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Your CV (Curriculum Vitae) Is The Business Card You Give To The Company Where You Are Going To Apply, Usually Combined With Your Cover Letter

Your CV summarizes your relevant education, work experience, skills, and other qualifications. It should include your personal details at the top, followed by your studies, work experience listed chronologically with the most recent first, languages known and proficiency levels, computer skills, interests and other activities. Tailor your CV to the specific position by only including relevant experience and skills. Some tips for improving your standard CV include using a professional email address, including hyperlinks, focusing on relevant experience, being honest, tailoring the CV to each job application, keeping it to two pages or less, ensuring clear formatting and layout, proofreading for errors, and saving as a PDF file.

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Your CV (Curriculum Vitae) Is The Business Card You Give To The Company Where You Are Going To Apply, Usually Combined With Your Cover Letter

Your CV summarizes your relevant education, work experience, skills, and other qualifications. It should include your personal details at the top, followed by your studies, work experience listed chronologically with the most recent first, languages known and proficiency levels, computer skills, interests and other activities. Tailor your CV to the specific position by only including relevant experience and skills. Some tips for improving your standard CV include using a professional email address, including hyperlinks, focusing on relevant experience, being honest, tailoring the CV to each job application, keeping it to two pages or less, ensuring clear formatting and layout, proofreading for errors, and saving as a PDF file.

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HOW TO WRITE A GOOD CURRICULUM VITAE

The standard structure of a good curriculum vitae


Your CV (curriculum vitae) is the business card you give to the company where
you are going to apply, usually combined with your ​cover letter​. Your CV is a
sum of short sentences that explain who you are, what you are capable of and
what working experience you have. If you do not have any experience with
making or delivering a CV, guidelines could be helpful. So,
What exactly do you include in your CV?

A. Personal details
Your personal details are always on top of your CV. At least state your name,
address, phone number, e-mail address, marital status, nationality, date of birth
and place of birth. Nowadays it is usual, at least, if you are using it in a
professional way, to add your ​LinkedIn​ and ​Twitter​ account.
B. Studies
State all your relevant studies and courses that you have taken. Start with the
last study you were doing or all still doing and work in a chronological way
back. State the name of the educational institution, diplomas/degrees you have
obtained and the dates.
C. Work experience
Under the heading work experience will be the enumeration of jobs you have
had. The same here, start with the most recent job you have had and work your
way back into history. State the name of the companies for which you have
worked, the location, the job title you filled and a short job description.
Depending on the function you are applying for, leave irrelevant jobs behind.
D. Knowledge of languages
In your CV, state what languages you speak and for every language indicate a
level (in writing and orally) the best lay out is as follows: fluent, good, moderate
for oral skills and good, moderate for writing skills.
E. Computer skills
Indicate what computer programs you control and how well you do it. Think
about software packages but specific systems as well.
F. Interests and other activities
Lastly, state all issues you think are important but have not shown up in your
CV yet. Think about hobbies, interests and other relevant topics that say
something about you. Do not forget to state your other activities, if you have
done any administrative functions or voluntary work, you state this as well of
course. Use the last part of your CV to make it as personal as possible.

15 tips to pimp your standard CV


Have you read the ​standard requirements of making a CV​?​ Have you included
everything? Then it is about time to adjust your CV to the type of employee and
position.
Fifteen tips to change your basic CV to a successful killer-CV.

1. Place your contact details: on top of your CV​, not only state your contact
details but also your e-mail address, your LinkedIn and Twitter account, as long as
you use it professionally, or your website URL.

2. Use a professional e-mail address: [email protected] is not very


representative.

3. Photo, yes or no?A face is easier to remember between the pile of CV’s but
make sure the photo is professional, representative and clearly visible. Don’t you
have a picture like this, or not? Ask your closer circle what they think or just don’t
use it.

4. Use hyperlinks in your text: for example to your LinkedIn profile or to a


blog or projects you have realized and have online. Select the text that you want to
link, click on the right mouse button and choose “hyperlink”. Then fill in the URL
of the site you want to link. Note: too many hyperlinks will make your text
unreadable and thus will have an adverse effect.

5. Only include relevant working experience in your CV: An employer in the


communication sector might not be interested that you have worked as a shelf
stacker. Don’t you have a lot of work experience and are you afraid that your CV
will be too short? Just spent more time on extra activities. Maybe you have worked
for the school paper or you are very good at Photo shop.
6. Be honest: There is nothing wrong with over-colouring your CV but never
lie. It can come out in the job interview or even after you have been hired. If you
still have to apply for other jobs afterwards, this is never a good reference.

7. Make a basic CV: Write down everything you have done including
languages, computer skills and hobbies. Then adjust your CV for every job so that
it fits the function requirements in the vacancy.

8. Do not make it too long: Even though you have done a lot for the past few
years, you cannot put everything in your CV​. It has to fit on two sides.

9. Make sure it is clearly aid out: is everything neatly lined out? Does it look
clear? Do you have the same enumerations signs everywhere? The lay-out of your
CV gives the first impression even before somebody reads your CV. Do not use
undue fonts because it distracts from the content.

10. Put your name in the header of the document: double click in the top of the
document where you cannot write. Insert a header text and write for example
curriculum vitae (your name). Handy when the HR-employee mixes up CV.

11. Print your CV: So that you can see if it still looks good this way.

12. Avoid errors: let somebody who is good at texts read your CV. Just like writing
a cover letter, you have become a bit word blind in the end. Somebody else can
pick the little mistakes out.
13. Are you all ready? Save the result as a pdf, this way nobody can change it
anymore. It looks way better as well. Use a practical name.

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