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Podcast: How to organise the different sections on your CV
Career Advice Consultant Rowan Manahan reads CVs for a living. Here he discusses the different sections on a CV.
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Should you include a profile?
- It’s a great way to tell the reader a bit about you and how you’re qualified - make sure that it is impartial, verifiable and fact driven material.
- Concrete example of where you have made a difference with your responsibilities.
- A Profile is a useful opening part to a CV.
Education in a CV- how far should the candidate go back?
- Reverse chronological order.
- Include training and accreditations that you have received, format in a way that is easy to read - Use what is relevant.
- You don’t need to get into massive detail.
Date of Birth - should it be included?
- You are not required to include it.
- If it’s to your advantage, then put it in under Personal and Contact details.
What order should the sections go in?
- Depends on the position and your experience, put what is most interesting and important first, like a newspaper or website.
- If you’re just out of formal education, interviewer is going to be most interested in wheter or not you do have some working experience.
- You don’t need to put the words Curriculum Vitae on top.
- Initials after your name aren’t necessary.
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