[bastijn]

Not a recruiter or HR but do read quite some CVs nonetheless. My take for software engineering:

* keep it simple. I want to scan your CV in a minute or two to see if it is worth reading. Skip the fancy fonts, images, charts or flowers etc.

* I typically go work experience > recommendations/achievements if any > summary/profile > name, stop. If I'm not having my next meeting in 5 minutes I may go education, remainder I often not read. (sorry)

* I find skills and education worthless often and skip when I'm in a hurry. People inflate skills and using a skill in a 5 person company is very different from an enterprise. Education these days doesn't say much in Europe. No top colleges like MIT.

Often the only thing that really matters to me is work experience. It allows me to judge if you're used to our kind and size of problems. In a talk I'll learn how fast you can learn.

That having said. I can imagine for a design related job you want people to express themselves on their CV.