T he key to keeping your CV to a manageable length is to ensure the information is concise. For a start, most agencies scan hard-copy CVs for storage, so the words need to be recognisable to OCR software. Similarly, CVs produced on ancient manual typewriters with worn-out ribbons are also out. Media U ntil recently, you had to submit your CV by post on paper. You still can - but there are better ways.
Most agencies prefer faxed CVs to paper ones.
This saves precious time - never more important than today, when contracts are won and lost because a CV reaches the client a few minutes ahead of someone else's. F ax machines have never been cheaper, so there's no excuse not to have one. By eliminating the scan of a printed CV, the quality transmitted is improved considerably, as is the speed of the transmission. Files e-mailed within the same access provider, e.g. CompuServe, may be sent unencoded. I recently received an agency letter, saying they resource requirements first from e-mailed CVs, then from those on floppy disks and lastly from hard copies.