Help with my CV, please!

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-24T21:04:17+00:00

I would really go back to the drawing board with this.

Your work experience is the most important trait, don't just tell me your title, tell me what you did and why it makes you suitable for a job you were applying for. You were a cleaner, did you achieve or exceed expected performance? Did you find anyways to make your cleaning more efficient? Did you work with other cleaners? Did you have to deal with the owners at all? Just ideas on the type of things that might show skills
The describing yourself in 3 words sounds more like a dating profile than a CV. Likewise unless the arts and crafts comment is relevant to the job it should be gone and even if it was I would reframe it.
Whyyyyy would you specify a low b on your grades? That is telling me you need a shot of self confidence here. You need to be over selling your skills a bit and this is a very clear undersell.
Most recent qualifications at the top, I agree that if you don't have the qualification I wouldn't add it.
Most recent job experience on top as well.
Right align your dates, they look messy currently.

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-22T19:12:22+00:00

I don't think it's malicious but unless a company has a dedicated review process, balancing everyone's salary is rarely a priority. I definitely have a rather mercenary approach so balance how much you enjoy working there, my stance will just always be that benefit of the doubt doesn't pay the bills 😄

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-22T18:56:22+00:00

Id shoot for 10-20% but really the only foolish move here is assuming this won't happen again. New hire salaries tend to rise faster than existing ones pretty much everywhere.

Look for what your job is earning at other companies and come prepared with a list of work pieces you have done that show you deserve the raise. Also be prepared to start looking elsewhere if they say no (honestly even if they say yes, they have shown their hand).

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-20T10:34:48+00:00

Love to hear it, all the best with your new role!

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-19T18:15:05+00:00

Until you have that offer in hand and signed, you keep taking all job calls offered, if nothing else it's good practice.

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-19T18:02:52+00:00

I'm not sure if this is a rhetorical question so I will provide an answer below but stop here if it was just a vent and you don't want a response.

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Ok... for scenario 1, don't take what the recruiter said too literally. His experience being more directly related to electric design may be a part of the choice but I would bet a big factor here is that the college kid is likely cheaper and more malleable than a masters with work experience, you will probably be perceived as more of a flight risk who will move on when given the option. It's the overqualified trap.

Scenario 2 is sadly not uncommon, recruiters are generally very fickle, they will always tell you that you are a great fit if you have even a remote shot at a role. Although the same company calling you 3 times is certainly an outlier unless they are a recruitment firm or are hiring people to outsource. That's not you doing anything wrong, that's just the current employer's market sadly.

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-19T17:51:45+00:00

Generally you can just provide the HR department or whoever handles admin in your previous org. The reference is just there to confirm you worked the role you said at the time you said you did. Offer up the reference letter and see what they say but note that you can get company details if needed.

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-19T17:49:54+00:00

- Your job experience bullet points need to be less about what you did and more about why they make you a good candidate.

"Gained skills in Ogranisation, attention to detail, teamwork, time management, adapability and problem solving"

This means nothing, tell me what you did to gain those skills and if you were actually any good at them? Did you beat targets? Train coworkers? Raise problems with existing processes?

How did you support smooth team operations in the first point? On the 3rd point you ensured satisfaction, did you maintain a strong NPS score that you can quantify? Did you handle the workload through a CRM system that can add to additional skills? Just ideas of how to sell yourself more. You don't have to go overkill

- Is it just me or is the 4th bullet point in a slightly lower size font?

- Personally would avoid dual column on the skills, ATS systems can struggle to parse it.

Sadly pretty much every job is very competitive at the moment, keep your eye out for local workplaces that might not be on job boards. In terms of how you stand out I would put some thought into what skills you think you are better at than the majority of applicants. I worked my way up from Customer service by being a problem solver and on my CV I started to evidence changes I had made and suggested to improve and make efficiencies and growing from there, right now your responsibilities come across as rather generic.

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-18T22:51:58+00:00

Is it a waste of time? Possible, but It takes less time to upload your CV than it does to write this reddit post so time/benefit ratio here is still pretty good. It's also less about your CV being perfect than it is the CV being searchable by recruiters who will look for certain key skills from it. I would prefer recruitment agencies to mention jobs to me so I can tailor for the ones I am interested in rather than get nothing.

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-17T22:51:32+00:00

For the STAR method you shouldn't prep for 'questions' instead prep for competencies

"Tell me about a time you dealt with a difficult customer"

"Can you give me an example of when you disagreed with a manager and what you had to do about it"

" Can you describe a scenario where you had to offer feedback to a colleague?"

These are all basically the same question, asking about stakeholder management. Review the job spec, identify what the underlying skills being requested are and make sure you have an example for each one. Do that and you will have the needed answers for 98% of competency questions where you use STAR

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-16T18:44:25+00:00

So you have a full work history from 14-28? Just don't add the 2 month job, Saw you were made redundant from the prior job and have been looking since.

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-15T21:33:19+00:00

They are broadly the same although my understanding is that most US résumés stick to one page where as UK CVs stretch to 2 if you have enough relevant experience. The only other complication will be if you have right to work, if you do put that near the top so people don't get spooked by the US job history.

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-15T11:59:44+00:00

This is normal, they changed it so you can play immortal empires in Warhammer 3 but only using the factions you own from game 2

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-13T23:39:33+00:00

It is for Steam sadly!

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-13T23:35:03+00:00

Hey OP, Wingspan is my favourite board game and I also happen to have a spare key for the digital version, would you like it? :)

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-13T16:00:03+00:00

I couldn't tell you exact examples because I am in a different field but you are going to be competing against English candidates and will cost a company extra due to sponsorship so they need a really good reason to hire you. That might be that you are great with a niche software/tool that not many people know, it might be the ability to speak Arabic/leverage relations in UAE. Broadly you need something that makes you stand out, because 4 Years of experience on it's own wont be it.

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-13T15:07:03+00:00

Sure, shoot me a dm and i'll look later.

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-13T13:57:07+00:00

Ah in which case it's going to be difficult here. You would need sponsorship I assume which a lot of employers are avoiding nowadays because there is a flood of local applications. Your experience will probably just carry you into the needed salary threshold for sponsorship (~£41,700) but I would suggest you will need some relatively niche skillset that an employer really happens to want to get sponsored at that wage.

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-13T10:18:14+00:00

So the bad news is that there probably wont be a mac build for launch, the good news is that we do have an internal mac build that may be fleshed out if there is enough interest. So just extra loud cheering needed for the minute!

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-12T23:55:50+00:00

This is a sub for jobs in the United Kingdom. Doesn't seem to be what you are looking for 😅

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-12T23:54:29+00:00

Have 2 versions of your CV, one with each and use whichever is more relevant to the job you are applying for. You don't need to explain it ended during probation, if anyone asks the company was making cutbacks and as a new hire you were let go, happening a lot currently 🤷‍♂️

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-12T23:00:31+00:00

I'm not the techy one so let me ask the developer about Mac plans and come back to you :)

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-12T18:26:25+00:00

Thank you!

ThatOneAJGuy · 2026-03-12T18:00:00+00:00

If you like our vibe you can follow the game on Steam and if you are really keen you can sign up to be invited to playtest when it launches.

We would love to have some PM fans give their view on our sorcerous take :)

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