A CV is meant to be a summary of your abilities, education, experience, and skills. Its main task is to convince prospective employers to contact you. A CV has one purpose: to get your foot in the door so you can wow potential employers at the job interview.
Employers or HR officers may look through a mountain of applications and usually spend only a few minutes reviewing your resume. So yours must create a good first impression. In order to grab the interest of a potential employer, and stand out from the rest of the applications, your CV must quickly convey that you are technically sound, capable and competent enough to be worth interviewing.
When preparing your CV, it is important to ask yourself, for a certain position, what aspects of your education, experience, or skills will be most attractive to that employer? Your CV should immediately highlight your relevant skills, knowledge and specific areas of specialty that you believe would be of interest to the employer or be required for the role.
A summary of your areas of experience and background is usually helpful to do this. Try to get your hands on a Job Description for the role and tailor your CV much as possible to the role you are applying for. Do not write a long essay but on the other hand, US-style CVs (that stick to only one page) are too short for our purposes!
Ideally, your CV should not be more than 3-4 pages long. Use of bullet points is best. Check that all roles and events are properly dated especially the dates you obtained your qualifications and those of your current and previous employment. Do not forget to include your place and date of admission. Any gaps (when you took that sabbatical to try your hand at something else?) in the dates should be adequately explained too!
More tips about creating a perfect CV can be read here.
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