Full of bright ideas- Ensure your contact details are on the top of the first page
- Ensure your CV contains relevant key words for clients who search huge CV databases
- If your CV is long, highlight the skills most relevant to the job you are applying for, go into details on relevant experience and summarize everything else
- Be positive, aim to emphasise your strengths, experience and ability to adapt to challenging and changing environments in the most positive manner
- Assemble all the facts first and divide them into responsibilities and experience with achievements bulleted under main text
- Edit out the superfluous or negative points
- Make sure your CV is proof read and checked for spelling and grammatical errors. Ask a third party to comment on its overall appeal and message
- Use positive words to describe your personal attributes i.e. adaptable, accurate, hard working, reliable, confident etc
- Use positive words to describe your responsibilities and achievements i.e. achieved, implemented, completed, generated etc
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