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Definitely cut it down to at least two pages, employers won't want to scan through three pages. Perhaps start with your career and have the bulleted skills listed later on. Have your name in a larger font at the top, with your address, number and email below in bold (this could help save space plus you want employers to easily find your name!) Clear formatting is essential, highlight the best things you have done perhaps in bullet points or in short punchy sentences. Your qualifications section is a little confusing, so keep the institution, title of degree, time spent there and grade achieved all on one line if possible. I was also told by an editorial assistant that if you have a MA/degree you do not have to put your A-levels, GCSEs as well. If you've got a degree, then its obvious that you got GCSEs so thats another handy way of cutting it down! Design wise- you're not a designer, you're a writer as long as its presented clearly, written well and isn't too long then there is nothing wrong with a classic CV. Hope this all helps!

'Worked in a news environment and for one year as the editor of the Salford Student Direct' doesn't need the 'and' as I assume both statements are talking about the same thing. And GCSEs shouldn't have an apostrophe! Little things but I reckon mistakes like that could potentially have a really negative impact on an employer's opinion of you - especially in an industry based on writing and attention to detail. And personally I would leave off doing anything exciting with the design unless you're an expert - a uni CV adviser told me not to bother with MS word templates and only have a go at something a bit more outlandish if I knew what I was doing well enough to do a decent job myself. Better it look smart albeit a bit boring than exciting but shoddily done. Don't know what everyone else thinks about this? Hope this helps anyway :)

Try and cut it down to 2 pages (maybe even one page!)

As for the personal profile, instead of stating in quite a bit of detail what the CV then goes on to tell you, why not put something about what kind of work you're looking for. For example, mine says something like "Final year journalism undergraduate student with experience in local newspapers and national magazines seeking a role as a reporter."

I've also been advised to include contact details of a referee on your CV as it saves someone having to ask for them, and if you're good you wouldn't be scared of them phoning your referee without you knowing!

I would cut it down to two pages, take out the published work and make it look a bit more eye-catching. The layout and design could be improved. Make your name at the top bigger and add your personal details with your blog URL just under that.

Published work should be in your blog. Just refer to the very best achievement in your covering letter.

Put some of the best skills from work attachment in the Skills section.

Use 2 pages - maximum. No-one's that good!

Take care with that word 'driven' - some editors would see it negatively.

If it's a CV, call it that at the top.

Not a great display of your design / typographical skills.

Why not include references now?

Give your blog url / skype/ Twitter in contact details

No point in using Personal Profile to state what's in the CV. Describe you as a person - what you're like, not what you can do.

I personally am not a fan of putting a short blurb under your contact details (and I used to do it until a recruiter advised against it) - with luck the rest of the CV will tell this bit for you.

Remove the 'unpaid' from work experience, and the 'online' from the end of blog in the interests section, unless there is such thing as an offline blog. Try and condense to two pages by editing the formatting/spacing on the first page.

I'd get rid of all the "Published Work" section - I think you can save that for a porfolio. Keep the CV about your experience and qualifications?

I think you might want to format it into two columns too, to make better use of the space around your skills section.

Three pages is a bit long you have some great experience so maybe put it on the first page?