><p>I recently rewrote it from scratch, as my previous CV was simply thrown together when applying for a random job. When I decided to put myself on the job market seriously, I figured I'd go ahead and spiff it up a bit.
Great offer. Perhaps a small idea for those looking to put an original element in their CV that I used successfully:<p>Put your Skills in as a Tagcloud. Strong skills get a bigger fontsize than minor skills. Additionally I used grey tones to indicate which skills have been used more recently and which are older (more grey than black, paling so to speak.)<p>It is somewhat daring, because not necessarily everyone gets tagclouds yet - but I was invited quite a few times for the tag cloud to interviews.
Thanks very much for this. I've never had much luck with recruiters and my C.V so any feedback you have would be greatly appreciated.<p>I've also decided to upload it here. <a href="http://www.alanhollis.com/Alan_Hollis.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.alanhollis.com/Alan_Hollis.pdf</a><p>Please note I'm not actively seeking employment at the moment but might as well take advantage of the opportunity to get some constructive criticism whilst it's here.
I remember <a href="http://www.razume.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.razume.com/</a> being a useful (and free) service back in 2008, where many <i>professional</i> recruiters would give visual feedback and good advice. Not sure what it is like now (seems more crowd-sourced), but maybe be worth a try.
Great offer !
Here is mine : <a href="http://cv.david.cx" rel="nofollow">http://cv.david.cx</a><p>Also, I'm a French citizen seeking employment in the US (Orlando, Florida to be precise), do you have some special advice for what I should change in my CV in regard to this ?
do you have any generally applicable advice based on your past experience and the responses you've received so far?<p>i'm attempting to write my first CV as a developer applying for an open position and am feeling a bit overwhelmed.<p>thanks for the offering up your expertise!
Giving private feedback seems like a wasted opportunity to share your knowledge widely. Would you consider publishing somewhere both the CVs and your assessments, after removing personal data and companies names? Thanks.
I am actually studying financial mathematics, so my resume might be up your alley, www.ivanbercovich.com/resume. I have been working on this piece of paper for quite some time, so I hope you like it.