How many pages should your CV run to? No more than two pages of A4 is the straight answer. This may prove difficult if you are older and have a sufficient employment history under your belt.
In this case using bullet points will help you to refine the information and, generally, there is no need to go back more than 10-15 years when outlining your employment history.
Use headings as follows:
*Personal details (Name, address)
*Objective (60 word optional statement about your current post and the job you are looking for)
*Education and training (in reverse chronological order. Include a technical summary of the hardware and software that you have experience of.)
*Employment History (or work experience).
*Positions of responsibility
*Interests
*Reference: details of two referees, typically your last two employers.
Personal statements
Personal statements tend to come over as a rather ingenuous hard sell.
Yes, you can say anything you like to try to convince an employer that you are the most hardworking individual in the world, but at this stage your statement is merely words.
