Recommendation by Companies

Google

As described here Google shares tips for the best CVs:

Keep CV simple and highly readable
- PDF format
- no objective / sentence
- black text, font, size simple and consistent
- No typos
- Bullet points
- put contact info prominent (name, email and phone, github link)
- single page if possible (except for engineering / technical where a lot of projects might be relevant)
Custom CV for every position you apply
X by Y by Z formula
- "Accomplished X as measured by Y, by doing Z."
- Be sure to have quantitative measures such as:
  - second place out of 50 teams
  - selected out of 275 applicants
  - grew revenue by 15 percent
Advanced formatting:
- experience before education (if long out of school)
- school: name, degree, major, GPA and date of graduation
Technical skills listed prominently
- mention which tech tools used for which project