Andy Warhol said everybody gets their 15 minutes of fame. The CV is your opportunity to be in the spotlight, but unfortunately most candidates are lucky to get five minutes. It depends on the job and the number of applicants, but recruiters will, on average, spend less than two minutes reading a CV. They’ll never admit it publicly, but it is not unheard of for a recruiter to send a CV straight to the waste-paper basket with nothing more than a quick glance.
Your job is to make the most of that tiny window of opportunity to sell yourself to the recruiter. Your CV must sell, sell, sell! It must sell you.
Remember that you are marketing yourself ...
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