Coldfeets:
About that grammatical error of a thing, any day I see any CV with something like:

"Am a graduate of..."

"Am from..."

"Am a professional..."

And so on...

Just know that nothing on earth will make me to hire you!

Just consider yourself automatically disqualified.

Fools.

JARUSHUB:
By Moruf Kolawole Nasir


Errors/mistakes in CVs is also an area which has been widely written on, but most of the articles are filled with conflicting dos and don’ts thus putting job seekers in more confusion. We will attempt to identify some likely ‘dents’ in most job seekers CVs.

1. Copy & Paste Syndrome: Almost all of us are guilty of this, right? I was going through the CV of an applicant for a driver’s job few months ago, the young man can neither read nor write (because he could not fill a form given to him) yet his hobbies are reading and writing. In another case, a very smart looking fresh graduate was referred to me, I asked him questions relating to his course of study he did not do well until I addressed him as Economics graduate when he snapped in to ‘correct’ me that he studied business administration not Economics, I had no choice but to refer him to the CV he gave me. Oh! He exclaimed, “I am sorry I used my friend’s CV, I forgot to change the course of study”. Many job seekers inject their CVs with this kind of virus. Most times your person and background differ from the person whose CV you are adopting.

2. Unnecessary information: Fresh graduates are mostly guilty of this. Just to make sure their CV is ‘full’, they add "viruses" to it. Who says a one page CV cannot do better than two pages? What business of the recruiter is your home town or your religious denomination? He will find out those if he needs them before hiring you.

3. The‘Jokey’ email address: Yeah! The content of your email address matters. Trust me, nobody will be comfortable sending interview invitation to beerlover@yahoo.com or hotlips@gmail.com for a position. Check if your email address qualifies for ‘jockey’ one and rid your CV of that virus.

4. Incorrect/Insufficient Personal/Contact Details: While going through some CVs for the post of ICT manager many months ago, I saw a very good CV (a candidate with the requisite experience and skills for the job), I went back to the top of the CV to invite him for interview, lo and behold! His contact information was missing. Other job seekers carelessly miss a letter or sign in their email addresses. While yet another set omit a number or mix numbers up in their contact phone numbers. All these are bottle necks to invitations for interviews.

5. Design and format: I once saw a CV so nicely designed that I stopped for a while to look at the aesthetic value of the CV. Guess what? The aesthetics drew my attention away from the content of the CV and as such the owner missed the opportunity of having the content of his CV assessed. Similarly, some CVs are badly formatted (using different font style inappropriately) that one wonders if they were not actually designed to put the recruiter off. These are viruses to CVs.

6. Telling Lies in your CV: It is unfortunate that the competition in the labour market makes most job seeker stoop so low to the extent of putting false information in their CVs. Unfortunately for them, experienced HR professionals are good at identifying such lies.

Coldfeets:
About that grammatical error of a thing, any day I see any CV with something like:

"Am a graduate of..."

"Am from..."

"Am a professional..."

And so on...

Just know that nothing on earth will make me to hire you!

Just consider yourself automatically disqualified.

Fools.

swimmer:
the Op is wrong on a lot of counts.


How in God's name will a nicely formated cv distract you from content except the recruiter is bad at his job!!

then Pictures. i put mine and i get called regularly. if ink is your problem, i dont want to work with you anyway.

other points are passable.

Coldfeets:
About that grammatical error of a thing, any day I see any CV with something like:

"Am a graduate of..."

"Am from..."

"Am a professional..."

And so on...

Just know that nothing on earth will make me to hire you!

Just consider yourself automatically disqualified.

Fools.

Coldfeets:
About that grammatical error of a thing, any day I see any CV with something like:

"Am a graduate of..."

"Am from..."

"Am a professional..."

And so on...

Just know that nothing on earth will make me to hire you!

Just consider yourself automatically disqualified.

Fools.

Coldfeets:
About that grammatical error of a thing, any day I see any CV with something like:

"Am a graduate of..."

"Am from..."

"Am a professional..."

And so on...

Just know that nothing on earth will make me to hire you!

Just consider yourself automatically disqualified.

Fools.

obonujoker:
coldfeets is right..... what's the meaning of "am a graduate", why not start with 'I am a graduate...." or if village people like you , "me am a graduate ..."....?

Iyajelili:
What then should we put in our CV? I just weak for this country of don't do this and don't do that yet nothing to show for it. Employers make you look like an incompetent fool and a failure, the government advises that you become an entrepreneur yet necessary facilities to help float and sustain a business is not in place by the government. Yes, we are half-baked but i know someday we all will be free from this unfounded and baseless accusation against the good people of Nigeria and mostly jobless graduates.

menwongo:

99% of jobs advert had been filled up before advertising them in Nigeria