Great CVs: A Tip

Great CVs: A Tip






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Efficiency is the key when putting together a CV for a recruitment agency or employer. Finding a job is your aim so whether it's temporary recruitment, full time employment or a new career you're seeking make your CV as precise and attractive to the eye as possible. This is our fifth tip of ten on great CV's.

In our last tip we looked at the importance of making your CV short, but not too short. Clearly there is a fine art to all of this. Efficiency is ultimately the key and should be the goal of your finished version. Of course you'll want to provide as much information as you can but without the final product looking like a spreadsheet or being pages and pages long.

Let's look at your job history as an example. Under each job provide a short punchy summary of your main responsibilities. It might be an idea to do a few drafts. It's difficult to sum up these things in such a way the first time but to re-write it later is a great idea. That way you won't be scratching your head trying to work out what to say but rather looking for superfluous words and phrases that can be trimmed away. When you've done that do it a third time. This will clearly hone down your information and make it better for a recruiter to scan over. This way they also won't miss anything vital or crucial because all that will be in there will be vital and crucial.

It's important to talk about the results you've achieved in your work history as well as academic achievements and even in your personal life. Perhaps you did a sustained period of voluntary work. Whilst we know people rarely go into voluntary work to sing their own praises later and try and get a better job it'd be crazy not to even mention it. Also if it was for a period of time you'll need to include it or there will be a gap in your work history. Use statistics where possible and keep these kinds of descriptions fairly impersonal. "Achieved 10% sales increase across first two years" would be a good example of this.

Provide as much information as you can, but do it in the most efficient way possible without making the whole thing look like a spreadsheet. Under each job, provide a short, punchy summary of your main responsibilities and role. Talk about the results you achieved. Use statistics where you can, and keep these sorts of description fairly impersonal. If you were talking about your results in a sales based position of employment for example you might say something like - "Achieved 10% sales increase across first two years" for example.

Avoid the first person - I - or third person - your name (other than in the summary at the top of the CV where is can be appropriate).  Just state the facts - so Achieved ... rather than I achieved. 

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