To put the odds on your side when you are looking for a job, there are some useful tips to know for your CV. In particular concerning personal information that can play against you.
Hard hard to attract the attention of a recruiter when you apply for a job and the latter probably received dozens of other applications; As a reminder, France has 2.3 million unemployed. So, just as for his real estate rental file, you might as well make everything nickel on the CV! Here are some precious tips that will certainly avoid certain unforgivable mistakes. There is one in particular that everyone does without paying attention to it …
Experts in the employment sector have long advised not to give their family situation – especially for women who have children and unfortunately see themselves at the start penalized by this – but also, more and more, of Do not mention your date of birth on your CV. And for good reason, some unscrupulous recruiters may judge candidates who are too young or too old to occupy the position to be filled or can use this information to negotiate the wages down in the case of junior candidates or with only a few years of experience. A few thousand euros on the annual gross salary can thus fly during negotiations …
But the personal information that the vast majority of candidates put on a CV without paying attention to it and which must be passed concerns the place where you live. For recruitment specialists, it is thus strongly advised not to give your full address but simply his city of housing and not to lie on it. A candidate who lives in Lille but postulates in a company in Paris who does not offer a post in Full Remote Or with several days of telework, for example, waste his time the recruiter and definitively gritles his CV in this box for the future …
But, above all, by displaying the full address of your home – namely the street or the building number or the house – you expose yourself to the risk that the recruiter easily calculates your journey time on Google Maps, between your residence and company premises. Thus, he will be able to know if you will have to take a lot of public transport or stay for hours in your car. Which can play against you in case of strikes, social movements, snowfall etc. Here you are warned!
