Things To Remove From Your CV If You Must Be Hired

There are some information about you which are considered ‘irrelevant’ and shouldn.t be included in your vitae curriculum (CV).

There has been a case where the applicant added the number of children he has and their ages and number of children.

This Online News Media understand that the recruiter looking at your CV is a human being and humans have bias no matter how much we try to hide them.

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These are things to remove from your CV you must be hired:

1. Your Picture

Your handsome or pretty face might threaten whoever sees it if they are struggling with low self esteem

2. Your full home address

Totally unnecessary, trust me no employment letter will be sent you via NIPOST. We are in 2023 not 1923

3. Your Age

This one Is the oga pata pata of them, I once followed Ekonyohe to one Job interview for support , I saw a man grumbling coming outside an office, saying wetin my age gat to do with anything?

He obviously left his age on his CV and the interviewers left the interview and started talking about his age

4. Marital Status

There is a bias already against married women in the labor market. Many employers already see them as a liability that might not be able to keep up with work because of children and family.

Kindly remove your marital status.

5. State Of Origin

State of origin And local government area are unnecessary and shouldn’t be in your CV. What has your being from Ebonyi state got to do with the job you are applying for?

6. Unnecessary Experience

Why is the part time nanny experience doing on your CV when you are not applying for the role of a child minder?

7. Irrelevant Awards

Including when you won the best behaved pupil in kindergarten is of no important. Honestly too much unnecessary information

8. Your religion

Whether you worship a tree or stone, it’s not relevant to the role.

9. Outdated Skills

Like ability to work under pressure (Trust me if you see pressure, you go run)

10. Hobbies

Why including dancing, singing, cooking etc as part of your skills, seriously? Please you have to be professional.

11. Your Secondary School Education

Your degree and post degree education is what is needed, adding your kindergarten education is just a waste of space.

67 percent of recruiters focus more on the education and skills on a CV than every other thing You can have a one paged CV that will grab the attention of your recruiters.