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Discussion on: Don’t use progress bars in your CV

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Alex Antra

Unless you are a graphic designer don't do anything remotely close to this in your CV, and then if you are a graphic designer, draw something pretty, DEFINITELY do not do progress bars.

Your CV should be a spec sheet of what you know, think of it like the spec sheet of the iphone.

Your cover letter should be like the advert for the iphone. Connecting, for the reader, the points on your cv and relevant experience to the points on the advert.

Both CV and cover letter should be simple and to the point. No CV has ever been thrown out because it wasn't flashy enough, plenty of CV's have been chucked because they are 100 pages long.