5 serious signs that your CV needs immediate rewriting

📅 2026-07-06 ⏱️ 5 minute read ✍️ CVVApp Career Team

Do you send your resume to dozens of jobs and receive no response? Here are 5 signs that the problem lies in the way you write your resume.

When do you decide that the problem is in the CV and not in the market?

The market may be difficult, but if you are constantly sending your CV and not even getting an invitation for an initial interview, then most likely your CV is not performing its marketing function properly. Watch for these signs:

The 5 Signs

  1. You send a resume and no response: If you send more than 30 resumes to jobs that actually match your qualifications and don't get a call back, this is an indication that the ATS system is rejecting your resume due to poor formatting or lack of keywords.
  2. Your resume is a job description: If the bullet points under your experience are a boring list of responsibilities (example: greeting clients, responding to Phones) instead of achievements (improve customer rating by 40%), you are not convincing anyone.
  3. Contains an outdated career objective: Old phrases like “I am looking for a job to develop my skills in a leading company” are a thing of the past. Replace it with an executive summary that highlights your value.
  4. Unprofessional design: If you use strangely colored Word tables or poorly-resolution company logos.
  5. Excessive length:If your experience is less than 10 years and your resume exceeds two pages, you are weakening your message by mentioning unimportant details.