The five CV mistakes costing experienced candidates interviews

Most CVs from experienced people fail for the same reasons.\n\n**1. Duties instead of impact.** "Responsible for the budget" says nothing. "Reduced supplier costs 18% on a £4m budget" says everything.\n\n**2. Front page wasted.** A profile paragraph of adjectives, then the good content on page two. Reverse it.\n\n**3. No scale.** Team size, revenue, headcount, geography. Without those numbers a reader cannot place you.\n\n**4. Twenty years of equal weight.** The last five years deserve most of the page. Summarise the rest in three lines.\n\n**5. Formatting that breaks parsing.** Tables, text boxes and headers stop screening software reading your CV at all.