CV written in the 3rd person - thoughts?

[Utterpiffle]

Morning all,

I've paid one of those CV writing services to give me a spruce up. Generally speaking, I like the new layout and the way they've formatted/bullet pointed my strengths/experience etc. It certainly looks better than the feeble excuse of a CV that I've been using for the last 20 years.

But... they've swapped it all to the third person. To me, it's rather weird to read through it - not engaging, impersonal, pretentious even. It is as if a teacher is doing a school report for me to take home. Except I'm in my 40's and consider myself reasonably successful and good at what I do.

I've read through many CV's in my time, conducted many interviews - albeit mostly in Germany, but I've never seen one written like this. Has anyone seen this? Is it now the done thing?

Being honest, if I got sent one like this, I'd probably think "cock", and move on to the next one.

I've asked them to re-write it properly, but interested in peoples thoughts/experience of this...

[Utterpiffle]

OK, interesting replies. Thank you.

So perhaps I need to keep it in this format when sending to agencies then (I'm a contractor, so most of my work does comes through them), then have it as a more personable format for job profiles and stuff I apply to directly...

[Utterpiffle]

UtterPiffle has enjoyed reading the comments made on this thread. He thanks you for your input.
The CV is currently being changed to the first person - but not without the CV company trying their best to put a convincing argument against the idea.

It's been a fun exercise though...