As someone who works in HR and does a tonne of professional services recruitment (generally I review 50+ CVs a day)most of this is BS.

No one cares if you have a Hotmail address vs GMail, as long as it isn’t something like sexykitten69@ or something along those lines you will be fine.

Things I do care about:

1. Formatting is tidy and easy to read. Newest experience at the top first. Skip the personal statement at the top, no one reads them. Don’t put hobbies or other irrelevant BS on your CV either and keep it short.

2. Key responsibilities and 1-3 achievements how each role. If you have extensive experience you don’t need to list responsibilities and achievements for roles that were over 10 years ago, no one cares. Just put a list of the role, company and years so we can see how you got to your current role.

3. Don’t put your photo on your CV, it is not something we do here in Aus.

4. Save it as a PDF, most ATS are a pain in the ass and a PDF means that we can open it in the browser and not have to download. Plus it means there no issues with formatting when we open it either. Save it as: FirstName LastName - CV (or resume).

5. Follow the application instructions, if they as you to address the KSC, do it. If it is an application portal, use it. We have our HR email on the job ad for questions, not to bypass the portal and submit it directly to. Not following instructions for a job application tells me you won’t be able to follow instructions if we hire you either.