I’ve just received a CV from a candidate who’s working for a high profile company in a key role – its relevent to my sector, I’ve printed off a hard copy however as I am reading it, I’m thinking this is rather blurred, I’m struggling to read it and its requiring a lot of effort. Its making me tired and I’m losing interest now.
Why has the person written it in such small writing and then I think perhaps I’m old fashioned reading it on paper – so I went back to the screen version (this CVs in Adobe – bad news for recruiters like me – we either need to ask for a new one in word or format the CV from scratch for which we dont have time).
Looking at the screen version, I zoom the detail – much more comfortable but I’m left with a poor impression.
Even if the CV is viewed on screen, when interviewing with a company and seeing several people invariably at one or more points someone interviewing the candidate will read it from a hard copy and with an 8 point text size – this candidate’s CV isnt going to shine.
