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subject: Know Well How To Do A Cv Before Stepping In For Desired Job [print this page]


Today recruiters and employers both have become smarter than before. During past couple of years, recruiting policies have gone through a massive transformation and the transformation is still continue. As the businesses are getting the benefits of globalization to expand their activities and to secure their profits, a sudden rise in available job opportunities is being felt in every sector. Companies get bombarded with hundreds of CVs even for low paying job opening. It is important for the applicant to present his/her candidature in an impressive manner. For this, they must know well how to do a CV friendly particular vacancy.

Recruiters spend just 15-20 seconds to review a CV and to make their opinion. Therefore, it is must to make sure that education, experience, training and personal traits relevant to available job opening are properly highlighted in CV. Identification section makes sure that the employer may reach to the applicant. Job objective section is optional. It is used especially, if the applicant is a fresh college graduate or is seeking career change. Accomplishment section is dedicated to highlight the achievements. Education section informs the employer about the school(s) attended including the years of attendance, honors, minors/major degrees and received awards. All of these sections should be permanent part of sample CV, you have all the time as versatile CV.

Skill section of sample CV has the information about computer skills, foreign language and recently attended trainings, which are relevant to the defined role. Professional experience section of CV states the career-related job experience in chronological order. Using action verbs is a good practice in this section. Affiliations/Interests section is optional; the insertion of this section depends upon the professional gains of applicant. The details served in this section are used by the interviewers as the starting threads during the interview. Membership of relevant forums, institutions or communities and activities/interests of relevance are also detailed here.

Right selection of template and formatting of CV is as much important as is providing the information itself. Skills based, Chronological, Scientific / Technical, Creative, International, Electronic / Scannable etc are few options to select from. TIMES NEW ROMAN and GEORGIA both are standard windows "serif" font. ARIAL, standard windows "sans" font, is also used widely. Font size should not be less than 11 points. PDF format is the most widely used CV format nowadays. Web CVs created with HTML language are the first choice of advanced recruiters. There is no shortage of sources to get the information about how to do a CV otherwise you may outsource this service at very reasonable price.

by: Jonnie H. Allen




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