Charging in with 55% of the vote, you voted poor spelling and grammar as the worst mistake to make on your CV on our poll. With employers apparently, only spending a grand total of 10 seconds on each application and worse still, some applicants using their CV as a coaster (prior to sending it off according to one poll voter!) – it is no surprise that a new form of applying is creating a buzz in the market.
Type in ‘video CV’ into a well-known video sharing website, and you get almost 220,000 results – from graduates to statistical programmers, all are vying to capture your attention with their short (and often interactive) clips of how they are theideal candidate. 
This phenomenon has created some major success stories (see: Graeme Anthony and his C.V.I.V here) which show the potential of the video CV, whilst other entries make you want hold your paper CV close and never let go (see: this guy).
Here at the PPS offices, we understand how saturated today’s market is. Standing out from the crowd is essential – however, is the video CV the way to go about it?
Will it become the way we assess candidates in the future? Or is it just another time-consuming gimmick (for employers and job-hunters)?
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