CV

I made this [letter] very long only because I have not had the leisure to make it shorter.  -- Blaise Pascal

When we moved to Australia, a couple of recruiters called me out because my resume, done in American style, was only two pages.  Australian CVs are expected to be multiple pages, if justified.  So I made a longer one and have been using it ever since.

UK companies apparently expect only two pages at max.  So today I took my five page CV and somehow pared it down to just two pages.  It was a pain, and not just because I had to fight with Word.

But: it's been submitted now to a UK jobs website, so to some extent, the die is cast.  I suspect I will have to do a lot more work than just waiting for companies to come to me, but we were getting antsy about actually starting to make something happen, so this is a good step.