What our hiring panel actually looks for on a CV — and the simple mistakes that filter out otherwise strong candidates.
We sit on the hiring panel for almost every apprentice CPD places. Across those panels we've watched hundreds of CVs come through — and the same handful of mistakes filter out otherwise strong candidates.
The fixable ones: trying to fit two pages of content onto a single page (don't), generic objective statements (delete them), listing every Microsoft product you've ever opened (don't), and missing dates on roles (always include).
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