Your CV (curriculum vitae) or Resume has just one purpose – to get you the interview!

The ideal CV is a written communication that clearly demonstrates your ability and experience in a specific field in such a way that the reader wants to meet you.  Your CV is a marketing tool, usually two pages long, designed to make a prospective employer want to meet you.  Your CV needs to highlight your strengths and accomplishments, matching your experience and abilities to the job requirements in a manner that sets you above other candidates.

The creation of a CV requires you to spend a sensible amount of time and effort in the collation of information, preparation, layout, proof-reading and analysis.  Generally, your CV has just 30 seconds (or less) to impress the professional recruiter before being discarded in the round filing cabinet on the floor!

Accept that your first effort will, almost certainly, require tuning, editing, modification, perhaps re-writing.  Prepare, print-off, examine, re-examine after a couple of days, have your friends and family examine.

Your CV performs two functions in your job search.  Firstly, it acts as a sales tool, illustrating why you should be considered for a position, in something less than thirty seconds!  Secondly, your CV will form the framework for any subsequent interview; employers often use your CV as a basis for their questions regarding your skill, experience and suitability for the position in question.  Put the most attractive, and relevant, information at the top of your CV

Your CV performs two functions in your job search.  Firstly, it acts as a sales tool, illustrating why you should be considered for a position, in something less than thirty seconds!  Secondly, your CV will form the framework for any subsequent interview; employers often use your CV as a basis for their questions regarding your skill, experience and suitability for the position in question.  Put the most attractive, and relevant, information at the top of your CV.

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