What is a CV?
Curriculum Vitae: It is an outline of a job seeker’s
educational and professional history. a CV is also known as a résumé.
A CV conveys your personal along with professional details
in the way that presents you authority.
We can say that a CV is a marketing document in which you are marketing
yourself! You need to "sell" your skills, abilities, qualifications
and experience to employers.
For an application form, it is designed to bring out the
essential information and personal qualities that the employer needs and does
not allow you to gloss over your weaker points as a CV does.
The information you should you put on
a CV.
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1 Previous related work experience 2 Qualifications & skills 3 Easy to read 4 Accomplishments 5 Spelling & grammar 6 Education (these were not just graduate recruiters or this score would be much higher!) 7 Intangibles: individuality/desire to succeed 8 Clear objective 9 Keywords added 10 Contact information 11 Personal experiences 12 Computer skills |
Personal details
In personal details you should put your name, address, date
of birth, cell or telephone number and email. You should always use one cell
number. Yes you can use two if there is any problem for using one number but
you should not use more than two contact number.
Actually, British style CVs doesn’t usually include a
photograph unless you are an actor. In Bangladesh along with some European
countries allows passport size photograph.
Education and qualifications
You need to put your degree subject and university or
college and result.
Work experience
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****You should use
action words such as developed, planned and organised.
*** Don't mention the
routine, non-people tasks (cleaning the tables) unless you are applying for a
casual job in a restaurant or similar.
Try to present related the skills to the job. A finance job will
involve numeracy, analytical and problem
solving skills so focus on these whereas for a marketing role you would place
a bit more emphasis on persuading and negotiating skills.
Interests and achievements
1.You should keep this section short and to the point. As you grow
older, your employment record will take
precedence and interests will typically diminish greatly in length and
importance.
2.Bullets can be used to separate interests into different types: sporting,
creative etc.
3. You should not put many passive, solitary hobbies (reading,
watching TV, stamp collecting) or you may be perceived as lacking people
skills. If you do put these, then say what you read or watch: "I
particularly enjoy Dickens, for the vivid insights you get into life in
Victorian times".
4. Show a range of interests to avoid coming across as narrow: if
everything centers on sport they may wonder if you could hold a conversation
with a client who wasn't interested in sport.
5. Hobbies that are a little out of the ordinary can help you to
stand out from the crowd: skydiving or mountaineering can show a sense of
wanting to stretch yourself and an ability to rely on yourself in demanding
situations.
6. Any interests relevant to the job are worth mentioning: current
affairs if you wish to be a journalist; a fantasy share portfolio such as
Bullbearings if you want to work in finance.
7. Any evidence of leadership is important to mention: captain or
coach of a sports team, course
representative, chair of a student society, scout leader: "As
captain of the school cricket team, I had to set a positive example, motivate
and coach players and think on my feet when making bowling and field position
changes, often in tense situations"
8. Anything showing evidence of employability skills such as team
working, organizing, planning, persuading, negotiating etc.
Skills
1. The usual ones to mention are languages (good conversational basic
English), computing (e.g. "good working knowledge of MS Access and Excel,
plus basic web page design skills"
2. If you are a mature candidate or have lots of relevant skills to
offer, a skills-based CV may work for you
References
1. You can use reference as per employer’s requirements. Normally
they want two references.
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The order and the emphasis will depend on what you are
applying for and what you have to offer. For example, the example media CV
lists the candidate's relevant work experience first.
If you are applying for more than one type of work, you
should have a different CV to each career area, highlighting different aspects
of your skills and experience.
A personal profile at the start of the CV can work for jobs
in competitive industries such as the media or advertising, to help you to
stand out from the crowd. If used, it needs to be original and well written.
Don’t just use the usual hackneyed expressions: “I am an excellent communicator
who works well in a team…… “
For what your CV can be rejected…
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• If your CV has
spelling mistakes or typos
• If your CV that
copied large amounts of wording from the job posting
• If your CV with an
inappropriate email address
• If your CV that
don’t include a list of skills
• If your CV that
are more than two pages long
• If your CV printed
on decorative paper
• If your CV that
detail more tasks than results for previous positions
• If your CV
that has large blocks of text with little white
space
• If your CV has
more than two contact number.
• If your CV has no
reference.
• If you put
irrelative information or skills
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