CV advice
CV advice
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on a CV would you list actual projects worked on, value, what you did etc or just give general overview of duties at an employer. Worst case I am thinking of is someone from another organisation that the agency sends CV out to will recognise the projects and this person will know someone at the present company. I know some agencies do not modify CV's to resrict information on them.





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While there was so much variation between them as to make it almost useless, one fairly consistent theme was the idea of giving specific examples rather than lists of general duties.
Now whether this in turn matches with what some of the folks here that do more reviewing of CV's for candidates than I think, I couldn't say.
You don't necessarily have to be over specific, for instance, you could say you worked on a certain type of bridge/building rather than giving the name of the building.
There are some differences between typical British CV style/format and US resume style/format (such as many in the states recomend single page) but I'm not sure if this is one of them.
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Either of these is fine, IMHO.
-mechanical engineer(did blah, blah, blah) for 2x1 combined cycle project in CA.
-mechanical engineer (did blah, blah, blah) for [Name Here] 2x1 combined cycle project in CA.
As long as you are honest about what you did and were nice to your co-workers, no need to worry about someone knowing someone who knows who you are.
Sort of a funny story. . .
When I was a first-year engineer, I did the home office field support/project wrap up for a particular power plant project, and the field engineer that I worked with was kind of a jerk and ended up getting terminated before the project was closed out. 7 years later, I was interviewing him for a position at a different company. He didn't know who I was, but I placed him because his resume had that project name on it. I didn't hire him.
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