What do you think about my CV?

10 comments

1. Are your blanked out company names are all the same company? Otherwise why are several dates are overlapping? That was my first thought.

2. Just my perspective, consider removing the Praxisassistentin section. It may unintentionally undermine the Praxismanager role, since it shows continued assistant-level work alongside a management position.
   Also, the 3-month overlap between Logistik and Praxismanager might raise questions. The Logistik job with 6 years need a good upgrade.

   I suggest adding two more bullet points under each job to better showcase responsibilities and achievements. Look at official Stellenausschreibungen for these roles to include more specific and professional language.
   Lastly, the skills section needs refinement. For instance, “Terminorganisation” is more of a task than a skill.

3. Most of the templates I’ve seen put the education in the main column. The skills section made me wonder what you learned during your Ausbildung since the skills mostly seem to be related to your current job. The language section gives no indication of your English level, I would at least add some indication there, even if you don’t have an official certificate.

4. The bullet points for the job are pretty weak and don’t transport what you do/did. 

   No pic is a gewagte decision given that a recent study says half of all HR managers in Germany bin CV without pictures. 

5. Praxismanagerin is one word, not two

6. put your actual language level in parenthesis (c2-c2, c1/b2) for instance

   id remove the early education part too, but take this with a grain of salt: my resume ‘starts’ at ba and mostly hire people with postgraduate degrees, so ymmv in different industries

7. The best tip I picked up online and gave me 2x results in interviews is including physical results from my work not just what I did.

   I’m not just a data analyst:

   I set up an automated early warning dashboard that monitored 50 kpis using outlier detection.
   These kpis were driving a team of 1000 employees (it was used by a director who manages 5 but ultimately has 1000 people below him).
   I saved 150k$ optimizing a process..

   Stuff like this. Whatever they are he it school projects, previous work achievements etc… this make you sound like an achiever as opposed to just another fish in the sea. You did things and you talk about them

8. There is like a Standard for the general communication in Companies in Germany
   It’s the DIN5008
   This also includes CV and general Applications and prepares them for sending them by mail, since Adresses etc are exactly layed out to be seen in envelopes with windows etc.
   https://www.ausbildung.de/ratgeber/bewerbung/din5008/

   As a Designer I wouldn’t use any of this for my own application, since it’s just boring and ugly af.
   Depending on the way you’ll send this, you nowadays even don’t need to think about printing.

   So your design at first glance lacks a bit of Contrast and is quite pastel colored.
   Given the fact, that this is a common theme in medical, these colors would be still ok I guess.
   What I like is your use of icons, which also seem very well build and chosen.

   I would highly avoid using FULL CAPS like in your Headlines, since this lowers the readability also makes words like „Berufserfahrung“ appear even longer or bigger.

   Just by eyeballing it seems like your line height differs a lot from section to section. Normally you would have a horizontal baseline grid for the whole page, where every line of text just sits on these same baselines. This provides one of the most important aspects of design, rhythm.

   Headlines:
   Your headlines seem unordered. Do you use a proper Headline-Set (H1,H2,H3…)?
   Here you can find some guidelines on how to structure and size your typography.

   https://www.toptal.com/designers/typography/typographic-hierarchy

   Avoid also too many text decoration, like Big, Underline or even … „Italic“ and never combine them. Never.

   The blue boxes with rounded corners you added seem unnecessary and don’t really add structure and order to the document. Seems like you’ve chosen that as your way to add some color and contrast, but putting everything in little boxes just adds noise and doesn’t really help. Try to find just one Contrast Color, and let it really pop. You could color the headlines for example or the underlines, while trying to maintain readability and text contrast. So no Pastels this time 🙂

   As for your dotted bullet lists with the things you did in your former job, try to avoid these completely or manage to move the dot more to the left to let the type start evenly and vertical aligned. This will lead to a more fluent reading experience since your eyes have always the same starting point to read the next line.

   As for your typeface or the font you choose:
   I guess it’s Calibri?
   This is boring but readable and for a job application this is just enough if you aren’t applying for a design job.

   If you really want to add both a strong personal touch and quite exciting or even engaging aspects to your design, you should consider trying Adobe Fonts or stuff like that. This isn’t like really necessary, but sometimes one has friends who can help out with that. So you have like proper fonts to choose from.

   Normally you choose and combine 2 fontfaces, one for the headlines and one for the running text.

   There are several examples of good type mixes out there, also on Adobe Fonts and even for free. I would google them already with the medical aspect added.

9. I’d place your Bildungsweg on the lower white main section of your CV. You have successfully finished your Ausbildung. It’s easily overlooked. The first information I read is in the white section.

10. Sometimes you use „und“ and the other time &.
    After Praxisorganisation und – management’s you have a „.“ and remove the space between the „-„ and management.
    You could ad to the the position the location (city).
    Ad the Level of your English language ( btw what did you remove above the English one?).
    Was the Ausbildung only in school or in a company? If it was also in a company then you could place it under Berufserfahrung in an extra field.

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