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Your CV Looks Like a Mess

Your CV Looks Like a Mess

And That’s Why You’re Not Getting Interviews

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Jeremy Burns
May 19, 2025
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Your CV has one job: get you an interview. But if your layout is one of the bad ones—messy, overdesigned, or hard to scan—it could be killing your chances of getting to the next stage. Let’s look at the worst offenders, the better options, and the one layout that actually works.

You’ve worked your socks off to get through a pesky ATS, and your CV finally…

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