Your CV: less pages, more power

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Welcome to Green Jobs Rising!

The higher you go up the career ladder, the more specialised you become. You start narrowing down to what really matters in your field. 

When you finish campus, you’ll probably do a lot of different things like sales, marketing, volunteering, supermarket activations and so on. 

Your CV ends up packed with all kinds of experiences.

But as you grow in your career and start aiming for supervisor or managerial roles, you should know, employers look for concise, focused CVs, ideally one to two pages. 

It’s perfectly fine to remove experiences that don’t align with your current goals or the role you’re applying for.

If there’s a gap, you can always explain it during the interview. 

You can talk about why you’re only highlighting certain years or what happened after campus. 

It’s better to keep your CV clean than to crowd it with everything you’ve ever done.

When you are starting out, it’s okay to include all those early experiences since you don’t have much else yet. 

But once you reach a certain level, you can start leaving out what’s no longer relevant.

That’s really what talent managers want: a clear, easy-to-read CV. 

When I’m reviewing one, I should be able to tell within the first three minutes whether you move to the next stage. 

We often deal with tight deadlines and many applications, so less is more.

— Goretti Akombe, People Operations & Administration Lead, SokoFresh

We’ve also added a simple video that breaks down the 6-second CV rule, so you know exactly what catches a recruiter’s eye first.