Creating the perfect CV isn’t easy. In a competitive job market, you only have a couple of sides of paper with which to get noticed, and on which to outline your skills, qualifications and experience. A potential employer may spend less than a minute scanning your document.
For an eye-catching, good CV, layout is almost as important as content, and few things look as bad as a poorly-presented resume. Remember your CV is your shop window, your personal brochure and your chance to show off!
Your CV needs to be up-to-date, accurate and error-free, while highlighting what makes you stand out. Since it’s always hard to spot your own mistakes, get someone else to give you a hand with proof-reading your resume. While it may sound obvious, as well as checking your spelling and grammar, make sure your employment dates tally and that you’ve included the correct phone number and email address on the document. Finally, a good CV is very tightly tailored to each individual application, so that it is slightly different each time you send it off.
One way of making life easier is to use the many free CV templates you can find online, which indicate which information should go where, and takes care of all the layout for you.
One company that can help with its very high standard of CV templates is Innovate CV. Get advice with the wording of your resume, and integrate your current Word document into an Innovate CV in a trice! Just enter your details once to create a “Master CV”, from which you can easily make unique versions when applying for different vacancies. Each Innovate CV created has a unique URL, and can be sent to the appropriate consultant directly from the Innovate CV system. Read more online.
