Insights:November 2020

Your CV will have more impact if you quantify all your achievements: turnover, fee income, profits, assets under management; as well as fund performance, net sales wins, etc.

For greater impact, your CV should list only the top two or three responsibilities that helped the boat go faster.

Hiring companies are much more interested in reading about your key achievements than long lists of responsibilities.

Your CV will have more impact if you tailor it to specific roles.

You should probably have one ‘master deck’, which lists all the jobs you have ever had; and then various tailored CVs, cherry picking all and only the sub-set of jobs from the master deck relevant to the specific role you are applying for.

For people who want to change roles or industries, or who have less conventional career paths, then a skills-based CV can have greater impact than the traditional CV.

One of the first dilemmas people have when writing CVs is whether it should be a one page summary or spread over several pages.  I recommend having both.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t exist… There is no such thing as The Perfect CV.  If you talk to 100 different people, you will get 100 different opinions.

But here are our recommendations on how to write a good CV.

We are pleased to announce that Deborah Pridemore has joined Godliman Partners as an Associate Consultant, based in the US.

Deb has nineteen years’ Asset Management executive search experience and will help us to execute assignments both in North America and the EMEA region.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t exist.

There is no such thing as The Perfect CV.   If you talk to 100 different people, you will get 100 different opinions.  But here are my own recommendations on how you can improve the impact of your CV.