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Your Curriculum Vitae (CV) is the document you use to sell
yourself to potential employers. It should reflect your skills and
experience in the best light, whilst remaining accurate and truthful.
SCI’s "CV Manager"
The online "CV Manager" provided on this website allows you to construct a quality CV in a selection of professional styles and formats. You can download and print out copies at home for you to use in other job applications. We recommend you print on to white A4 paper. There is no charge for this service
Length
When looking for new staff, employers may be inundated
with CVs, and hence have very limited time to look at each one. They
may only have 30-60 seconds to look at each CV and take in the relevant
points.
Keep it Concise
Therefore your CV should be concise, but must not underplay
your skills and experience. Try to keep all relevant information within
2 sides of A4.
- Be brief and factual about skills and experience gained,
and about duties and responsibilities held in any job
- Key skills and
achievements should be highlighted.
- Keep paragraphs of prose, and discussions of feelings and working
relationships with others to a minimum.
Layout
Your name, contact details and brief personal information should be at the top of the CV. This sets the scene for potential employers.
The generally preferred style for CVs is that Employment History and Education/Qualifications should be presented in reverse chronological order. This is how SCI’s "CV Manager" presents the information. In this way potential employers can easily see the most recent skills and experience gained.
Education and Academic qualifications are kept together in SCI’s "CV Manager". It is useful for potential employers to know which qualifications were gained at what School, College or University.
If potential employers are looking for job applicants with work experience, they will be most interested in the Employment History section of your CV. If this is the case it should come before the Education & Qualifications section.
Employers more interested in fresh graduates or academic experience & qualifications will want to see the Education & Qualifications section before Employment History. SCI’s ‘CV Manager’ gives you the option of either layout.
Make sure there are no time gaps in your employment or
education history. Periods of unemployment or travel are acceptable
and understandable in the modern world. These should be included.
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