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Hmmmm ..... James Reed of the Reed Recruitment disagrees with you. Apparently the average time a recruitment consultant spends reading a CV at first scan is 7 seconds. I've now had my CV reviewed by a number of people and each and everyone has said it was too wordy - and it was only 2.5 pages (...

Apparently too many of the systems that read CVs make errors on identifying words in PDF files which means a PDF CV can be canned even if it has the correct key words in it. Thank you.

And just to make you laugh - the discussion I had with this said CV Writer on the intro call included him telling me NEVER to send my CV out in PDF format :lol:

I'm in the market for a new job and a recruitment agent last week suggested I needed to review how my CV was written - "too wordy" was his view. I've been contacted by a CV Writing service but being the cynical old ******* I am I'm not sure it's worth spending money on a new CV. I heard James...