How to Structure a CV?

Your CV (Curriculum Vitae) is a necessary step as it leaves your 1^st impression over the employer and constructs the roads for interview. In the tough marketing competition if a company advertises a job you can usually guarantee that they are going to receive hundreds of applications and CVs which they have to sort through. You can also assume that the manager or other persons dealing with recruitment are very busy and therefore not have time to read each CV in detail. It's therefore essential that your must be professional as your CV makes a big impression quickly, without needing to be read in full.

Here's is a guide to how to structure your CV should be. The following format works well as it is clear to the reader and who you are and what you are looking for

Always start with the basics. Your personal details and contact information.

Personal Details

• Name
• Address
• Mobile Phone Number
• E-mail Address
• Date of Birth

Personal profile

In the next step write your personal profile. This is a paragraph about you and what you're looking for. But remember these points. This should be concise but must be to the point.

• Include your basic skills these will work for you as selling points.  
• Clarify in form of short summary that what you are looking for and how can be the best candidate.
• Remember to include your personality when writing it help to make a good first impression and give an insight to you.
• Add all your qualification, your references and work experiences according to the job.
• It is your chance to sell yourself within the first 10 seconds of someone reading it

Education

The education section should include

• Names of institutions
• Attended Dates
• Subjects with specialization (if any)
• Grades

Work History & Work Experience

Remember these points in this phase

• Start with your most recent positions
• Point out your key responsibilities
• Include your past achievements and include dates
• Your recent job role should have the most information previous jobs will not need less but still include basic information and your main responsibilities.

Other information

• Understanding the PC levels
• Language(s) spoken and scripts to written(if any specialization you have)
• Training courses attended

References

Gives names, and position as refernces if possible.

If not then mention that references are available upon demand.

Do not

Include salary. If you do this it leaves a bad impression of you. Use plain white paper with black font color and try to avoid the used of fancy fonts or paper, it may confuses the reader and can have a bad impression of you if not presented correctly. Make sure that there are no spelling or grammatical errors. Your CV does not need to be limited to one page, but try to make as concise but detailed as you can do. The most important thing is that you have included your skills and abilities and have presented them clearly.