CV Writing Templates
Monday, November 29th, 2010Whether or not a CV writing template is of any value in helping you to write the best CV will depend entirely upon the quality of the template. That may sound obvious, but most of the free (and many of the ‘paid for’) templates I have seen are really worse than useless.
They are frequently based upon a table format with section headings on the left. This has the effect of pushing all of the information onto the right hand side of the page, which makes it look unbalanced. This type of template offers no help at all with creation of suitable content and gives an unattractive presentation. Rather than use this type of template you would be much better following the advice on my website here http://www.cv-consultancy.co.uk/cv-formats/ on how to format a CV. (more…)