I am very happy to find this blog.Thanks for creating the page! Im positive that it will be very popular. It has good and valuable content which is very rare these days.

What about for someone who is just out of high school and has basically no experience besides one year in journalism?

One thing that I have seen on a lot of good CVs is to have the skills section on the first page and quite prominent. It would have to be more thorough than yours though. It provides the employer with a quick and easy way to see what you can do without having to read through all of your work history and work it out for themselves.

Hi guys! I have avoided commenting on this myself since it went online on Sunday as I wanted you all to have time to comment openly and honestly.

As so many of you have pointed out, the biggest problem with this CV is the spelling, especially considering I  work in proof-reading these days! To make my excuses, this was a draft I over-eagerly sent into Wannabe Hacks for peer review before giving it a second glance myself. I will make sure I am a lot more careful when I next send out a CV to an employer.

With regards to layout and design, someone suggested I reduce CV to one page. I have to disagree, three pages is too many, but one is not enough. If only because I can’t imagine squeezing entire academic history and work experience onto just one side of A4 without making font teeny-tiny! However, the line for Bay Radio should obviously not be left hanging as a lonely orphan at bottom of page.

I also think demonstrating an awareness of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is worthwhile - in the digital era it’s as significant as knowing to write a news story using the inverted pyramid. However, I agree it makes more sense in the Skills section. I will also remove the 'voluntary' and 'appointed'  brackets as its clunky and not really v informative.

Thanks for all your advice.

I have to say that I really love this series you guys do. Well done! 

Aside from the comments already mentioned I don't think the general section at the bottom adds anything and if anything ends the CV on a bit of flat note when there has been some interesting stuff beforehand.

Also I would either knock the Bay Radio header onto the next page or put some of the content on the first page. I don't like it when something that is kind of the headline is seperated from the content.

@wannabehacks Hey! I know Jack. What's he doing there?! :D

"socail media" misspelled - odd that this and "editior" didn't come up on spellcheck. also "subedit document" should probably be "subedit documents".

the opening sentence is quite convoluted two - consider two sentences with fewer clauses; and I would probably say "experience writing for and editing" rather than "experience IN writing for..."

agreed that two pages is probably too much - there's a lot of white space at the top of pg 1, and things could be more concisely expressed (A-levels don't need a line each).

also - your "skills and interests" doesn't seem to contain any interests [no bad thing] so should maybe just be "skills"?

also I'm not sure how significant the difference between "appointed" and "elected" positions are; seems like an unnecessary distinction to me.

on the plus side, the details for Listed are very impressive - especially sourcing ads. I'm not sure what an "SEO story" is though (perhaps a familiar industry term I don't really know) - to my mind it suggests a fluff article stuffed with keywords rather than thoroughgoing journalism, which is perhaps not what you're going for. You could just stick SEO in "skills" at the end?

It's a good CV, but I've been advised to have a one page CV... so I don't know if that's something that you'd consider doing? Probably wouldn't be too hard to cut it down with some good design. However, if you are going to keep it at 2 pages then you need to make sure the job title and description are on the same page - Bay Radio currently isn't. And as is mentioned below, Arts Editor is spelt wrong, which doesn't give the best impression.

@wannabehacks @JParsons87 Arts Editor is spelt wrong... a big no no for someone whose job is to approve copy.