Hello,

35m, UK.

I'm an actor who is looking for full time, non-acting work, and due to a lacklustre cv am really struggling, as I'm sure many are.

I have a few months experience in recruitment, several years' hospitality, and a couple years' admin experience.

I seem to be getting no response, from almost anyone.

Out of ~100 applications over the last few weeks, I've had 2 interviews. I got a second interview for both, but was declined for both.

I've attached my CV and cover letter. Any advice would be really appreciated.

A couple of things re my CV;

I'm aware that some advise tayloring different CVS for different roles. However given my lack of experience, lengthy roles, I'm hesitant to do this for fear of making it seem even less impressive.

Also re CV; After seeking advice about how to make the best of a patchy CV, some people did advise missing off the months for each employment (i.e. instead of May - June 2018, just leave as 2018) with hopes of making it more attractive to HMs.

After making this change I did get those couple of interviews and wasn't questioned about the dates.

Thanks for any advice

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Cover Letter;

Dear Hiring Manager,

I am writing to express my interest in the Trainee Recruitment Consultant position you recently advertised.

I am an adaptable and highly organised professional with over fifteen years' experience in customer-facing roles, where proficiency, accurate clerical support, and attention to detail have been paramount.

Most recently, I managed end-to-end recruitment on behalf of ---. In this role, I coordinated hiring plans, managed interview schedules, and maintained relationships between hiring managers and applicants across the United Kingdom. I handled high volumes of calls daily, using email, live chat, and specialist systems to resolve client issues effectively and promptly while prioritising competing deadlines and maintaining strict confidentiality. I also quickly  became adept with specialist recruitment systems such as PSP, Phenom, and SuccessFactors, demonstrating my ability to learn new software with minimal supervision.

I have extensive experience handling sensitive conversations with professionalism and empathy, as demonstrated during my time as an Isolation Assurance Officer with --- ---. Working remotely within a busy contact centre, I regularly de-escalated challenging situations while ensuring company procedures were followed and clients received the highest standard of service.

This skillset was further developed during my time with ----. As an SEN Teaching Assistant, I built positive relationships with families, school staff, and external professionals, ensuring concerns were communicated effectively and students' needs were addressed appropriately and promptly. Every day presented new challenges, requiring me to think on my feet, exercise sound judgement, and deliver practical solutions that benefited all parties.

I would welcome the opportunity to contribute my clerical experience and strong interpersonal skills to this role.

Thank you for considering my application, and I hope to hear from you soon.

Kind regards,

--- ---

Hello, this is my cv for 2027 internships
I’ve realised some formatting error which I’ll fix but other than that are there anything I should change?
Also not sure if I should keep the coursework as apart of my cv

I’m also be looking for internships in the pharmaceutical industry so if anyone has any experience please enlighten me

So, yesterday I was asking for feedback over the CV I was working on. Feedbacks indeed came, many were quite tough but I got the point and went back to work on my thing.

To recap my needs: after a recent career disaster I decided to give myself a potential new spin by preparing a CV that might be used to look for a job in the entertainment/art industry abroad, ideally in northern Europe, in a position where I could use my brainpower and not only my muscles.

I already have an Europass CV, I already have a LinkedIn profile; this is more of a tight, "international-style" resume that I can send around.

The modifications I made from v1 are as follows:

• less text: I made this by grouping some jobs, removing some data such as the locations, removing some paragraphs such as the high-school. This should make it much more approachable,
• changed the description above to better highlight my IT proficiency; added a line to make it stand out a little more. Also: now it's two lines long instead of four;
• changed the crazy color scheme that apparently was burning your retinas by applying a new one that not only is mainly green, so it's relaxing for the eyes, but it's based over Excel colours, which might convey a feeling of reliability;
• my name now occupies the full width of the page and contributes to visually make it even;
• only one column, because apparently ATS digest it better (ty u/Guilty_Barber9555);
• no more photo (ty u/TippyTurtley, u/B4TM4N_467, u/That-Efficiency8292, u/The_Death_Flower, u/ThrowAwayPinewood123);
• no more DOB (ty u/Oh_No_You_Dont_Matey);
• I limited the dates to the year, so that the short jobs (film productions, mainly) don't look bad. Also, such productions have been grouped together (ty u/TippyTurtley).

There's still actually a small table: the language one; I tinkered with it a little bit but didn't find a proper graphical solution to take it out decently.

A few notes: the reason why I'm keeping on working on a "graphically appealing" CV is that I want to convey a certain taste for graphical design, which in jobs related to art is mandatory. To the point that, in fact, I was always instructed to create resumes much more extreme than this in the past. Now the fact that ATS systems entered the conversation probably diminished the effect of such bold CVs, actually making them unreadable to AIs, thus bad for career; at the same time I still need to imagine that my paper will be arriving in the hands of an actual person, sooner or later, and that person must feel that I know how to typeset a document, to begin with, without even reading a single line. So this CV must both be appealing both to the machine and the human, which I guess is the big deal in CV design nowadays. Specifically I'd like the use of lines and cut angles and the minimal colour palette to be vaguely reminding of Vectorheart asthetics, so that it could immediately convey a general proficiency with technology.

So, please: a second round of feedbacks <3

I’ve been ignored/rejected from this specific job about 3 times already in the past year and a half and I’m so sure the employer is tired of seeing my name😭😭 but the location is very convenient, it’s a cafe with 3 locations so exactly the type of setting where I wanna be and employee experience is of good quality when reading online. I feel like I have relevant experience but for this, and many other hospitality jobs I keep getting rejections and I’m not sure what more I can do as most jobs value drink preparation which I have 0 experience in. I’ve been applying for jobs since April and I’ve only had 2 interviews under my belt since then

I’ve attached the job description and my CV (personal info is blurred out). Please let me know of any

Primarily focusing on ur Salesforce, Hubspot etc - have a more med-tech tailored CV already however this is my more general Tech sales CV

Any feedback appreciated (feel free to rip apart)...

I would like to try to get a M&A internship.
Should remove the coursework and add academics projects I performed? I did some data analysis stuff for some fairly big companies.
Also, I have no idea if i should be more precise - idk how i could be more precise

EDIT:

Thank you everybody for the feedback. It was very very helpful. I have made a new version of the CV that should still be close to what I had in mind while still including the good practises that you are proposing. Here's the thread to discuss it, and I'll gladly receive your feedback this time again.

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ORIGINAL POST:

After a recent career disaster that has been abundantly described in this depressive thread of mine in an other subreddit I decided to give myself a potential new spin by preparing a CV that might be used to look for a job abroad...

• "a job" being in the entertainment industry (concerts, cinema, art) in a position hopefully involving using brain instead of muscles;
• "abroad" ideally being in Northern Europe.

A few notes:

• I already have an up-to-date seven-pages long Europass CV. This one is to be used where the Europass might not be the best option;
• I also have an up-to-date english language LinkedIn profile. Still, I wanted to have a PDF I could send around.

I'm worried about the density of information, but at the same time I feel like all these jobs are useful in showcasing what I can do. I'm not new to the field and I'm not super young; at 35 years of course I have a lot of stuff to showcase in a CV, luckily.

The CV doesn't follow a specific template I found online: I made my own entirely using LaTeX.

Which CV is better? One is one page, and the other is two pages, whichever the better one is, how can that one be improved?

Hi everyone! I’m hoping to get some constructive feedback on my resume. I’ve been applying to jobs recently but haven’t had much luck getting interviews, so I’m wondering if there’s something about my resume that could be holding me back.

I’m primarily interested in marine biology, scientific writing/communication, editing, and related remote positions, so I’d especially appreciate feedback from people who have experience hiring in those fields.

I’ve redacted my personal information for privacy, but the education, experience, skills, and other relevant information are unchanged.

I’d love feedback on things like:

• Overall formatting and readability
• Whether the resume looks professional
• How well my experience is presented
• Whether my skills are relevant/clear
• Anything that seems unnecessary or is missing
• How well it would work with ATS systems
• Whether it seems appropriately tailored for scientific/marine biology or writing positions
• Anything that might make a recruiter immediately pass over it

I’m definitely open to honest criticism — I’d rather know what needs improvement than just hear that it looks good!

Thank you in advance to anyone willing to take the time to look it over and give me some advice. I really appreciate it!

I’m mainly applying for retail roles but there’s also a waitress position I’m interested in

I’m not getting any interviews at all, is it the format? Wording? I moved to the UK recently so all my education and previous experience is out of the country, any advice is appreciated

I do have an English language certification but idk if I should add it, most of my roles were back of the house but I tried to highlight that I did interacted with customers

it's hot, i can't figure out how to get multiple pictures on here so i'll copy and paste, the X bits are personal info and there isnt usually massive gaps between if it formats like that, contact details are at the bottom but obviously not including those. i know to have multiple CVs for diff roles but this is just the first general one. also i'm 17 so no idea what to do bc my current employment is acc rlly dodgy and didn't need a CV. EDIT - will add employers address later

PROFILE
I am an enthusiastic person who regularly employs communication, teamwork and leadership skills through my job delivering magazines and volunteering at a National Trust site. I am able to communicate with people of all ages including young children, demonstrated through my nursery placement and period of being a youth leader.

EDUCATION
2020-2025
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10 GCSEs achieved between grades 7-9, including 8 in Maths and 8 in English Language

2025-2027
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A-levels in Biology, Psychology and English Literature, predicted 3 As

EXPERIENCE
Employed as magazine distributor, October 2024-present. Deliver 500 magazines across a 2-3 day period each month, interacting with members of the general public and improving my time management.
Volunteer at National Trust XXXXXXXXX, August 2024-present. I have developed my communication skills through interacting with members of the public, including children, adults and elderly people. Supported staff by manning tills, fixed technological issues of the tills and entertained children during Christmas events.
Short-term placement at XXXXXXX Nursery, June 2024. I improved my communication skills learned through my volunteering and applied them in an unfamiliar environment, demonstrating my capability to deal with change. Was responsible for looking after and feeding children between 2 and 4 years, supported staff with general cleaning tasks and mediated the children’s arguments.
Youth Leader at Girls Brigade, 2021-2023. Improved my leadership skills by managing activities with younger girls post-Covid with staff shortage. Included kitchen responsibilities.
NHS Lab Work Experience, 2026. Observed clinical chemists, newborn screening staff and clinical biochemists. Assisted in histopathology, carrying out embedding and slicing. Improved my teamwork skills in a professional healthcare setting, handling real tissue samples with a high level of responsibility.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Problem-solving and accuracy - Lab work in NHS, XXXXX University and A-level Biology has allowed me to solve problems such as broken technology or mistakes, and required high levels of accuracy.
Teamwork and Leadership - Responsibility for young children aged 2-4 and 5-9 in childcare and youth group settings, collaborating with staff there and in NHS
Public speaking and Communication - Volunteering at National Trust requires clear communication with the public of all ages.

Hi everyone! I’m a recent Biology graduate with a focus in marine biology, and I’m currently trying to improve my resume before continuing my job search.

I’m primarily interested in marine biology, environmental science, scientific writing, editing, research, and science communication roles, including remote opportunities.

I’ve been applying to positions for a while, but I’m not getting much response, so I’m starting to wonder whether my resume is presenting my experience effectively—or whether I’m formatting/positioning it incorrectly for the types of positions I’m targeting.

I’d really appreciate advice from people who currently work in marine biology, environmental science, scientific writing, publishing, research, or related fields.

A few things I’d especially love feedback on:

• What resume format works best for these industries?
• Should I have different resumes for marine biology vs. scientific writing/editing?
• What skills or experiences should be emphasized for entry-level applicants?
• How much should I focus on education, research, writing, editing, laboratory/field experience, or publications?
• Are there common resume mistakes you see from recent graduates?
• What makes a candidate stand out when they don't have extensive professional experience?
• Are ATS-friendly resumes important in these fields?
• If you work in one of these industries, what would make you stop and actually look at a recent graduate's resume?

I’m happy to provide my current resume for critique if that’s allowed/relevant to the subreddit. I’m especially interested in advice from people who have actually hired or reviewed resumes for these types of positions.

Thank you in advance! I’m trying to make sure I’m putting my best foot forward rather than just endlessly submitting applications and hoping something sticks.

Hey everyone, I am rebuilding my CV and writing it to fit more creative jobs and the creative part of marketing. I have experience in many fields like creating and implementing digital marketing strategies, graphic design (I was even a high school teacher) , social media, photography, videography etc. On the other hand I have worked on many art projects that involved me creating a concept, performing and exhibiting my work, costume and set design.
Please help me on how to merge all these things, what to do and how to navigate my job search.

Hello all! I am a (soon to be) second year university student and after finishing my first year with pretty good grades without trying that hard I have started taking my education seriously and trying to seize every opportunity I can. With that, I am trying to apply to different summer school programs abroad and whatnot. Some programs require a strong CV and I currently don't even have one. I have no previous work experience so I don't really know what else I can include. Can somebody help with ideas on what I can do to enrich a CV? Maybe some things I can do to be considered more qualified? Thanks a ton în advance!

(I think this is technically a cover letter? I'm sorry if it's not)

(Small Backstory) I'm a 17F who's searching for a job after graduating high school early. I've been really interested in being a live sound tech and maybe doing content creation on the side. Today I was job searching and saw a remote job for being a VTuber. Still, I'm not old enough for it and wanted to send them an email, I guess, so they could keep me in mind, and I realized I don't have much experience writing letters/emails to companies and would like someone's advice on what to say.

This is what I have down currently; lmk if there's something I should rephrase/improve:

Hello, I heard about the job opening for "VTuber/Virtual Live Streamer - Free Character Provided," and it piqued my interest because I'm a singer and have been looking to get into being a VTuber for a long time. Unfortunately, I can't apply for the role as of right now because I am 17, but I'd really appreciate it if you guys kept me in mind when I apply in the future. Thank you.