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What is a CV?
When should you use a CV?
How long should a CV be?
What information should a CV include?
What makes a good CV?
WHAT IS A CV? WHEN DO YOU USE IT? HOW
LONG SHOULD IT BE?
What is a CV?
A Curriculum Vitae is a short description of the persons educational
and professional history.
When do you use it?
When you are applying for a job
At interviews to read while waiting to be called
For phone applications
How long should a CV be?
Short, not longer than two pages
WHAT INFORMATION SHOULD A CV
INCLUDE?
Personal Information
Work experiences
Education
Skills and Interests
WHAT INFORMATION SHOULD A CV
INCLUDE?
Personal information
Name and Surname
Date of Birth
Address
Email-address
Telephone number
Picture (if required)
WHAT INFORMATION SHOULD A CV
INCLUDE?
Work experience
Starting with the most recent
If you don’t have any work experience yet, start with
education and list part-time or summer jobs or voluntary
work
If you have a lot, choose the ones relating the most to the job
you are applying
Give address of previous company and the time you spent
there and your tasks in the company
WHAT INFORMATION SHOULD A CV
INCLUDE?
Education
Starting with the most recent
Concentrate on the important
Including the degree, university or school and
grades
THE ISCED (INTERNATIONAL STANDARD
CLASSIFICATION OF EDUCATION)
0 Early childhood education
1 Primary
2 Lower secondary
3 Upper secondary
4 Post-secondary non tertiary
5 Short-cycle tertiary
6 bachelor or equivalent
7 Master or equivalent
8 Doctoral or equivalent
WHAT INFORMATION SHOULD A CV
INCLUDE?
Skills and Interests:
Language Skills
Computer Skills
Social Skills
Technical Skills
Organizational Skills
Artistic Skills
Other Skills
chose interests relating to your job
not only passive hobbies
not only one range of hobbies
maybe a hobby that makes you different from the
rest
specify
HOW TO WRITE A GOOD CV
Short
easy to read
logical ordered
writing not to small or to big
avoid writing whole sentences and if just short sentences
no spelling or grammar mistakes
should suit the post you are applying for
Employers take less than a Minute for each CV so you need
to make an impact.
HOW TO WRITE A GOOD CV