5 Steps To Follow For A Successful And Sound CV

To get a really good job position you should first impress your employer at the interview. To make a good impression at the interview you should get shortlisted first. To get shortlisted you should make the employer interested to meet with you and that can be done through the right CV only. Read these tips of composing the best CV ever. 

CV or Curriculum Vitae comes from the Latin and means “courses of life”. When writing your CV it is essential to mention your entire educational, professional and personal achievements background. It is also important to make it easy-to-read so it should be well-structured. And last but not least each CV should be tailored to the requirements of the job position you are applying to. Follow these easy steps and make your CV a brilliant one!

Structure & Content

The first thing to be stated in your CV is your Name and Surname, email-address, telephone number, and your post address. This will make you easier to contact when you get shortlisted for an interview.

Secondly, you state your professional background. You write all the job positions and companies you worked for starting from the latest and continuing with the first one. Don’t forget to mention the dates and years of you holding this or that position and a small description of your main tasks. 

Then we proceed with your educational background. It should contain college, University, and other higher education institutions you’ve finished. Remember about the specialization you got and the academic degree you’ve achieved. It would also be a plus to mention some of the additional education like exchange programs or internships. Include some description of the skills you got there and how it may help you in your professional growth.

Now state your hobbies and interests. Remember that most of the jobs you’re applying for are team-work oriented. That means you are to work with people and you are to communicate and negotiate with them. Make a list of educational, sport or voluntary clubs you attended at school, college or University and pick up the ones that can show your leadership qualities. It can be “a captain of a soccer team” or “an organizer of a charity program”. Don’t state anything inactive like watching TV or reading books. That’s boring and very common. Distinguish your CV among others.

inally, state some of your special skills and knowledge that are necessary to have or that give your CV advantages. These might be “computer knowledge: Microsoft OS, Power Point, C++ programming”, “languages spoken: English, French, German”, or there might be special courses you completed. Don’t forget to state the level of your proficiency in each of these fields or test scores if you passed any.

Stick to no more than two pages of A4. A good CV is clear, concise and makes every point necessary without waffling. You don’t need pages and pages of paper – you just keep things short and sweet. Employers receive dozens of CVs all the time so it’s unlikely they’ll read each one cover to cover. Most will make a judgment about a CV within sections, so stick to a maximum of two pages of A4 paper.