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Bad Ideas for your CV
- Coloured paper, although they ask you for 12 copies, it’ll still be photocopied
- Meaningless boasting: ‘a dynamic achiever’
- Jargon: not all who read are physicians
- Gaps. If you spent a year in Tibet, say so
- USE OF UPPER CASE (aggressive)
- Underlining sections
- Using exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Attempts at humour, especially irony
- Not proofreading it
- Underselling yourself
- Gloating about your achievements (think team)
- Telling lies or exaggerating
- Putting it in too fancy a binder
- Stapling it in the top left‐hand corner
- Relying on the spellchecker
- Mentioning the journals you’ve submitted to
- Making a long list out of research in progress
- Putting it in chronological order (put most recent first)
- Copying your friend’s one
- Not taking a copy to the interview