Improving Your CV, Chapter 25: Ideal CV update frequency

Part of Course 1: Improving your CV · Chapter 25 of 29 · 6 min

About this chapter

You don't need your CV until you suddenly do. I recommend updating it every few months, and noting what you've done as you go, so you aren't trying to remember three years of work under pressure.

Key points

• Update at least every six months, and put it in your calendar.
• Make notes of significant achievements, presentations and projects as they happen, so you can turn them into bullets later.
• The two common triggers are redundancy and being asked about a promotion, and both come with little notice.
• A mentor can remind you to review your CV every quarter.
• Contractors update their CVs constantly; employees are the ones who tend to forget.

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