5 Ways Youre Wasting Space On Your CV

5 Ways Youre Wasting Space On Your CV When it comes to your CV, you only have a limited amount of space (maximum two sides of A4) in which to show off your skills and experience and demonstrate your relevancy for the role so needless to say, you need to make sure that the info you include counts. Think youre doing a pretty good job of maximising the space on your CV? You might want to think again Thanks to the launch of our new SmartList tool  (click here to register your CV), weve recently had to look through a lot of CVs (and I mean a lot!) and weve noticed that a lot of job seekers are still filling their CVs up with random, irrelevant info which is just wasting space and which isnt actually going to help them bag the job theyre applying for. To point you in the right direction, weve come up with the top five most common ways job seekers are wasting valuable space on their CVs. 1. Including Your Marital Status: Single? Married? Divorced? Have two kids? Thats great but its just not relevant to any job youre applying to. Seriously, youre applying for a job, not a dating site so its definitely a good idea to leave the status of your love life off your CV. 2. Including A Photo: Unless youre applying for a modelling job or a job which relies on your stunning good looks, including a photo on your CV is just a downright waste of space and it could actually end up working against you. Why? Because like it or not, sometimes we judge people on looks and if for some reason an employer doesnt like the look of your pretty little face and your CV is just OK,  you could end up in the no pile. 3. Including Irrelevant Jobs: This is one of the most common mistakes we see here at Bubble Jobs candidates including every single job theyve ever had on their CV, regardless of whether theyre relevant to the role theyre applying for. Trust us you dont need to include every job youve ever had. In reality, an employer only really cares about the jobs youve had in the last five years or so and even less if youve totally started a new career or youre right at the start of your career. Rather than including every job youve ever had, its much better to use the space describing the jobs youve had which are relevant to the role and which include key words that an employer would want to see. 4. Including Cliche Hobbies: Enjoy exercising? Socialising with friends? Listening to music? Yawn so does everyone else. Including cliche hobbies like these is just a waste of space because they wont help to set up apart from the other candidates and will just end up being skim-read 5. Including Reference Info: Think you have to include the contact details of your references on your CV? Think again. Simply putting References available upon request is more than enough and it means that you never have to worry  about a potential employer contacting one of your references behind your back, particularly if one of them is your current boss!