[Closed] CV writing

@thered, Don't pay anyone for it, they're snake oil salesman.
I've helped a few people out on here, 15 years on recruitment means I know vaguely what I'm doing and will happily help people out. Drop me a DM and I'll more than happily look over what you've got and help make any improvements.
If you want to pay for it then put a few quid in the local charity box.

What Lunge said - don't pay someone to write about you. Also make sure you have someone look at it before it gets sent out, take up lunge's offer.

My 2p - Make sure any skills you talk about have evidence of how you aquired them and on the flip of that if you are saying you did a job or a course say what you learnt/skills gained. The two should link.
Sifting through CV's is brutal, you might have a stack of 50 in front of you and you need to whittle them down, so make it easy for the recruiter. Spoon feed them if need be. E.g. If you're good at CAD say so, and say how you learnt it
The cover letter is important too when submitting your CV for a specific job. Do some research and show you've had a look at the company and what the role is.

Best of luck

As a counter-balance, I find having a professional look at my CV/resume with a completely objective view is super helpful. As individuals we are often too close to our own experience to be able to communicate it well, and having someone with the expertise to assist on that can be very helpful.

If @lunge or someone with similar expertise are able to do so for you, that is of course the best bet. I had a good experience with Janet at The CV House many years ago. Wasn't cheap but did involve an in-depth series of conversations about my background, goals, etc.

Think of it like marketing or branding - there's a reason that marketing and branding agencies exist, who are better able to assist in targeting and exploiting a brand in the marketplace, even if the brand owner themselves in theory could do this.

Spawn is right. And on the subject of making people take notice, make sure the interesting stuff is on the first page, ideally at the top. Someone will often not read to the end of page 2 to find out if you're right.

The reason I'm cynical of professional CV writers is that I've seen to many bad CV's that someone has paid good money to have written. I don't doubt there are good CV writers out there, but my experience is, whilst the CV often looks good, the writers lack the knowledge of how recruitment and hiring works means they miss a few tricks around how to get your CV noticed.

Only advice i would give is don't have a 'CV', have a template that you write around the job advert, nothing worse than the generic CV going to 100 different adverts and being a jack of all trades, master of none.

Remember that you want to cut down on chaff and have your info front and centre, especially your achievements (in a STAR format if possible).