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CV Expert Be Like

  I’ve heard/ read some tips from CV experts, like remove certain information from your CV (marital status, sex, religion, state of origin, age, etc). I know you’ve seen/read/heard about it too. 

I don’t totally agree with them because they excluded a PS which I feel is very important.

While they are the CV expert, they are not the employer or the head of any recruitment team.  Every company is different and so is their culture. Let’s take a scenario of a job advert

Cynthia’s Media is a startup company, we have an opening for a female accountant between the ages of 22-30 years young with no prior experience, must live in and hail from Rivers State and is willing to stay longer hours and work remotely on weekends.

Now let’s get out the keywords 

Startup (hardly hire married people for many reasons)

Female (Sex)

Age 

Location

State of origin

Longer hours

So when you exclude the information above on your biodata your CV may be dumped- no it’s not your skills darling- the job role has rules) but this may not be the case for some companies, remember I said companies have different rules.

Let’s take another scenario, let’s say I apply for the job as Boma Epelle. if the recruitment team are oblivion of the fact that my name Boma is Unisex and they feel that's a dudes name my CV might be dumped if I excluded my sex but my CV will strike a debate if I include my sex and I might be invited if they are satisfied with my CV. 

I understand the reason behind the outcry of excluding certain information (tribalism, etc) but what CV experts fail to include is the need for applicants to understand the requirement for a position and for applicants to be smart enough to know when to include/exclude certain bio-data information. 

The Job of the CV expert is to write a CV that gets you to an interview not to get you employed. Know this before tomorrow you start to scream CV Expert AVOID ME 


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