General tips on CV

Writing appropriate Cv it is one of the most important task in getting new job. For me (I believe like for most of the people) it is much easier to say 10000 words about my experience, talking through every detail, explaining benefits of hiring me, than to write a CV, where in 100 words you need to state in clear form why you is the best one to be hired. When I was composing my CV three people, who had a huge experience in composing CV and hiring people were helping me. I would love to share some of the tips I learned from them:

1) Try to keep short. My Cv is on 2 pages, but most important information (relevant work experience, key characteristics) I keep on one page mainly because not many people will go readying my CV till the end (too much effort). So try to put most important information about yourself and your past experience (the best if it is relevant to the job)at the first page.

2) Keep it relevant to the job you are looking for. It is very easy to find required skills and experience for the job by simply checking required skills and experience in job adverts. For example job says working with clients, you say – I have strong communicating skills. Job says ability to work under pressure – and you go very hard working and flexible person. Look at 2-3 job ads you are interested in and simply adjust your Cv to suits their looking for requirements.

3) Use adjectives while talking about yourself. You don’t want to lie about your past experience, but sometimes it is important to add some colour to your CV. Instead of saying – have a knowledge of working with PC you can say – have a strong knowledge working with PC, excellent communicational skills, (you don’t want to exaggerate saying the best, amazing...) but can go on with useful, effective, qualified, highly.... and on

4) Talk about achievements. I found it is very useful to stay in Cv not only responsibilities but also achievements. Here you want to talk using past tense, some of the major achievements, every one that you think may relate to you.

5) Keep it in nice way. It is highly important and I strongly recommend you to check front, spelling, spaces, and paragraph in your CV. You are creating piece of paper that will represent you, make sure it look nice and clean.

I will talk more about different ways how to write CV later on.