If you are looking for CV writing advice on the internet, be careful.   It is surprising how many sites that contain CV writing advice don’t bother to update their copy.  What they are advising may have been true once, but times change and you need to be sure that the advice you are reading is relevant to the modern jobs market. 

It is, of course, a good idea to seek advice from a number of sources, so that you can get a balanced view of what is being advised. That is the best way to form your own opinions.   But not even CV writing sites can be relied upon to be authoritative, as many of the more recent ones that have sprung up are run by people whose core skill is not in CV writing at all, but in marketing.   

If you can understand the logic behind what is being suggested, that is a very good start.   Remember that the CV you are producing is not for your satisfaction, but for use by a stranger who knows nothing about you.   If they are looking to fill a vacancy in their Company, what do you think they might like to know about the candidates and how are they likely to want the CV presented?   If you use a bit of common sense and logic you won’t go far wrong, but just don’t fall into the trap of believing that just because you saw it on a website it is necessarily true. 

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