Improving Your CV, Chapter 7: The importance of consistency in your CV

Part of Course 1: Improving your CV · Chapter 7 of 29 · 7 min

About this chapter

Inconsistent formatting and typos reflect badly on you, however unfair that feels, because a CV is often all the reader has to go on. I demonstrate how small inconsistencies stand out and give a simple checklist for catching them.

Key points

• Keep date formats, bullet styles, capitalisation, fonts, sizes and alignment consistent throughout.
• A typo is probably the worst thing you can get wrong; a CV that claims great attention to detail and then misspells "education" does you real damage.
• Run spell check and grammar check, and consider tools like Grammarly or asking an AI to point out issues.
• Ask another person to read it, at least for the first version.
• Stick to standard formatting so that cutting and pasting between versions doesn't introduce errors.

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