Is something wrong with my CV?

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1. >I’ve been applying for basically every level, Senior, Junior and even internships (!), and I either get negative responses or mostly none whatsoever… The fields I’m interested the most is Marketing/Web3/Crypto but I can perform other roles in Management and even Photography.

   What exactly are your skills and previous experience? Your description is extremely broad.

2. Maybe it is a language issue

3. what is your address you`re giving?

   And use a picture of yourself if you don’t…

   When you come visit your girlfriend visit an interim so that they can look over your cv and tell you what you’re doing wrong.

4. the world is in recession, finding a job keeps getting harder and harder. Worst case when u come here u can apply for ADEM, or work in fast food etc while still applying till u nail a job. best of luck friend!

5. Depende dos idiomas. Pra mim, também me custou a encontrar emprego. Sem francês ou alemão é mais complicado. Eu vim sem francês e alemão, mas vim para a área do IT. É continuar a tentar. Boa sorte!

6. The Web3/Crypto topics are still very young and often overlooked in Luxembourg. Most IT companies don’t have the knowledge, and are very slowly turning towards these technologies. Most banks and funds platforms simply don’t believe in the blockchain in general.

   It doesn’t surprise me that you don’t get many opportunities in these areas. You should instead put the focus on either programming/business analyst/management skills (…?) that you have on the topic.

   Best of luck

7. Not trying to discourage you here but looking at the CV you’ve uploaded on another sub, I think you may be lacking technical skills to integrate one of the web3 or blockchain players in Lux. Most of the serious companies are not about crypto as such but rather about securitization and clearing on the blockchain. That’s where the focus in Lux is. Have a look at HQLX, the Lux Stock Exchange, etc. There are some crypto players like Bitstamp but I doubt they are currently hiring. To be very honest with you, and please don’t take this the wrong way, but I find your CV to be a bit overcrowded with very few hard input. Make it a bit more concise and loose the graph bars would be my advice. Second advice would be to adapt it to each industry you’re applying for and see what actual hard and soft skills as well as experiences you have could be most valuable for that industry. Describe these in a convincing way and your CV will look more “attractive”. Also, maybe try more classical industries if you’re looking for a marketing job. You’re portuguese, right? Try to bank on that. We’ve got a huge portuguese community here and there are certainly companies that want to cater to this community (a few examples would be Luxair, retail banks that focus on young home buyers, etc.).

   Frankly I’d recommend you to focus on classic marketing or communications and while you’re at it, go to as many blockchain/web3 summits as possible to build a network and try to get a foot in the door that way.

8. I’m not sure if it’s a good idea, but I’d send my CV both in English and French, to show that I’m fluent in both. I think for marketing it might be essential

9. Seems like the timing is off. Start applying in January and you’ll see higher response rate. Also, your cv should adapt to what an employer wants to see, not what you can show to the employer.

10. Apart from education, Id skip the entire right side of the CV. It’s just random meaningless words that you picked from the abg template. Bar diagrams have no use in a CV becayse theire is not proper way of comparison.

    You have to be more of specific on your previous work too, expand the left part and explain how you did the tasks.

11. For some reason the picture didn’t load for the first time.
    I think, the there is lot of waste of space taken up by not very useful graphs and charts. Some information is too generic (e.g. understood crypto dynamics).

12. Firstly, I get suspicious when you say you’re from marketing and the CV looks like a Word 2007 Template. Get a better, cleaner template, I used a business letter template.
    Then, list your education, list your job history, what you did and how, and lastly list your hardskills and languages (only things you did and maybe can prove you did. Explain your skills, not just list them up. There are points that add no value in my opinion: assertiveness? video software? self thaught?).
    List it in historical order (start with oldest) Softskills, likes and hobby’s, I see no need to add to a CV. Everyone is a teamplayer when asked.
    I would list the modeling position but leave all the details for the kind of jobs you’re applying to. Bullet points of your job history looks good, but stay in the past when describing, often times you write in the present.
    Look up CEFR and describe your Language Skills accordingly (C2, B1 etc.). I would add a picture.
    Layout-wise: Leave the ; in your bullet point list. At the top list your contact details, name and picture, don’t use some kind of vertical lay-out you used there. That all will make your CV way easier to read for the Recruiter.

13. Vou te explicar o problema por partes:

    1) a tua área- em parte porque o mercado de trabalho absorve pessoal dos paises aqui ao lado e esses ja falam as linguas oficiais

    2) as tuas linguas: tugas todos “falam frances”, LOL, mas é mais uma francesada para desenrascar. Como os tugas que falam “espanhol” pq vao a fronteira comprar caramelos.

    3) Tugas ja nascidos no lux: falam 5/6 linguas em nivel C2. Agora pensa.

    Nao tens nada de errado no CV, mas 2 meses nao é nada. Vais ter que dar duro e eventualmente procurar outras areas ate te estabeleceres no lux.

    Boa sorte. Tambem ja estive assim mas há sempre oportunidades

14. I might be a bit blunt here, but please don’t take it the wrong way (it is meant in a supportive way and I am a bit tired). I screen dozens if not hundreds of resumes a week (in Lux) and was responsible for 70% of my international company’s full-time hires this year.

    * V2 is definitely better than V1, no question about it.
    * As others have pointed out: avoid using scales of any kind on your CV (bar charts, X/Y type assessments, etc.). Recruiters are usually repulsed by those things, and for good reason (other than the fact that they’re just complete eyesores).
    * You need to tighten up your resume in general: write a summary that doesn’t only consist of two sentences full of buzzwords; remove unnecessary information (such as “UTC+1” under contact, “(Learning Again)” behind your French language skills, “Anything I can try, I will probably” in Hobbies and Likes”, “Started as an intern and was immediately hired”); focus your key skills on things that bring real “added value” for the company; and remove any periods or semicolons as you don’t need those at all (and they are inconsistently used across your resume by the way).
    * Including a picture of yourself on your resume is risky business. If you include it, make sure that it is a professional headshot (NO FULL-BODY PICTURES), depicting a well-groomed version of you in business attire. Anything else is off-limits. Heads up also on the fact that, if you are conventionally attractive, including a picture of yourself while indicating that you were a model in the past may trigger some feelings in recruiters which may not necessarily be beneficial to your application.
    * Please put your degrees/certifications in chronological order. In your case, the dates don’t even look like they overlap.
    * Chill a bit on the hobbies, you don’t need to include 10 of them. 3, 4, tops. And make it the ones that (a) will give people an idea of who you are and (b) that you’ll be comfortable talking about if a recruiter asks you about them.
    * Maybe add the village/city you plan on relocating to. Seeing “Luxembourg” and a Portuguese phone number immediately tells me that you may not be here yet, and if I don’t have the time to wait for you to relocate, you’re off into the “no” pile. Mentioning a village/city may give you a chance to get to an initial phone screening.
    * Also, switch your English skills from “advanced” to “full professional proficiency”. “Advanced” sounds like you can follow YouTube videos but can’t hold your own in a meeting.
    * Last but not least, the responsibilities you include in your resume are not particularly streamlined (in other words: I don’t really understand what it is you do) or “results-oriented”. They describe what you did, but not always what it brought the company. A recruiter may consequently have a bit of difficulty figuring out what exactly you bring to the table.

    Hope that helps!

    EDIT: punctuation