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The purpose of a CV is to provide an up to date summary of your work experience. It
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should enable a prospective employer or recruitment consultant to see quickly whether
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you have the skills or characteristics that he is looking for so that he can invite you to
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attend an interview.
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Everybody has different ideas about what constitutes the perfect CV format but here
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are the main pointers that most recruiters agree with.
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1.
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Keep it short. The main body of the CV should be no more than 3 pages. More
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than this will probably not be read. But make sure it contains sufficient detail for the
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reader to understand clearly what it is you have been doing.
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2.
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Start with your personal details including contact details (address and telephone
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number) age or date of birth, and marital status (e.g. married, 2 children aged 5 and 7).
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Details about your education should be limited to the most advanced qualifications
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obtained. e.g. your degree or number of A levels/ GCSEs etc. You will not need to list
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the schools you attended or each individual GCSE with its grade.
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3.
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Details about your family, pets, pastimes should appear at the end of the CV.
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These are generally used as discussion points in an interview.
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4.
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You may like to summarise the sort of work animal you are at the top of the CV as
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in "A Multi-media design artist with particular expertise in Photoshop and Web
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Authoring" but do not make this more than 3 lines and avoid telling everyone how
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wonderful you are: it is the recruiter's job to assess your ability, not yours.
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5.
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Detail your work experience in "reverse chronological order". This means putting
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your most recent experience first. We are interested mainly in what you can do for an
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employer now, not what you were doing 10 years ago. You should reduce the amount
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of detail you provide about previous jobs as you work back through your employment
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history time.
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6.
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For each position provide (in bold ) a job title, the name of the employer, and the
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dates you were (are) employed there. You should then provide details of the daily tasks
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you performed, and any major successes or achievements which you want to draw to
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the reader's attention. This is often best done using a succession of bullet points.
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7.
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Avoid making your CV too complicated in layout and design. Many agencies and
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employers feed CV information into a database using scanners and Optical Character
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Recognition programs which may fail to interpret complicated formatting and small
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fonts.
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8.
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Do not put everything in capitals. It is difficult to read and can be very annoying.
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Always use mixed case headings and text.
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9.
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When sending a CV, include a covering note which explains the geographical
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areas you are prepared to work in , the distance you can commute, details of your
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present salary and the sort of work you are looking for. If you are looking for a
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particular type of work then you should also explain what this is. You should also
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include a day-time 'phone number where you can be contacted if possible. Recruitment
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consultants are trained to contact candidates with a maximum of discretion.
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10.
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It is a good idea to attach a "skills summary" to the end of your CV or else
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include a section on the first page (as long as this is not too long). This should detail
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any technical accreditations you have obtained, key technology strengths, and the
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various packages and hardware you are familiar with. Do not waste your time (and
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ours) by including the names of packages you know nothing about. Show the degree of
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proficiency you have acquired or the amount of experience you have of each item.
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You may like to download an example of a CV (Word file - 4k).
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The CV is an example of our preferred layout. It contains "dummy" data which
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you should over-type.