<byline><![CDATA[£9.95 from <a href="asfunction:Tardis.webPageOpen,http://www.mindscape.co.uk">www.mindscape.co.uk</a>Robbie Hudson’s<br>insider view<br>]]></byline>
<body><![CDATA[The CV Builder sets out to take you through the process of producing a snazzy curriculum vitae, which you will then be able to upload easily to a website or send by e-mail. If your ambitions are limited, it does these things tolerably well. You put your details into a series of forms and the program whisks these into a presentable document that you are then able to tweak, slightly, in terms of order and appearance. The problems, though, are obvious: anything based on a template will have trouble dealing with individual information, or looking distinctive. It was very difficult, for example, to change the order in which ongoing activities are presented, and the solutions involved completing sections incorrectly. The “skills” form also asks you to rate your ability with a number, which is peculiar, but possibly an American thing. The fact that a CV is called a résumé throughout suggests that this may be a repackaged product from the States. The advice that artistic or advertising job hunters will want something special to set them apart from the crowd almost seems designed to steer them away from the uninspiring, if efficient, collection available here, which surely can’t be the intention, but which rather tickled me. While this software makes uploading a CV to a web page very easy, this is the only task even a novice computer user will not be able to perform equally well using a simple word processing program. ]]></body>
