An overly gaudy or decorative presentation can be more detrimental than beneficial. A visually cluttered CV can easily scare off potential employers who are looking for clarity and professionalism.

Our expert CV writer, Roz Fisher relies on journalism training and more than 30 years of professional writing experience to produce a CV that targets your dream job.

AI is useful for expanding on ideas, answering questions and producing specific generic documents, but you can't trust it to generate your CV. For something as important as your future, you still need a human touch!

AI is creating beautiful CVs and résumés that are colourful, decorative and totally unsuitable for the applicant tracking system (ATS), also called CV scanning software. The ATS system requires the complete opposite to what AI is providing - your CV should be plain and simple, black and white, laid out in one column on 2 - 3 pages.