How to Writing your curriculum vitae
A beneficial beginning point for writing a curriculum vitae is to arrange a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) on your relevant acquirements and experiences. This will highlight your ‘selling points’ and describe any gaps.
Match the requirements
The key skill to a successful curriculum vitae is to make certain it is geared towards the position that you are applying for. Recruiters will judge your curriculum vitae on how well you match their ‘wish list’ of skills and experience. Consequently, it is important to study the advertisements and read between the lines of what is given to you. You should also make yourself familiar with any other recruitment literature available and the company website.
Broad requirements such as ‘excellent communication skills’ need to be broken down by thinking about how you will use them in the job.
Getting noticed
You had better select a layout for your curriculum vitae that will draw attention to your positive attributes. If you lack some type of work experience but have good skills from university activities, jobs and so on, then you should focus on a more skill based curriculum vitae rather than a chronological one. Your choice had better also depend on the employer and where your strengths lie, for instance, for a law firm you want a traditional curriculum vitae and for a marketing company, a more creative style curriculum vitae would be suitable.
Your curriculum vitae should commonly cover: personal details, educational activity, work experience, skills, interests and references. You can also use headings to draw the employers’ attention to your strongest selling points such as:
· Positions of Responsibility – highlights informal leadership positions as well as official roles.
· Additional work experience – can be used to identify casual work from professional and career related experience.
· Education and awards – use this to tell of any prizes won, scholarships and/or employer sponsorship.
· Additional skills – here you can bring together languages, IT, driving license and any other relevant qualifications.
In general a reverse chronological order for education and work experience is used and most space is devoted to what is most important. This generally means 1 or 2 lines maximum for General Certificate of Secondary Education* and including relevant details about your degree in.
Looking suitable
A curriculum vitae must look professional person and be easy to read. Employers scan through them quickly so having clear headers, well aligned tabs and a minimum size font of 10 will work to your profit. In addition, make sure you use good quality paper for hard copies. Use simple direct language and ‘action words’. Proof read you curriculum vitae and have someone check for writing and grammar.
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