CV - Personal Statement?

[agent006]

Evening gang,

I'm just re-doing my CV. Last done about 4 years ago. I'm reading a lot of advice about including a small Personal Statement as a kick off. Sort of a "Hey, I'm this this and this, aren't I great" few lines.

This wasn't around last time I did my CV. Is it something that you (as an interviewer, for an IT role) would welcome or would I look like a jumped up mobile phone salesman?

[agent006]

zcacogp said:

What do you do?

IT. A 3rd Line Infrastructure role is what I'm sending it for.

[agent006]

NorthernBoy said:

Apart from the professional and educational history, I just add one thing to fill in some more information about me, which is the phrase "Boxing Blue". It seems to serve pretty well to explain a bit more about me, my interests and my attitude.

That, alone, got me in front of the head of HR for my first banking job, and has opened many doors since.

I've no idea what that means. Google tells me you either wasted time at university playing sport, or you can hack old fashioned telephone exchanges.

The more I read about these personal statements the less inclined I become to include one on my CV.

[agent006]

NorthernBoy said:

It was hardly a waste of time. As I pointed out above, it's opened about as many doors for me as the physics degrees have. It also taught me the self-discipline that, without which, I'd likely have never achieved half of what I have since.

Without tongue in cheek this time, do you find that it's only fellow OxBridge graduates that have a high appreciation of OxBridge degrees? The difference between "he's come from Cambridge, he's probably quite good" and "he's from Cambridge, we must have him".