CV Tips

Writing CV can be very difficult sometimes epecially when you have nothing to write on it. If you are one of those then read the tips carefully and then start making resume.

Even you have a lot of things to put on your CV its still can be hard to order them right on a paper. employers are not one shaped people so each one of them has different attitude towrds reading CVs. Some likes long CVs some doesn’t, some worry about the shape some only care about the information on it so we will make a CV that all of the employers like! (if thats possible)

Lets start Learnist.org cv advices, after reading the CV tips you can discuss them at our CV forums and maybe get your cv review and support by other users for free.

1- Keep your CV succint so that employers can read it quickly and understand what it says.
2- Font should be Arial and 11-12 size is ok.
3- Re-check your spelling.
4- Make sure print was ok meaining printed whole CV not only header or bottom or etc.
5- Employment history and dates should be easily found.
6- Achievements menaitoned underlined with active verbs and positvely.
7- Give examples to your success stories
8- If your references are abroad then better to use email address for them
9- Don’t forget to include awards and any other positive documents that you have given in your previous employments.
10- Keeping the Cvs on one page only adviced however if this not possible for you then make it 2 at the most.
11- Every word in your CV should be marketing you not waste of space.
12- Ordering is important so important things comes first in your resume.
13- Covering letter is strongly adviced and shouldn’t be ignored.
14- Some useful words to use in the CVs are Determined, Implemented, Created, Devised, Coordinated, Conceived.
15- Include how many people you managed and what was the budget targets and how did you do it.
16- Different CV for different jobs are adviced, don’t just have static CV that you use for all employers.
17- Get your friends and family’s opinion about your CV
18- If you failed in interviews before consider revising your CV.
19- visit job site regularly!