Have you thought about having a video CV? A few websites are now allowing you to create one but is it something you should do? 

On the face of it, it sounds great – a chance to show your personality and to enhance the written word.

But, as I’ve done some short listing recently, I’m reminded of how quickly you can shortlist using paper CVs. It’s time consuming for companies, a CV can be read through quickly in about a minute but even a short video CV is likely to take 5 minutes and it’s going to be too consuming a task for a recruiter.

It’s also not going to be so easy a job to compare candidates against each other. I’m sure there are other problems – not everyone can afford this software and it contains info that can be seen as discriminatory including about sex and race.

So should you opt for one?

Probably not, I’d advise you to concentrate on getting a great CV together instead.

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