Top 10 CV Mistakes to Avoid

Typos and grammar errors. A single typo signals carelessness. Read your CV aloud, then ask a friend to.
Vague duties instead of achievements. "Responsible for sales" tells the reader nothing. "Closed $1.2M in B2B sales in 2025" tells them everything.
Generic objective statements. "Looking for a challenging role…" wastes the most valuable real estate on the page. Use a specific summary instead.
Listing every job since high school. Cap older roles at one line if you must include them at all. Focus on the last 10 years.
Walls of text. Recruiters scan. Break content into bullets with whitespace.
Unprofessional email addresses. partyboy42@… is not the email you want recruiters to use.
Mismatched formatting. If one job has bullets, all jobs should. If one date is "Jan 2024", they all should be.
Buzzword soup. "Synergistic results-driven thought leader" reads as zero substance. Be specific.
No file naming hygiene. Save your CV as Firstname-Lastname-CV.pdf, not cv-final-v3-actually-final.pdf.
Skipping the cover letter. When a role asks for one, write one. Skipping signals you don't really want the job.

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