Every industry reads a CV differently.

IT hiring is filtered by stack before it is judged by ability. A CV that buries the stack loses before anyone forms an opinion of the candidate.

Banking CVs are read for risk before they are read for talent. Regulatory exposure and product knowledge decide whether your experience transfers.

Engineering CVs travel badly when the standards are left out. The codes you have worked to are the first thing an overseas employer checks.

In healthcare, registration and licensing are checked before anything else. A brilliant clinical CV with unclear registration status stalls at the first gate.

Hospitality employers read for scale and standards: the size of the property, the brand you operated under, and the guest numbers behind your claims.

Software product companies hire for what you shipped and what it changed. A CV that reads like a task list from a ticketing system tells them neither.

Security CVs are read by people trained to spot overclaiming. Certifications open the door, but the incidents, controls and environments you can name are what get you through it.

Data hiring managers want to see a decision at the end of every bullet. Dashboards, pipelines and models only count when someone used them.

Finance CVs are judged on the size of the numbers you influenced and the decisions you supported. A list of reports produced tells a finance director almost nothing.

Accounting employers check two things before reading further: your qualification status and whether you trained in practice or in industry. Everything else is read through those two facts.

Insurance employers read your CV by line of business first. Property, casualty, life, health and specialty lines are different jobs, and a CV that does not say which one you know will not be read closely.

Construction employers read CVs as project histories. The value, type and stage of each job, and what you personally delivered on it, matter more than any list of duties.

Manufacturing CVs are read against production numbers. Output, yield, downtime, scrap and safety tell a plant manager more than any description of responsibilities.

Logistics CVs are judged on flow: how much moved, through what network, at what cost and service level. A CV without volumes reads as a job description.

Tourism CVs are read for markets and product. Employers want to know which source markets you sell to, what you packaged, and which systems you booked it through.

Retail is measured weekly, and retail CVs should be too. Sales against target, margin, shrink and conversion say more about a store manager than any list of duties.

FMCG CVs are read for share, distribution and volume. Brands and categories are named, and so are the numbers behind them.

A marketing CV is a piece of marketing. If it cannot show a clear audience, a clear offer and measurable results, the reader draws the obvious conclusion.

HR professionals read CVs for a living, which makes their own CV harder to write. The standard is higher, and generic people language is spotted immediately.

Education employers check three things first: your qualification to teach, the curriculum you know, and the age group you have taught. Everything else comes after.

Oil and gas CVs are read for asset, phase and HSE. Employers need to know what you worked on, at what stage of its life, and how safely you did it.