A smart double cuffed white shirt – half price at Marks & Spencer (if you are American, Marks & Spencer is like Maceys). Half price not bad – I’ll have one. Having paid, I thought that’s a lot and looked at the bill, I’ve been charged the full price – I had better go back. Anyway, I returned to the display area and there it was Half price, £ 39.50 – in clear BIG writing – sure that’s nice and clear – when I looked further, in very small writing (they’ve tried to obscure it) it said, buy one, get the second one half price.
My point being is that we read the headlines, we don’t read the small print / the finer detail and it’s the same when it comes to your CV.
So when writing your CV, make sure you include your really strong points (your headlines) but don’t obscure them by giving too much detail about insignificant ones – any value they may add is likely to be questionable, you may just end up camouflaging your strongest points with your weak ones.
