Hi All,My CV needs a complete overall since I was last sending it out. Id really like to see some examples of good CV's (that have successfully gotten jobs). Would people mind posting (or PM'ing me and emailing) what they consider a good CV template.....obviously Im just concerned about the template so you can blank out everything else. My CV is relatively Basic....as in just done my undergraduate and couple years in an I-bank but don't like my old format and I would like to start from scratch......and I promise not to then post it up for peoples comments. Like I said.....would just like to see Good tenplates.

You might find this helpful I've heard a number of good reports about the things that these guys do, and the various online things that you can subscribe to from there site.RegardsAndy

Given that "andycthomas" has only ever posted once, I rather assume that he's promoting his site.I am deeply skeptical of CV writing services.Even before I was a a HH, I had helped people do CVs, and I have to say that the "right" CV is determined to a large extent by the target. The right CV for the retail bit of abankis wholly different from the trading end. Americans like quite different CVs from Europeans (usually).One CV, we've been fixing recently required reading twice to work out why the person concerned thought he might get a banking job of any kind, much less as a quant.Wasn't a "bad" CV, it just emphasises the wrong things for this sort of work. Had lots of good words, but some very bad terms polluted it.To do a CV upgrade well, you also need to interact with the candidate to get from them the issues that will help them sell to a potential manager.In the olden days a CV was also supposed to show your "character", but of course templates make this worse. Many universities offer help to students in CV writing, and of course people pass round templates, or styles.From a recruiter's point of view this is terrible. CVs all look so much like each other, though of course you don't want to look too weird on your CV.However, spelling errors do look really bad, as does poor grammar. It is always worth passing your CV to a mate just to check.A quite well known lawyer once had "in this work I was assfisted by my team"... Also, I reject flatly the idea that you should have only one CV. Too many eggs in such a small basket.P&D have slightly different ideals for a CV, we like as much detail as possible, partly of course because we understand it. Personally I despise the idea of two page CVs, but have to live with this fashion.We like a final page where you list your skills with an honest appraisal of how good you are, together with where you did it. Something of the formPDEs_________________4/5__ Two courses as undergrad, used at Nomura, UBSMonte Carlo____________3/5___Updated analytics library at DrKwLinear Algebra__________5/5___Core of PhD ThesisC++__________________1/5___Read StroustrupWe like to think that we're smart enough to work out that if you've done PDEs, then presumably you have some grasp of calculus in general.But if we screw up, or your headhunter is one who works purely on keywords that inference may cost you a chance of that job.Thus we like as many skills as possible. For us (and probably only us) it's worth putting in a few vestigal skills where you rate yourself a 1/5.

QuoteA quite well known lawyer once had "in this work I was assfisted by my team"... LOL Dominic i owe you a pint!!! You have just made my day, my whole weekend probably....

Perhaps it wasn't a typo, perhaps he really was proud that his team had fisted him! What an accomplishment. Who knows, it might be a requirement to be made a judge.

Correct. I've only posted once (twice now) But the site is nothing to do with me, and certainly not mine. People would probably not have very good cv's if I wrote them for them!