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Management Graduates & Boring CVs

Off late I've checked quite a few CVs of MBA graduates from different management institutes. The format of these CVs is so standardized that all candidates look the same.

What is the purpose of a CV by the way? To portray in brief what the candidate is all about. To reflect the goodness of a candidate in some way. To showcase what's special about the candidate.

If CVs are standardized to an extent that one candidate cannot be seen differently from another, then the entire purpose of making a CV is defeated. Besides, how does a recruiter make up his mind? How does he choose one and not the other if there is so little differentiation.

It is an irony of sorts. Management graduates are taught in the class how to differentiate a brand or a company from the others but they are forced not to apply the same principles to their own selves.

One response to “Management Graduates & Boring CVs”

  1. Tushar Jambhekar - tujams Avatar
    Tushar Jambhekar – tujams

    I guess your observation is valid for Campus recruits rather than people seeking job switch.
    As far as I have seen CVs, there is a standardization in terms of CVs that might come representing one institute as a group. This is predominantly a practice used by institutes and many people still dont know how to make a CV.
    Also since CVs are more like a formal communication going out from a college with a students information as a part of it, at times, institutes see this as an oppertunity to sell their brand to the industry.
    I can personally vouch for both the points I have made. As the person handling the placements for the batch, I have spent hours fighting with people who wanted every achievement since KG to be a part of the CV. I have still not understood why the academic topper wanted her status as the Secretary of the Girls Common Room of SRCC to be on her CV.(May be a DU thingy)
    Also format standardization was demanded by the placement cell as ever CV sent was on behalf of the institute. Since the pitch began with I’m from Symbiosis, there was a demand that the CV should live up to a particular standard. Also uniformity was an expression that the college is not playing favourites and giving equal oppertunity to all.

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