The design is very clean and I’m a big fan of the increased size in font. A CV needs to be as readable as possible and as relevant as possible.
I’d focus the Profile section more on what role you are looking for and what you’re good at. If you can differentiate yourself from the crowd even better. You’d be surprised how hard it is to find a PHP developer that unit tests their code, or a front-end developer that knows anything about source control. I’ve mentioned my views on the sick day notice at the bottom of this post.
You need to show more than three skills on your CV. The way I’ve done it is to list a number of skills that you have, with a brief description and an indicator of how good you are with them in a tidy table. For example, my skills with source control and C# are intermediate and my ability with HTML/CSS is advanced. However, my skills with Subversion are novice.
I would limit your experience to only your current job with a lot of explanation into what you know and what you’ve done. If possible, limit your outside work experience to a few paragraphs at the bottom, with a small reference in experience that you have worked in other industries. Again, to keep relevant ditch the Primary School part.
Finally, I would think twice about putting the phone numbers of references on a web page. If someone is interested in hiring you then they won’t change their mind because they need to ask you for your references. The last thing you want to do is to annoy your references because their number has been signed up to some autodialler scam because a bot found it on your page. I’d go as far as to remove references entirely and say that personal and professional references are available on request.
Typical interviewer crap. I’ve recently done some interviewing myself and quite frankly we’re looking to fill up the time.
Unsurprisingly, interviews are a terrible way to judge whether someone would be good in a job or not, so we look for best practices. Often, we can find someone who can code well by giving them a set of exercises and seeing how they perform, but it’s near impossible to see whether the guy or girl you hire will be a good fit with the company. You could hire a rockstar developer who can code you a XSLT framework in a day, but gets frustrated when he has to work until 5 on Friday because “he works better at night”.
The best advice I can give is to just play the game.
Again, just looking to fill up the time.
To be frank, I wouldn’t add any of that stuff about sick days. It’s like being a Nanny that states “Zero fatalities” on his/her CV. Either way, this is something that a reference would clear up.
) if he is a Lawyer.