The more things change about working in global development, the more other aspects stay the same. For one, CVs should probably still be written by humans.
“[A hiring manager] said to me once: ‘Why should I be bothered to read what someone else couldn't be bothered to write?’” Kathryn Harper, a professional development CV writer, said during a recent Devex Career event. While artificial intelligence is a fast-evolving tool that can help in some ways, “nobody can tell your story better than you can,” she added.
During the session, Harper fielded questions on a range of topics related to how to optimize your development CV for the 2025 job hunt, from emerging trends such as AI’s role to queries that have been top of mind for generations, such as the ideal CV length.