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Recruitment consultants that I know say they do everything manually - ie they will scan your CV for about 10 seconds (if that!) and make a judgement call based on relevant experience / quals / skills. So putting tons of action words in 0.1 pt white font will do nothing.
My best advice is make sure that the key words / phrases from the person specification appear somewhere in your CV / application form. Make sure all the 'essential' skills are represented and at least mention one or more 'desireables'. Use the employer's exact wording if possible. Check your spelling and grammar ffs! And don't say anything you can't back up at interview.
Public sector is a bit different but I've not bothered to talk about that since CVs aren't commonly requested. Actually, now I'm second guessing myself, a lot depends on what exactly you're doing - sending a speculative CV to a company, applying for a proper advertised job, passing your CV to somebody following a personal recommendation or getting yourself on an agent's books. Anyway...
Best of luck!
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
You simply start your CV with "Handsome Chris - Cobol programmer - not C# Java JSP .net jQuery...".
It's what everyone else will be doing.