If this is not a shitpost, then the obvious answer is to trim that shit down to 1 – 2 pages, and use less words. No recruiter gonna give a shit about more than 1, 2 sentences per category.
Shrink it to 2 pages max. Nobody wants to read a novel…
It’s too long
TL;DR.
No seriously. Keep it to two, MAYBE three A4 pages. Keep itemized lists brief and only do it for the most recent 1-2 positions.
Drop the “About me” section, that goes in the motivation letter. Add DoB and maritial status.
Too long, too cluttered. Trim it to like 10% of this wall of text.
– This seems like a 4-page CV for less than 10 years of experience. Make it 1 page.
– Remove most of the text. Nobody cares about a detailed analysis.
– Remove that “europass” sign at the top.
– Condense language and other skills
– Remove hobbies
– Remove internships when you have more than 3 jobs on your CV
– Shrink down the oversized header
– Fix grammatical, syntactical, and spelling mistakes
There is absolutely no reason to have a CV longer than 2 pages.
Remove the hobbies section. Absolutely never.
Remove the skills section. Half of it is so vague as to be meaningless – what does “collaborate to support the administration” even mean. Skills need to be evidenced and linked to particular things you’ve done in your job.
Remove the language section. They’ll get you speak English if the whole CV is in English. Alternatively list it in the education section. With a single line. C2 English. They’ll get that’s very good, you don’t need to separate it out so much into reading, writing, etc.
Remove the Europass logo. This is about you. What’s that about.
Totally remodel the about me bit. I want to understand your character. What excites you. What your ambitions are. Why you want the role. Not saying “excellent interpersonal skills”, “works well under pressure”.
Most importantly: Don’t post your daily activities in the job experience. Focus on the big ticket items where you can show off and prove your skills. I want to be excited and impressed. The skills should be apparent and in fact evidenced from the job section.
This is here to sell you. A pre read so interesting they will be going into the interview with the mindset of how do we convince this guy to work for us.
At present it’s boring and long winded. Needs to be half the length, focussed on what you’ve done that’s exciting and high profile and what your aspirations are.
A CV should be no longer than two pages max. No one’s reading all that. You graduated almost 7 years ago and your last job was as a senior. Why tf are you still listing your college courses on your CV? Also, you don’t need four paragraphs describing your hobbies. One is enough if you really think it’s relevant for the job. Plus “flipping cars and houses” and “passive income” sounds pretty weird but that’s beside the point.
Literally “Too long, didn’t read”.
This is hilarious. No way your english is c2 if the grammar/syntax sucks so much
Aside from the other issues that people have mentioned here (I.e. length), your spelling and grammar in the English parts isn’t spell checked, perhaps at very least run the text parts through gpt to correct for spelling and grammar, I always find that helpful
Keep it short, max 2 pages.
It’s your CV not your biography.
You list a Swiss address as home, yet you are apparently in Portugal on a remote contract. How can this be legal?
Wow never expected so much help 🙂 Thank you all for your help and feedback I knew that my cv had a lot of text but in my mind all was relevant experiences to be mentioned, so that HR could understand if I dealt with certain type of tasks or not
a lot of grammatical mistakes, too long, and noone cares about your hobby. Also, noone cares about your other skills, everyone can simply good things about themselves. Try to look for good examples on the internet, plenty of them, do your homework
This is a typical portuguese CV. The longer the better. As a fellow portuguese I can say to you that in Switzerland some recruiters will reject you just for that. They will not even read it.
Write only the job related skills that are essential for the position that you are applying.
Not knowing any of the national languages may also be a problem…
Wayy too long, HR doesnt like text walls. Keep it short
Your hobby and about me section is waaaaay to long. Cut those right down to 1-2 lines or bullet points.
Also I don’t see your visa status mentioned?
I went to a special “find a job class” where they told me that it’s really important that you CV is one page. For me that was something new, but maybe it plays a big role here?
Resume.io
Keep it 2 pages max
Dude, I have 100 CVs to look at today. Do you think I read all that? Cut 80% of all that crap and give me your education in 5 lines and your work experience in another 5. If I like it I will call you for an interview.
In HR we have pretty low IQ so keep it simple.
Drop that fcking EU flag, here we independent. We Switzerland 🇨🇭.
Add your age
nobody is going to read through that whole thing, make bulletpoints, nobody cares about the whole story
Fellow Portuguese here. Besides all that has been said here, I’d say you are adding too much detail there because you don’t have a cover letter, which is a thing in Switzerland (and was never a thing in Portugal). You need to take all that detail about your experience and put it in a cover letter where you tell your story. But this is one page tops, not more. And then the market is also not in its best days. In Switzerland, you can send 100 cvs and not get an interview. In Portugal, almost every cv you send grants you at least a phone call from a recruiter. So keep trying because here things are quite different!
TL;DR
Had to google „flipping cars“
Too long and too wordy
1 page only
Only use experience that is important for the specific job you are applying for
Do a longer an. One pager – not more. Put yourself in the position of a hiring managers. Scan your CV in 4 seconds. Did you get all relevant information? No? -> trash.
One pager my man, one pager
Your hobby (which is more like a side hustle) , is a no-no imo.
CV way too long, hobby part irrelevant (people at most put a few keywords, never plain trext). No national language spoken and no work experience or study in CH, really don’t play in your favor.
You should remove all the basic stuff as well and focus on the key advanced skills you have. E.g., if you don’t apply for a secretary role, no one will care that you know how to “classify documents”.
Finally, there are huge blank spaces here and there. If it’s redacted stuff, fine, but if the real CV is like that, make it more compact. CV should be one page ideally, two if you have lots of experience. More than that, no one will read.
It’s waaayyyyyyy to lenghty. Recuiters surely do not want to read ‘novels’, … “time is money”.
Try to condense it down to one or 1.5 page(s) (obviously not by font-size=3px 😉 )
Throw out unnecessary details, especially if they are not contributing to your new job-of-desire. (be carefull not to open up time holes, just shrink it massively).
Hobbies are usually NOT a part of CVs, except it is sooooo extraordinary, that some stranger would remember it. So leave it out.
My last used CV had 5 sections:
– Personal information
– linguistic proficiencies
– Competencies, knowledge and interests (important keywords go here)
– Professional background (where and what did i do to become what i am now)
– ( academic study )
And if you want an extra, give it somehow a modern, nice to look-at design, but not too fancy. Or are you applying for an art job? 😉
Good luck.
So, you mean this thread is not a parody of the worst cv ever?
1) no local language
2) way too much text, keep it to max 3 pages, better 2 (see below)
2) I prefer the following format for each position: company/position, responsibilities and results. Max three bullets for the last two positions. One for older ones.
3) summary: less text
4) no one wants to read about pets and hobbies nowadays, unless in very specific cases – and you write almost half a page about it.
Additional things:
– ‘traveling to other countries’ is *not* the flex you may think it is, and even less so as the first bullet on no less than two job positions.
– language: just write “English (C2)”, you save a lot of space – and your CV should reflect this (at C2, a certificate is almost a must, since no one gets to his level without courses)
– project skills: that should come out from your experience. If I read a CV, I’d like to see “led project XYZ and delivered in time and in budget” instead of “I know how to lead a project”
– education: no need for listing subjects – field of study and level is all that is needed. Saves you another 7 lines
– professional skill: way too vague and basic (classifying documents? That’s almost never a game changer)
– one important part: you write that you were doing compliance on funds. If you were personnally registered with a supervisory agency, I’d note that.
– using an apostrophe for the plural s puts you immediately very low in my list if I am looking for a detailed-oriented person in accounting or similar. And at C2 that’s not an excusable mistake. Sorry to be harsh here.
I’m sorry, but reading your CV, it is very clear your English is not at C2 level. From what I read so far, I would guess you come at B2.
For the rest, I agree with the other comments to try and shorten your CV.
I spent 2 minutes glancing over this, and i couldn‘t tell what you‘re really good at.
I‘m 21 and not HR but damn, make a few bullet points, no BS. 3-4 SMALL paragraphs with experience. Then maybe hobbies in 2-5 lines of text.
Clear.
Simple.
Courteous.
Run the text through chatgpt and get it to correct the mistakes and shorten down everything.
Get swiss nr if possible.
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If this is not a shitpost, then the obvious answer is to trim that shit down to 1 – 2 pages, and use less words. No recruiter gonna give a shit about more than 1, 2 sentences per category.
Shrink it to 2 pages max. Nobody wants to read a novel…
It’s too long
TL;DR.
No seriously. Keep it to two, MAYBE three A4 pages. Keep itemized lists brief and only do it for the most recent 1-2 positions.
Drop the “About me” section, that goes in the motivation letter. Add DoB and maritial status.
Too long, too cluttered. Trim it to like 10% of this wall of text.
– This seems like a 4-page CV for less than 10 years of experience. Make it 1 page.
– Remove most of the text. Nobody cares about a detailed analysis.
– Remove that “europass” sign at the top.
– Condense language and other skills
– Remove hobbies
– Remove internships when you have more than 3 jobs on your CV
– Shrink down the oversized header
– Fix grammatical, syntactical, and spelling mistakes
There is absolutely no reason to have a CV longer than 2 pages.
Remove the hobbies section. Absolutely never.
Remove the skills section. Half of it is so vague as to be meaningless – what does “collaborate to support the administration” even mean. Skills need to be evidenced and linked to particular things you’ve done in your job.
Remove the language section. They’ll get you speak English if the whole CV is in English. Alternatively list it in the education section. With a single line. C2 English. They’ll get that’s very good, you don’t need to separate it out so much into reading, writing, etc.
Remove the Europass logo. This is about you. What’s that about.
Totally remodel the about me bit. I want to understand your character. What excites you. What your ambitions are. Why you want the role. Not saying “excellent interpersonal skills”, “works well under pressure”.
Most importantly: Don’t post your daily activities in the job experience. Focus on the big ticket items where you can show off and prove your skills. I want to be excited and impressed. The skills should be apparent and in fact evidenced from the job section.
This is here to sell you. A pre read so interesting they will be going into the interview with the mindset of how do we convince this guy to work for us.
At present it’s boring and long winded. Needs to be half the length, focussed on what you’ve done that’s exciting and high profile and what your aspirations are.
A CV should be no longer than two pages max. No one’s reading all that. You graduated almost 7 years ago and your last job was as a senior. Why tf are you still listing your college courses on your CV? Also, you don’t need four paragraphs describing your hobbies. One is enough if you really think it’s relevant for the job. Plus “flipping cars and houses” and “passive income” sounds pretty weird but that’s beside the point.
Literally “Too long, didn’t read”.
This is hilarious. No way your english is c2 if the grammar/syntax sucks so much
Aside from the other issues that people have mentioned here (I.e. length), your spelling and grammar in the English parts isn’t spell checked, perhaps at very least run the text parts through gpt to correct for spelling and grammar, I always find that helpful
Keep it short, max 2 pages.
It’s your CV not your biography.
You list a Swiss address as home, yet you are apparently in Portugal on a remote contract. How can this be legal?
Wow never expected so much help 🙂 Thank you all for your help and feedback I knew that my cv had a lot of text but in my mind all was relevant experiences to be mentioned, so that HR could understand if I dealt with certain type of tasks or not
a lot of grammatical mistakes, too long, and noone cares about your hobby. Also, noone cares about your other skills, everyone can simply good things about themselves. Try to look for good examples on the internet, plenty of them, do your homework
This is a typical portuguese CV. The longer the better. As a fellow portuguese I can say to you that in Switzerland some recruiters will reject you just for that. They will not even read it.
Write only the job related skills that are essential for the position that you are applying.
Not knowing any of the national languages may also be a problem…
Wayy too long, HR doesnt like text walls. Keep it short
Your hobby and about me section is waaaaay to long. Cut those right down to 1-2 lines or bullet points.
Also I don’t see your visa status mentioned?
I went to a special “find a job class” where they told me that it’s really important that you CV is one page. For me that was something new, but maybe it plays a big role here?
Resume.io
Keep it 2 pages max
Dude, I have 100 CVs to look at today. Do you think I read all that? Cut 80% of all that crap and give me your education in 5 lines and your work experience in another 5. If I like it I will call you for an interview.
In HR we have pretty low IQ so keep it simple.
Drop that fcking EU flag, here we independent. We Switzerland 🇨🇭.
Add your age
nobody is going to read through that whole thing, make bulletpoints, nobody cares about the whole story
Fellow Portuguese here. Besides all that has been said here, I’d say you are adding too much detail there because you don’t have a cover letter, which is a thing in Switzerland (and was never a thing in Portugal). You need to take all that detail about your experience and put it in a cover letter where you tell your story. But this is one page tops, not more. And then the market is also not in its best days. In Switzerland, you can send 100 cvs and not get an interview. In Portugal, almost every cv you send grants you at least a phone call from a recruiter. So keep trying because here things are quite different!
TL;DR
Had to google „flipping cars“
Too long and too wordy
1 page only
Only use experience that is important for the specific job you are applying for
Do a longer an. One pager – not more. Put yourself in the position of a hiring managers. Scan your CV in 4 seconds. Did you get all relevant information? No? -> trash.
One pager my man, one pager
Your hobby (which is more like a side hustle) , is a no-no imo.
CV way too long, hobby part irrelevant (people at most put a few keywords, never plain trext). No national language spoken and no work experience or study in CH, really don’t play in your favor.
You should remove all the basic stuff as well and focus on the key advanced skills you have. E.g., if you don’t apply for a secretary role, no one will care that you know how to “classify documents”.
Finally, there are huge blank spaces here and there. If it’s redacted stuff, fine, but if the real CV is like that, make it more compact. CV should be one page ideally, two if you have lots of experience. More than that, no one will read.
It’s waaayyyyyyy to lenghty. Recuiters surely do not want to read ‘novels’, … “time is money”.
Try to condense it down to one or 1.5 page(s) (obviously not by font-size=3px 😉 )
Throw out unnecessary details, especially if they are not contributing to your new job-of-desire. (be carefull not to open up time holes, just shrink it massively).
Hobbies are usually NOT a part of CVs, except it is sooooo extraordinary, that some stranger would remember it. So leave it out.
My last used CV had 5 sections:
– Personal information
– linguistic proficiencies
– Competencies, knowledge and interests (important keywords go here)
– Professional background (where and what did i do to become what i am now)
– ( academic study )
And if you want an extra, give it somehow a modern, nice to look-at design, but not too fancy. Or are you applying for an art job? 😉
Good luck.
So, you mean this thread is not a parody of the worst cv ever?
1) no local language
2) way too much text, keep it to max 3 pages, better 2 (see below)
2) I prefer the following format for each position: company/position, responsibilities and results. Max three bullets for the last two positions. One for older ones.
3) summary: less text
4) no one wants to read about pets and hobbies nowadays, unless in very specific cases – and you write almost half a page about it.
Additional things:
– ‘traveling to other countries’ is *not* the flex you may think it is, and even less so as the first bullet on no less than two job positions.
– language: just write “English (C2)”, you save a lot of space – and your CV should reflect this (at C2, a certificate is almost a must, since no one gets to his level without courses)
– project skills: that should come out from your experience. If I read a CV, I’d like to see “led project XYZ and delivered in time and in budget” instead of “I know how to lead a project”
– education: no need for listing subjects – field of study and level is all that is needed. Saves you another 7 lines
– professional skill: way too vague and basic (classifying documents? That’s almost never a game changer)
– one important part: you write that you were doing compliance on funds. If you were personnally registered with a supervisory agency, I’d note that.
– using an apostrophe for the plural s puts you immediately very low in my list if I am looking for a detailed-oriented person in accounting or similar. And at C2 that’s not an excusable mistake. Sorry to be harsh here.
I’m sorry, but reading your CV, it is very clear your English is not at C2 level. From what I read so far, I would guess you come at B2.
For the rest, I agree with the other comments to try and shorten your CV.
I spent 2 minutes glancing over this, and i couldn‘t tell what you‘re really good at.
I‘m 21 and not HR but damn, make a few bullet points, no BS. 3-4 SMALL paragraphs with experience. Then maybe hobbies in 2-5 lines of text.
Clear.
Simple.
Courteous.
Run the text through chatgpt and get it to correct the mistakes and shorten down everything.
Get swiss nr if possible.