Your - Your CV Ucg 2019
Your - Your CV Ucg 2019
Your - Your CV Ucg 2019
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CV Sections • Feature skills that are most relevant • Giving details will impress more than a
to the job you are applying for. You can vague statement, for example,
Personal details split this into two sections: ‘Relevant ‘Compete in regular half marathons,
• Name, address, telephone number, work experience’, outlining directly raising £1000 for Cancer Research
email address. related experience, and ‘Other last year ’ says more about you than
• You don’t need to include your date of experience’, listing everything else. simply ‘Running’.
birth, marital status or sex. Change the titles of these headings to
References
• Use a professional sounding email, reflect what’s most important for the
such as your full name, rather than a role, for example ‘Research experience’ • If you do give references, then a good
nickname. If necessary, set up a new or ‘Communications experience’. policy is to include one employer and
account. one academic referee for jobs and two
Skills academic referees for courses. You
Education
• IT, languages (including the level of can simply state ‘References available
• University education – include any competency) and any technical skills on request’.
relevant modules or a dissertation – for example, lab techniques.
title. Length
• A levels. Positions of responsibility • Most employers will expect the
• Number of GCSEs (or equivalent). • This is optional: include it if you have standard UK CV length of two pages.
Work experience
any relevant responsibilities. • Academic CVs are often longer as you
are required to include conferences,
Interests
•Include both paid and voluntary work publications, etc.
and any part-time or on-campus work • List the skills acquired from leisure
• CVs for banking jobs or management
you’ve done. activities, club/society memberships, consultancy should be no more than
travel. one page.
The profile debate 2 Present your information, such as 6 If you are sending out your CV
date layout, in a consistent way. speculatively, send it directly to
You don’t have to have a ‘profile’ or the manager of the department
‘career objective’ at the top of your 3 Remember to use reverse you are interested in and not HR.
CV. It’s really a matter of personal chronological order in your If you know someone in the
preference. If you do decide to education and experience sections. organisation find out if they will
include one, make it specific and pass your CV to the relevant
ensure any statements regarding 4 Check for spelling and grammar
person.
your skills are complemented by errors. Don’t rely on a computer
concrete examples. spellchecker!