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  • Corporate Jargon Is Killing Your CV: Why Plain Language Gets You Hired

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    58 per cent of workers say colleagues overuse jargon. Recruiters spend 7.4 seconds on your CV. If those seconds are filled with buzzwords, you get filtered out. A month ago, a job seeker showed me their CV. It read like a corporate dictionary. "Optimised cross-functional synergies to drive organisational excellence." Another line: "Managed stakeholder engagement…