Things to avoid when filling out your CV

Bored of advice on how to find your dream job? Suzanne Harrington casts an arched eyebrow over some of the world’s most rubbish cvs.

Although we all live in a corporatocracy with zero hours security written into our zero hour contracts, the well-presented CV remains stubbornly relevant

In 1482, a 30-year-old Leonardo da Vinci sent one to the Duke of Milan, outlining his pre-Mona Lisa skills as a weapons maker. Covered chariots, portable bridges, catapults, mortars “most convenient and easy to carry” –instead of recounting past achievements in this prototype CV, Leonardo instead chose to list what he could do for this particular employer, in this instance a warring aristocrat.