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CV Tips

• Ensure your resume is well laid out and has a feeling of consistency so that it is immediately easy to read and understand.
• Use concise, to the point, unambiguous sentences.
• Never make false claims, honesty is always the best approach.
• Utilize bullet points to highlight relevant skills and experience.
• The ideal length for a resume, dependent on experience of course is between 2 and 4 pages long.
• Emphasize your  accomplishments and the skills that you use to get the results you achieve.
• If you are making a career change, it would be useful to highlight your transferable skills.
• Put your highest level of education first.
• Put your most recent job first and work backward chronologically in time.
• Ensure all dates are accurate.
• Explain any long career gaps (i.e. travelling, maternity leave etc.) these will only need to be explained to our clients.
• Make use of correct English grammar.
• Describe what you did 90% of the time, not 10% of the time.
• Avoid references to hobbies, activities and memberships which are not business related or have no relevance to your current career goals or job objectives.
• If you are preparing a CV for a specific vacancy, explain why you would be good at the position for which you are applying. This is a brief summary of your significant technical and managerial skills (where appropriate). Include accomplishments and soft skills such as team player, dependable and successfully meeting deadlines. i.e. - Yearly target achieved with 110% in Q3.