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The first impression!

Your first impression matters a whole lot. If your CV doesn’t attract the reader’s attention in the first minute your chances of an coming interview are less than half. If you think about it for a second, a big company looking for folks to employ. Do you really think you are the only one to be sending an CV in? The employer might have several hundreds of CV as well as only five to look through. Not to mention the guy reading all of those CV probably has a job to do. So start your CV with work experience and after that personal and educational details.

The question of an employer reading CVs is why they should invite that particular writer for an interview. So for this reason there might be a good idea to provide a short summary of your capabilities along with a list of your major achievements in life. Make sure you don’t oversell yourself, the goal is the be wanted by them an not want to get employed as quickly as possible.

CV layout, good/bad

The visual layout of your CV is also very important. Even though you are a master of language use, unless the employer find the information he wants - he will take the next CV in line and probably make your CV to a little basketball and throw it in the garbage can. Use alot of white space in your CV, in other words, more paper than text. Don’t forget to use appropriate headings and section breaks.
The use of machinery for writing your CV i.e computer (word and such word-processors), typewriter or pencil make a big impression according to what kind of job you are trying to get. Don’t use a typewriter/pencil if you are trying for a computer programming job because that might give the wrong impression. A pencil-written CV might be good if you are looking for an esthetic job. Use good quality paper, preferably A4 since that’s standard format.

Lenght of your CV

Opinions vary, some say approximate two pages of A4 and some say up to 20 pages. This of course depends on your age and working skills. Unless the employer specifically asks for a longer CV you should probably try to keep it at a maximum of two A4 pages. If you go over two pages make sure the most important information is on the upper half of the first page. Employers usually don’t want know your whole life history at first. They only want to know enough the decide for an interview or not.

CV organising

A badly organised CV will make it hard for reader to find information and make himself a picture of you. The reader will not spend the entire weekend looking just at your CV, probably not even five minutes. So if he can’t find the information he is looking for he will move on to the next one.
An overwritten CV with long paragraphs and sentences makes it very hard to read. Imagine this page right here with no white areas - only text with no breaks. That would be very hard to read. So try and keep your sentences short with lots of keywords. Also use bullet points or something similar to organise lists under section headings.

Too little information

A lot of CV writers do not include enough details about their previous jobs and experiences. Therefore, and employer does not have all the information he wants and the rejection is a fact.
Be loud about achievements, remeber that your CV is your key to an interview. If it does not fit in your employers door, than you are never getting in. If your CV does not tell an employer why they should hire you, then it has failed. The only way to get employed is when the employer see benefits in it for themselves. Tell them why they should employ you, why you are better than everyone else.

Error handling

It is very important with an good language use. Look up words you can’t spell, use your word-processors misspell checks. Ask others to read your CV and point out poor grammar and misspelling for you. Even the smallest error can make an overall very good CV bad and make you careless.