• The Layout Counts
  A CV with misspellings does not give a good first impression. Proofread and let some of your friends read through the material. Spelling and careless misstakes can deport your CV to the round archive (trash can) quicker than you could ever imagine.

• Do not lie
  Even though it might be tempting to conceal times of unemployment, quick changes of jobs or other gaps by changing date for employement - don’t. If the employer discovers you, he will probably let you go that same day.

• Do not talk just about your jobtasks
  Do not list all your jobs with boring descriptions of duties and responsibility. Explain what your jobtitles was and how you carried out assignments. Ask yourself what problems and challenges you faced and how you dealt with them. Show what benefits the company got because of you.

• To long or to short
  Often people tell you that your CV should only be one page long but in front of all you should include essential experiences. Do not sift out (exclude) important experiences just because there is no room for them. Also do not include unimportant things.Recruiters wants to know your latest experiences. If you have worked 20 years there is no need to include all of the jobs since the start. 5-10 years back in time is enough. Your CV is not really a autobiography even though some might say it is.

• Do not send your CV to everyone
  Do not get desperate and try searching every job post you see. If you are not the least qualified for a post, save your and the companys time and at least apply for jobs that are near your qualification.

• Irrelevant information
  You should consider including information about your hobbies unless they have something in common with the job. If you apply for a job as a lawyer it could be ok to include your hobbies as reading lawbooks. An librarian post allows for reading books as hobby for example.

• Use keywords
  It is important to include keywords in your CV. If you want tips for keywords a good old trick is to read job advertisements. They usually contains alot of keywords, use these.

• Reverse chronological order
  Always use reverse chronological order when you do lists of previous experience and such. This shows your personal development and makes it easy to see what you have been doing the past years. If you have just graduated, put your education at top.

When your CV has a good layout and is well written your chance increases to further contact and possible an interview.

Include this in your CV:

• Your positive sides aswell as concrete and concise examples.
• Shortly describe your assignments.
• Shortly describe the substance of studies and courses.
• Describe your career goals and what kind of knowledge you want.

Include as headlines

• Goals - What you want to achieve
• Conclusion - Your own estimation of your skills and knowledge, 2-3 positive sides of yourself along with some examples.
• Employments - You list these in reverse chronological order. That is to say latest one first.
• Education - Also in reverse chronological order. Feel free to include bigger articles by yourself.
• Courses - If they fit the vacancy.
• RTW Languages - Reading, talking, writing. Also explain how good you are at each language. For example, Fluent, good writer, reader etc.
• Computer skills - Write down if you are good at computers and some particular program. You can also list major software and explain how good you are to use them.
• Military Service - If you think it might help you.
• Other - Birth of year, family situation, drivers license, interrests, scholarship, foreing country experience etc.

Try to start your sentences with, or have them contain active verbs that highligts your initiative and power to act. For example - completed, planned, established etc.

You can end your CV with something like this: “If you want to see grades and references I will gladly supply them for you!” With this said, you do not really need to include reference persons in your CV. When you are asked for an interview it is time to call your 2-3 references. Then you inform them about your job apply and they can help you. In this way you do not disturb them unnecessary.

To apply for a particular job vacancy.

Yes, people usually read the newspaper. The newspaper contains job ads. Job ads can be interesting and if you find one interesting enough you might think about applying. Be careful to show in your CV that you qualify and even if you don’t, try to make it look like it by pointing out for example job experience. Just follow all instructions in the post and remember that anything is possible.

To apply for a new kind of job in a different category

Has your career goals changed? Do you master everything in your life and are looking for new challenges? Write a CV and highlight any previous experience, skills or qualifications in this new category. It is also a very good idea to include some kind of reason for your career change because your new employer probably wonder why you want to change job.

To apply for a similiar job

You are satisfied with your job, you get along good with colleagues but your boss is a real pain in the ass. Do you want the same job as now, but somewhere else? When you want to change your place of work, make sure you point out your achivements in your CV. Highlight the things you are skilled with and show the new employer that you should be in his team.To apply for a job within a different field.

A life achievements summary

It is always a good idea to have all your skills on a paper because you never know when a good opportunity will show up. Just keep your CV updated and add courses, skills and qualifications when you achieve them. This is good if you suddenly want to apply for a new job and then you do not have to write a CV in a hurry, everything is already written. You also will not have any problem remebering all things you have done in life. Do not forget to edit your CV so that it fits the new job post you are applying for.

Do you know that your CV is the key for the company door? You want the job and you are ready for it - but does your key fit? How do you make your CV interesting, and that key to fit?

• For each job, write a New CV. You should specifically design them to answer the questions of the actual job requirements. It is usally not a good idea take a standard format CV template from word and just fill out and send in. If you do this - do not expect any overwhelming reactions.
• Make yourself gold worth for employers. You are to be Wanted, not the opposite.
• Collect as much information about the company and the job as possible. The more you know, the easier it gets for you to match the job requirements.
• Pay attention to market trends, latest training and technology as well as the right terminology (jargon). Use this and let them know what you master.
• The CV formatting should be pleasant to the readers eyes. Think of alignment, chosen font and fontsize (not too small and not too big), margins and paper quality. All of this should be chosen with the job applying for in mind. For example, if you apply for art director, a colorful and estethic styled CV would probably help you.
• Try highlighting special keywords that explains alot. As pointed out in other documents on CV Creator, the employers often has only a few seconds to read each CV. Make sure the text getting attention is worth it.
• Keep your CV interesting with short sentences and use bullet points when you do lists.
• Use good manners according to the region or country you are seeking to. Give the employer good expectations with the CV and higher when on interview.
• Point your value for the job and company out.

The goal of your CV is to invite the employer to get to know you better. The above list is only for help and there is no must that everything is to be followed. Make sure you make a good first impression with your CV, open the employers mind that you might be the right one for the job.

Do not include this:

• The Reasons for leaving earlier jobs.
• If you are a scientist, do not include a list of publications unless you are asked for it.
• Cool frames/borders - This is usually just annoying and pulls attention from your text.
• Use date of birth instead of age. Weight, health, hair color, or any other personal information irrelevant should not be included because it does not matter.
• Photo/Photos - Only include photos if requested or when applying for modelling, acting, waitress and such.
• Take time and effort to make your CV look like one of a kind. You do not want the look of cheap photocopies because that will make it look like you are sending alot of CV to alot of employers and do not really care who you work for.
• Salary demands - It is easier to let you go when reading your CV than after two interviews knowing you are the right person for the job. If requested, include it.
• Failures - All of us experience failures sometime in life, do not shout about it. Failures might include exams, bad marriages, alcoholic problems, etc.
• Religion - This is just irrelevant and there is no need to include this unless you are applying for something that follows a certain religion.
• Ethnics - This should not matter and if it does, I am sure you do not want the job anyway.
• Repetion - Words and sentence repetion should be exclude.
• Long words, jargong or other words that you usually do not use - Do not include this because this will make a false picture on who you are and the employer might be dissapointed when you are on interview.
• Modest description of yourself - You should promote yourself.