A03 CV Development (10%)

Individual Task | Due: Week 6 – Friday, 22 Mar 2024, 23:55/11:55pm

Overview and motivation

Preparing a strong Curriculum Vitae (CV) or Resume showcasing research and technical skills is a
core competency required to enter and advance in the academic and industrial workforce in an
engineering and/or research role. A CV is often the first impression that an employer receives from
a candidate when being considered for a position. A poorly assembled CV may eliminate
candidates from consideration in initial job selection processes. Producing an effective CV and
presenting research skills can be challenging, particularly for graduates entering the workforce in
their early career phase. This assessment task is designed to help students consolidate their
research and technical experience into a document that effectively communicates their capabilities
and skills to a future employer; thereby enhancing their career-readiness and future employability.

Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this task, you will have:

 identified the elements required for an effective engineering and/or research CV and
implemented all elements for the CV tailored towards an industry or academic role;
 analysed an active job listing to extract key details communicating the needs of the employer;
 presented your research and technical skills, professional experience and achievements
effectively and succinctly for the targeted job listing;
 enhanced your understanding of future engineering/research career prospects in industry and
academia that align with your skills and experience.

Format
As an individual, select an online job advertisement for an engineering and/or research industry
or academic role relevant to your skills and career goals. Complete the ‘A03 CV Development -
Job Listing Attachment’ document available on Moodle to summarise the details of the job
advertisement. This document is designed to help you identify and analyse the key aspects of the
advertised position and is also used to assess the suitability of your CV for the job listing.
Develop a CV to apply for the position. The CV must include:

 A heading (including your name and current position)

 Contact details (email address, phone number and address)
 Summary statement (highlighting your top skills/experiences relevant to the role)
 Education history
 Experience (detailed summary of industry/research/work experience)
 Achievements/Awards

Your CV may also include (but is not limited to):

 Technical Skills
 Extra-curricular Activities
 Publications
 Professional Memberships
 Referees

Note: For this assessment, the terms ‘Curriculum Vitae’ and ‘Resume’ are used synonymously and are
referred to as ‘CV’. You may choose to develop either an extended or concise version of your ‘CV’
depending on whether it is appropriate for your targeted job listing.

Advice
There are many resources available online to help you develop your CV, including example CVs
and academic profiles available on the Moodle course page, and info sheets provided by
Engineers Australia. Some helpful advice on the key sections of your CV is provided below.

Summary Statement

The summary statement is designed to provide the employer with a brief outline of your key
strengths and experiences and helps you stand out from the other applicants. This section should
only be a few sentences long and should highlight the main elements of your CV, much like an
executive summary. Mention your most relevant experiences, impressive qualifications, career
highlights, achievements, technical specialties etc. Summary statements are often followed by a
list of key skills linked to your experiences that you want to showcase to the employer. This may
include leadership, time management, project management skills, etc.
Experience

This section of your CV highlights the outcomes and skills obtained from your previous
engineering or research roles and experiences. Often this can be a dealbreaker for employers
comparing multiple candidates that have met the fundamental requirements for the role.

The style of writing in this section of your CV is important. This should not be a general recount of
your activities, but rather a strategic and carefully worded summary of the technical role that
showcases your capabilities for the job. A useful technique to ensure this section is impactful is to
use action statements. These statements include action verbs to describe your role in an activity
and include the outcome or purpose of that activity. Be specific and quantify where possible.

For example: Programmed and installed a data acquisition unit to enable automatic data collection
during plant operation, thereby reducing the extrusion time by 10 %.

Learn more about the use of action statements here.

Presentation and Layout

Employers look over CVs quickly and capture key details to assess your suitability for the role and
compare you to other candidates. It is thus important that your CV looks professional and is easy
to follow. Some useful tips are provided below.

 Ensure that the elements of your CV are clearly distinguished and have headings.
 Format each section of the CV consistently e.g., if you used bold size 12 for a heading then
ensure all headings are the same style.
 Use an appropriate font e.g., Arial, Times New Roman, Cambria and Calibri.
 Proof-read your CV to ensure there are no spelling or grammatical mistakes.

Submission
Submit by the due date and time a PDF copy of your CV with job listing attachment appended to
CV (as a single PDF file) through the submission tool on Moodle (this will be made available
closer to the due date). Note that computer-based submission offers no discretion, even one
second. If you feel you will be making a late submission, you need to notify the Course
Coordinator. You will need to provide a valid reason for lateness or you will incur penalties
(20% per day or part thereof) for late submission.
Assessment Criteria
The following marking rubric has been compiled based on several published rubrics
to assess CVs and aligns with the guidelines provided by UNSW Careers and
Employment. The CV is not assessed on the level of professional experience held by
the student, but by the format and content of the CV assessed using the rubric below.

Criteria Partly
Incompetent Competent Mastery
Competent
(<40%) (60% to 80%) (80% to 100%)
(40% to 60%)
Heading, No heading or 3-4 elements of 1 or 2 elements Heading stands out
Contact contact details the heading are of the heading through use of font,
Details (5 provided. missing. are missing. style and/or
marks) separator and
contains full name.
Address including
city and post code,
contact number, and
professional email
address is provided.
Summary No summary Summary Good summary Impactful summary
Statement (15 statement statement is statement that statement that
marks) provided, or included; highlights key introduces the
statement offers however, the skills and candidate and
no valuable statement lacks experience of the highlights experience
information about impact and does candidate. relevant to the
the candidate. not effectively advertised role.
summarise key Includes key skills
strengths and relevant to the role.
experience.
Education (5 No education 2 of the elements 1 of the elements Includes tertiary
marks) history provided, described for the described for the education and other
or 3 or more of top band is top band is relevant educational
the elements missing. missing. qualifications. The
described for the official name of the
top band is degree including
missing major, the name of
the institution and its
location and date
completed/expected
 to be completed. If
grades are
mentioned, GPA is
above 3.0/ WAM
above 65.
Experience Experience listing At least one At least one Includes at least two
(30 marks) is missing, or experience listing experience listing previous experience
listing does not is provided, is provided. descriptions with key
provide any however, the role Candidate roles listed in bullet
useful details on description is attempts to use points. Roles are
the candidate’s mostly superficial action statements described using
professional and the specific to describe key action statements
experience. contribution of the roles, however, that specifically
candidate in the role descriptions identifies the
role is unclear. are not specific or contribution of the
Action statements do not clearly candidate, and the
are not used convey purpose and/or
consistently. The candidate’s outcome of the
listing is missing contribution and contribution.
one or more of skills. The listing Contribution is
the following identifies all of quantified where
details: name of the following appropriate. Roles
organisation, details: name of are organised by
location, position organisation, relevance with the
title, date. Verb location, position most relevant
tenses are title, date. Verb mentioned first.
inconsistent. tenses are
consistent. The experience
listings identify the
name of organisation,
location, position title
and date. Verb tense
is consistent and
appropriate.
Presentation, More than 5 of 3 or 4 of the 1 or 2 of the Two-page limit is
Organisation the elements elements elements followed if the
and Layout required for the described for the described for the document is
(20 marks) top band are top band are top band are presented as a
missing/partially missing/partially missing/partially concise resume.
completed. completed. completed. Pages do not have
large unused space,
nor are they
overcrowded. Page
 margins are
balanced.
Appropriate font and
font size is used. All
writing styles (i.e.,
italics, bold,
underline, etc) are
used consistently
across the document.
No unnecessary or
unprofessional
graphics are used. All
elements of the
document are clearly
distinguished, easy to
follow and in the
appropriate order.
Reverse
chronological order
by date is used when
listing. Key words
and ideas are
highlighted using font
styles and bullet
points to draw
attention to
candidate’s
strengths. Overall
document is visually
appealing.
Spelling and 5 or more spelling 3 or 4 spelling or 1 or 2 spelling or Free of spelling and
Grammar (10 or grammatical grammatical grammatical grammatical
marks) mistakes and/or mistakes. mistakes and mistakes. Personal
some of the personal pronouns are not
content is pronouns are not used. Abbreviations
confusing or used. are not used unless
abbreviations are necessary and
used appropriately
unnecessarily or communicated.
there are errors
on the page.
Suitability to No job listing Job listing is Job listing is Job listing is attached
job listing (15 attached, or CV is attached but CV attached and and completed
 marks) not appropriate is mostly generic. completed. There thoroughly. It is
for job listing; it The basic is evidence that evident from the
does not reflect education and/or the CV has been profile summary that
any of the skills experience tailored to the job the CV is targeted to
or experiences and/or skills listing in the the job listing. The
required for the requirements for summary CV addresses all key
role. the position are statement. The requirements needed
met. requirements of for the role. The CV
the role are met presents a strong
in the education, case for the
previous candidate’s suitability
experience and for the advertised
skills description. position.

A03 CV Development - Job Listing Attachment

Job Advertisement Summary

This document summarises the details of the job advertisement you have selected
for your CV Development assessment task. Note: your selected job advertisement
must be for an engineering and/or research position. This should help you
develop a clear understanding of what the role involves and what it requires so that
you can effectively communicate your suitability. It will also be used to assess how
well your CV meets the requirements of the chosen job listing.

Please fill this document and submit it as an attachment along with your CV using
the submission tool on Moodle.

1. Source
https://www.seek.com.au/job/74538478?ref=search-
standalone&type=standout#sol=4047add5a5cb4b1b14f5a3f2a54cf0741decb204
2. Job Title
Data Analyst / Machine Learning Engineer
3. Role Description
(List, in bullet points, the roles and responsibilities of the position described in the job
listing; e.g., the projects you will be working on, who will you be working with/reporting to)

(Optional: Highlight the key words)

 Visualising and exploring data sets in Grafana

 Developing, applying, and optimising quantitative models
 Creating simulations, reports and analysis on potential optimisation of energy
usage
 Pioneering new optimisation strategies and rolling them out to test in the field
 Deploying models and strategies to our production AWS environment, ensuring
reliability and performance.
 Supporting the management of our fleet of installed batteries

4. Requirements for the position

(List, in bullet points, the qualifications/experience/skills required or preferred for the role;
e.g., tertiary education, technical skills, personal traits, etc.)

(Optional: Highlight the key words)