Evergreen Talent Group · 24 September 2026
Engineering and construction hiring managers read CVs quickly. They want to know what you have built, how big it was, what you were responsible for and how it went. A CV that answers those questions in the first half page gets read to the end.
Lead with your projects
For each role, list the main projects with their type, location and value or size, then your part in them.
Project name or type, client sector and location
Value, size or capacity (for example MW for a data centre)
Your role, who you reported to and the team you led
The packages or systems you were responsible for
Show results, not duties
"Responsible for commissioning" says little. "Led Level 3 to 5 commissioning of 24 MW of critical power, handed over two weeks early" says a lot. Use numbers wherever you honestly can.
Make tickets and qualifications easy to find
Put qualifications, authorisations and safety tickets in their own section near the top, with expiry dates where they apply.
Keep it to two pages
Summarise roles older than ten years in a line or two. Use a clean layout without tables or graphics, which many recruitment systems cannot read.
