Job Hunting Tips Writing The Perfect CV Part 2
he first part of this
article focused on not 2) Personal Profile
making your CV too long,
making sure your CV is in the Your Personal Profile should be
right order and why you should no longer than five lines long,
personalise your CV for every job be written in the third person,
application. The second part will and give an accurate overview of
focus on the content for your CV your employment and educational
including Personal Details, experience as well as appearing
Personal Profile, Employment objective while subtly selling
Experience, Educational your relative attributes for a
Qualifications, Additional particular position.
Training and Personal Interests.
3) Employment Experience
1) Personal Details
As discussed in the first part of
Your CV should start off with this article, your employment
your name in big lettering, at experience should generally be
the top centre of the page. There featured before your educational
is no need to also include ‘CV’ background. Examples of when this
or ‘Curriculum Vitae’ as it is is not the case includes recent
obvious what the document is graduates in a relevant degree as
intended for. well as positions where a
specific degree or qualification
Your personal contact details is essential.
should be next, but not take up
too much room. If necessary, use When listing each place of
a smaller font and position them employment, the employer name,
towards the top corner of the month of employment starting and
page. finishing and a one or two line
overview of the employer should only be listed if you finished
be included. Following that, the school within the past five years
job title of the position should or a qualification is extremely
be highlighted above 5 bullet relevant for a job role. (Such as
points describing the role. typing speed when applying for a
secretarial position.)
Specific aspects of the role
should be highlighted in the 5) Additional Training
bullet points that are pertinent
to a specific new position. Each Any additional training
bullet point should be no longer qualifications should only be
than 2 lines in length. listed if they are pertinent to
the position applied for. If you
4) Educational Qualifications don’t have any additional
qualifications then don’t bother
Start with the most recent with the ‘Additional Training’
qualification. List the month and heading.
year that the qualification
started and finished, the 6) Personal Interests
establishment where the
qualification was undertaken, the The final section at the bottom
location of the place of study of the second page of your CV
and the qualification gained. should cover your personal
There is no need to list interests. In this section you
additional information such as have to tread the thin line
the modules studied within a between demonstrating that your
programme unless specifically personal interests influence you
asked to do so. positively by giving you a varied
perspective on life and seeming
High school qualifications should too unusual to fit in with the
existing personnel. is assumed that relevant
references will be made available
In addition, be careful not to should an offer of employment be
include information that is too made. In addition, assuming that
personal in this section. you have some good referees, you
Although you may be proud of your should consider this information
spouse and children, by including to be private as there is no need
their names you may diminish the to take the chance of a
perception of you as a prospective employer contacting
professional candidate. your referees without the
intention of making an offer of
There is no need to include the employment (which can be made
commonly featured ‘references’ subject to references anyway).
section at the bottom of a CV. It
About the Author:
David Bain is a consultant to http://www.UteachRecruitment.com - a specialist teaching jobs recruitment agency. U Teach Recruitment is based in Coatbridge, Scotland and brings schools and teachers together from all over the UK. Teaching opportunities include Art teaching jobs. Visit Uteach Recruitment to search for teaching jobs today.
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