These are the general points to keep in mind while building your CV:
- Include your name, address, phone number, email address, and any relevant professional experience and expertise.
- To save potential employers’ time, your contact information should be prominently displayed on your CV.
- Examine the job description for keywords and specifications to help you customise your resume for each application.
- Since hiring managers only have a few seconds to check each application, make sure your CV is neat, professional, and simple to read.
- Include relevant technical or hard skills and soft abilities in your skills area. You can also list any qualifications you’ve earned or tools you’ve mastered.
- A list of any further noteworthy achievements or volunteer activities should be included as the final section you think about including on your resume.
- Only mention those information that are pertinent or that may help paint a clearer image of your character in relation to the job for which you are seeking.
- If you speak more than one language fluently, you may wish to include this in a section after your skills.
- More and more employers are eager to learn about their prospects on a personal level. Even if you don’t have to give a detailed list of your interests, you may include two or three hobbies that best reflect your personality.
- Use data whenever possible, quantify results and achievements. Show how much, how many, percentage increase or reduction, etc.
- Use relevant keywords, arrange your content correctly, and use as few fancy visuals, fonts, and elements as possible.
- Don’t make a broad statement without supporting it with specific examples. Instead of simply stating that you are a team player, give examples of your work that demonstrate this ability.
- Follow the STAR- Situation, Task, Action, Result- approach while mentioning any achievement or accomplishment in your internships, work experiences or PoRs.
- Don’t use generic lines to mention any achievement be specific yet crisp and to the point.
- Add only the relevant points for any employer, and avoid adding any irrelevant achievements or anything that is too old.
- Make sure your CV should have a chronology or reverse chronology in consistency with each head, don’t switch the pattern within heads.
- Avoid using unprofessional fonts, use – Calibri, Times New Roman or Arial.
- Do not use bright colours in CV, use light and professional colours: Blue, Grey etc.
- Highlight the keywords and data that can potentially impact your candidature among all by making it bold or italics so that the employer can spot it easily.
- Try to avoid repeating the action verbs that are used. Use a different word for each line.
- To make your CV stand out, use specific key words and mention them separately in a top row.
