First of all, I’d like to play down the importance of the CV. A company that respects itself and wants even a minimum of professionalism won’t hire someone based on the content of their CV. Doing that would be as misguided as judging a car’s price by the color of its rear wheels.
A CV should only serve to give references for the companies you’ve worked for, leave some contact details and give an idea of what you look like through a photograph. Nothing more.
Ideally, keep your CV to a single page, and be very explicit and specific about what the company is looking for.
Don’t bother listing your waiting jobs when you’re applying for an executive position. And believe me, no recruiter cares that at 17 you were the shooting champion at a Boy Scout camp or class representative in secondary school.
Leave as many ways to contact you as you can: phone, postal address, email and so on.
Avoid giving a company your email address in the following case. It may sound like a joke, but I’ve seen addresses like “sexygirl27”, “macho69” and a few others. That shows anything but seriousness.
Your CV will be your ticket to a job interview, and in the interview, whoever makes the best use of a few very basic techniques wins.
To download free CV templates and formats, follow this link: download CV templates.
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