CURRICULUM VITAE

Start your CV preparation by gathering together the essential itams of information that must
be incleded on all CV.

Full name:if you have unusual name consider making it clear whether you are a man
or a women. You can give this information in two ways, either by adding your titile in
the brackets after your name or by adding new line called Sex.

Contact detalis: should include your full postal adress, telephone number, emali and
mobile phone number.

Educational and prefessional qualifications: you can list either in the order you took
them or with the most recent or the highest qualification first. The first option is used
if the job you are applying gives no particular description of qualifications and second
option if a qualification is required or will give you extra punch.

Career history:you need to include your job title, the company name and adress, the
start and end date of working for the company, a list of your responsibilities and
achivements, and why the job ended

Interests: recruitment managers like to read a CV which shows person who has a life
beyond work

Formatting your CV

Make your Cv follow a logical sequence so that the reader of it does not have to work
out the chronology of your career

Use a style that is attractive to the eye and does not bury the essential details in a mass
of different fonts styles and sizes

Style A

Personal details ( name, contact details)

Education (school, collages, university attended)

Educational and professional qualifications (exames achived)

Current studies

Extra and unqualified skills (languages, IT skills, training courses attended, staff
involvement, first aid training)

Career history; starting with your most recent job and working backwards to the first
job you have had

Part time posts; again starting with most recent and working backwards

Interests

Referees

This style is best suitable for anyone starting a career or below management level. For a
`starter` role or for role which seek someone who has the potential to develop new skills
up to management level , achivements in education and in picking up extra and
unqualified skills are good guide for recruitment managers.
Style B

Personal details

Personal profile

Career history

Part time posts

Educational and professional qualifications

Current studies

Extra and unqualified skills

Publications

Interests

Referees

This style is appropriate for more experienced candidates or managerial CVs. Its sequence
may not seem as logical as style A as the educational qualifications (usually gained earlier
in time than the career history) are after the career history. However, at this level
recruitment managers are more interested in the work experience and skills of a candidate.