Good and bad CV’s
Good and bad CV’s
In a good CV your name should stand out in big letters to make you get noticed and seem more confident. You should put your address neatly and your phone number and email address in, most people don’t put their email address down, however this is often the most convenient way an employer can contact you.
You should add a small personal statement, keep it short and hard-hitting whilst keeping it targeted to the skills that are required for the job in the description.
When adding your education and studies you should keep it well organised, this will suggest that you not only are you well organised but are good at computing too. You should add your education in order of most recent because this is what’s usually most important. Make sure that your CV is thoroughly checked for spelling errors this will show that you’re someone who pays attention to detail, takes pride in their work and has a professional attitude.
In a bad CV, first of all you shouldn’t put ‘curriculum vitae’ at the top of the page as this just takes up space. Also you shouldn’t put your address line after line as this also takes up space on the page. You should put in your personal statement that you’re specifically a good team worker as this will be a boring personal statement.
You shouldn’t put your education in order of first achieved as this isn’t the important. When talking about you’re degree you should particularly be talking about modules that relate to the job you are applying for. You should focus more on the qualifications that matter most.
If you put down what your interests are you should make sure that you put down something that suggests you’re a ‘people’ person i.e play a sport with friends and other people in a team.
Finally, you should use a formal font for this type of document as its meant to be a professional document and so the font ‘comic-sans’ isn’t going to be appropriate for example. Although ‘arial’ is.
In a good CV your name should stand out in big letters to make you get noticed and seem more confident. You should put your address neatly and your phone number and email address in, most people don’t put their email address down, however this is often the most convenient way an employer can contact you.
You should add a small personal statement, keep it short and hard-hitting whilst keeping it targeted to the skills that are required for the job in the description.
When adding your education and studies you should keep it well organised, this will suggest that you not only are you well organised but are good at computing too. You should add your education in order of most recent because this is what’s usually most important. Make sure that your CV is thoroughly checked for spelling errors this will show that you’re someone who pays attention to detail, takes pride in their work and has a professional attitude.
In a bad CV, first of all you shouldn’t put ‘curriculum vitae’ at the top of the page as this just takes up space. Also you shouldn’t put your address line after line as this also takes up space on the page. You should put in your personal statement that you’re specifically a good team worker as this will be a boring personal statement.
You shouldn’t put your education in order of first achieved as this isn’t the important. When talking about you’re degree you should particularly be talking about modules that relate to the job you are applying for. You should focus more on the qualifications that matter most.
If you put down what your interests are you should make sure that you put down something that suggests you’re a ‘people’ person i.e play a sport with friends and other people in a team.
Finally, you should use a formal font for this type of document as its meant to be a professional document and so the font ‘comic-sans’ isn’t going to be appropriate for example. Although ‘arial’ is.