[bamazizi]

Quick scan of your resume as someone who interviews 20-40 people/year (although not so much lately) ... I couldn't figure what you're actually great at. Strengths, passion and project type gravitation?

FYI, your resume is shallow but still better than a lot I see each year. For someone like me to decide who to interview and spend that 1 hour on, comes down to info presented on resume intended towards the people reading the resume and fit feel to the job description.

Tips:

- Post resume in "doc" format and not "pdf" this is because most recruiters and HR feed resumes to parsing engines that match content of resume to job description for keyword matching.

- Recruiters have a DB of thousands and thousands of resumes, for each job posting, they can only refer top 3. They only get paid if the candidate is hired and bonus if they stay more than a year! So know who your target audience is.

- Interviewers hate doing interviews too! Resume is easiest way to get a feel and reject allocating the interview slot time.

[RadiozRadioz]

I would advise against using Word doc format instead of PDF. I feel quite strongly about this.

1. PDF will render more consistently across platforms.

2. PDF can be opened in a web browser. Lots of orgs these days use cloud tools, you can't count on MS Office being universal any more. Also on a phone without additional apps, which is surprisingly common too.

3. Default PDF exports from most tools will include fonts, default Word exports don't. This makes opening Word docs annoying on machines with different fonts (or restricts you to "safe" fonts, which is probably a good thing, but this post is about formats not CV design)

4. Opening PDFs, there's less "junk". Opening Word docs in Word, you see all the squiggles under technical terms and non-Western names, draggable icons on tables, tooltips, etc. When I open someone's CV and Word throws up a bunch of popups about the document containing macros, "objects", fonts I don't have, it puts me in a bad mood for the next few minutes.

5. PDF can certainly be read by CV parsing engines. No question.

6. Having been on the receiving end, in my experience PDF is simply more common. Make the reader's job easier.

And you shouldn't use "doc" anyway, modern versions of Word use docx.

[flurdy]

I hate word docs, and used to insist my CV as PDF only. I have turned up to interviews only to see the other side having a completely mangled CV in front of them...

But intermediate recruiters love them as they need to add their header to it. They can export and import etc a PDF but it is much more effort so in a famine market like now a PDF is likely to be discarded for the 50 word doc CVs they also received for the same role...