Mines is just literally a list of techs categorised by bulletpoints under a job without any context. It doesn't look terrible, but it was hardly really well de

Mines is just literally a list of techs categorised by bulletpoints under a job without any context. It doesn't look terrible, but it was hardly really well designed. The basis that the HR drone/recruiter (wonderful people or not) is only actually interested or capable of matching buzzwords (when hiring engineers, specifically, but possibly in any field) and thus will pass the resume based on meeting a Ctrl F hit percentage critera. Once the actual hiring manager get the CV, they ask for the context and we discuss it. This largely gives me a reason to talk and thus make people like me, I feel less awkward because I'm not regurgitating my CV, and the hiring person is less bored because they haven't read this. This seems to give them enough context to move to the hiring stage, few ask me any technical questions at this point. I'm a contractor in London with a very high success rate in landing gigs. Your mileage may vary, but try to think about the people who read your CV. > They're busy and have a lot of CVs, thus they want to skim for relevance. > They want 1-2 pages, they're not going to look past this. > If they ask you about a tech on your CV and you don't stand up to scrutiny, they'll feel you're dishonest and you've wasted their time. A little bit of empathy goes a long way.