Does anyone else think CVs are useless?

I say this because all the CVs I get sound like the person should be a company chairman.





What do you really learn about someone from a CV.

Does anyone else think CVs are useless?
I've never thought about CVs in that light, but come to think about it, you are right. Most of the time, the person who gets the job is not the one with super qualifications and vast experience, but the one who the potential employer can see will turn up to work every day, is reliable and trustworthy.
Reply:i run a haulage company and to me they are not worth the paper they are written on, as long as my drivers are safe and reliable i`ll employ them
Reply:The CV is just a guide to perspective employers to form a short list for interview .


It is then up to the interviewer to use their skills and experience to get the information they really need to make a decision .


Speaking from experience of interviewing , and it was for office and PC work , I would be looking as much at how well the CV was prepared and presented as to the content . That should have given me enough to decide on the interview list , and over the years I had a reasonable success rate for those I employed.


I do agree that there are now so many "professionals" out there supposedly helping candidates put together a CV that quite often the whole thing is just a fairy story
Reply:CV's are not for choosing someone for the job - they're just there so you can choose a few people to get in for an interview. I always think a good CV is not one which makes you out to be the company chairman, but one which makes people interested to meet you. Often it's the simple things which makes your CV thrown away or kept. I never interview anyone who has spelling mistakes on their CV (careless) but I often get in someone who has an interesting hobby just because I want to find out more about it.
Reply:I dont think CV's are asked for these days...the companies ive been trying to get jobs with (many many lol ) all have their own application forms and state "cv not required".





i use to put what i liked on my CV and it was never checked....references are only checked after you get the job...which is a silly way of doing it!
Reply:A CV gives you a first glance at a person and that is it.


If you get a CV in which someone hasn't bothered to proof read or spell check you know they aren't bothered.


You can also sift out who has the most experience or qualification through the big words.


CVs are no longer the one thing which gets you employed but so many people apply for jobs they help to initially cut numbers.
Reply:They are worth their weight in gold.....to careers masters and employment consultants. Where would they be without them? They would be jobless. They would have nothing to teach/charge for.


In the real world they are a wonderful thing for lighting the fire if you have no petrol about.


What you usually learn from them is someone is a bullsh*otter or if they really have got a Masters Degree in Media Studies.
Reply:To some extent they are useful in that you can see what qualifications the applicant has achieved and what sort of work they have done in their life but in terms of assessing a persons personality in terms of whether they would get on well with people already employed they are not much use.


Having said that in jobs to do with teaching and such I would try to pick a person who relates to kids the best and can explain things to them the clearest rather than going off whether they have for example got X amount of qualifications.
Reply:not a lot...its easy to big yourself up for a job if you have a gift for big words and grammer!! but i think you can only really tell how qualified someone is through interviews....preferably a couple.
Reply:I would have to ask in reply what do you expect from a results orientated society.


What you learn is whether or not they have made the grade and then it is up to you to distinquish between fact and fiction That is your job.

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