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How to write a Curriculum Vitae (CV) / Resume

You can start your CV by writing some of your general information in the header. For example you can include these topics:

• Name
• Surname / Lastname
• Address
• E-mail address
• Phone number

If you are applying for an job in another country, don’t forget to include your international dialing code, along with your nationality. And of course, include a number where you can be reached if you are going to relocate.

CV Skills Summary

This section of your curriculum vitae includes your main skills. Try to only use keywords, and don’t write a whole story trying to describe your skills. The skill summary is often called personal profile.

CV Objective

This is your CV Personal Profile and here you explain the next step in your career. Keep this short, concise statement that informs the employer what kind of position you are looking for. The type of position, the role (manager, supervisor, contractor) should also be included.

If you are job hunting it is a good idea to have several CV’s with different profiles or objectives. For example, you can have a CV for a sales supervisor and the other for a shop floor manager. Your ‘sales supervisor’ CV can highlight achievements in this area, and the CV would be tuned to that particular in terms of job descriptions and achievements.

Education on your CV

List all of your qualifications in this section. Make sure you include all of your education, including certifications from non-academic institutions, especially those that are related to the job vacancy. Put work experience before qualifications if you have less qualifications than work experience.

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The point of your CV (Curriculum Vitae) is to sell your knowledge and your skills to the employer. The goal is to be interesting enough for an interview. But to achieve that you need to avoid some common pitfalls. These are listed below.

• 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 mistakes 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 employment – 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 job titles 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.

As I have told you before, CV is latin, Curriculum Vitae which stands for “tale of your life”. It is a little more information than you normally include in a resumé. You write your CV where you promote yourself and your skills. After that you write a personal letter suited for the work your applying for. Do not write any standard letters because that will be noticed by he or she that reads your application.

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.

Can you answer the headline question? If not, no problem you will be able to answer it when you have read all of this. If you already know the answer, feel free to read this information anyway because you might still learn something. This text is about Why you should write a Curriuculum Vitae (CV).

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.