Does your CV attract attention?
Jan 09, 2005
HAPPY New Year. After a long festive season, job hunting begins for all those above 18 years of age.
Life Skills - Andrew Kironde
HAPPY New Year. After a long festive season, job hunting begins for all those above 18 years of age.
With the current job scarcity it is survival for the fittest. In Uganda today, people of all age brackets study to better, not only their status, but to have heavy Curriculum Vitae (CVs).
Today’s article will embrace the entire team of job hunters as well as those already in the field and may want to change their jobs.
All jobs are equally important and beneficial in all spheres of life. Some times you may apply for a job, but get no reply for that all important job.
My question to you is, ‘Does your CV make an employer really want to invite you for that all-important job?’ Because if it doesn’t, your CV will just be thrown into the waste bin, hence no interview.
So here is a free CV advice guide, with tips for creating winning CVs. You can dramatically improve your CV writing skills.
Your CV is your sales pitch and you only have one chance to make a favourable impression.
A good Curriculum Vitae attracts an employer’s attention in the shortest amount of time and makes him or her really want to meet you. The average recruiter spends about 20-30 seconds glancing at a CV. Therefore, grab their attention very quickly.
Highlight what you have to offer at the start of your CV.
An attention grabbing summary list of major achievements at the start of the CV should help stir a recruiter’s interest in you and meeting you.
A Curriculum Vitae summaries should be short, sweet and precise; no more than four or five lines of text and should highlight your key skills and attributes.
This should paint a highly favourable picture of you and indicate your strength, which are relevant to the position you are applying for.
Your summary, however, must be completely honest, because if your description doesn’t live up to your performance at an interview, you will brand yourself a ‘liar’.
List three to six major achievements that are directly related to the job you are applying for. This shows you have understood what the recruiter is looking for.
If possible you should mention facts and figures, although you may feel that these are confidential and you may not want to disclose them. They do, however, make the CV more interesting and give a better idea of your capacities.
Work experience is important.
Describe your responsibilities, skills attained, and achievements in each position that you have had.
This should always be in reverse chronological order starting with your most recent position and working backwards.
You should concentrate on your two most recent jobs or leadership positions unless these are not relevant to the position you are applying for or you were only in these positions for a short time.
Mention budgetary responsibilities, numbers of staff or students managed (if applicable) and try to give a good picture where you fitted into the organisation or school and what interactions you had with other clubs, departments and companies.
Indicate the education qualifications. Obviously if your education is in the dim and distant past then you should not waste too much space on it because your work experience will be far more important. It goes without saying you must actually have all the qualifications you have claimed to have.
You should list your up-to-date Information Technology skills, training and other skills (such as language skills, vocational skills if relevant). Include stages of qualification.
You should include your personal details and hobbies.
Referees do not generally need to be included on a CV unless specifically asked for.
Limit your CV to two or three pages. If you are e-mailing your CV, send it in Microsoft word format .
In conclusion you will have to devote a fair amount of time to writing and producing an interview winning CV.
But, once it is finished you will have a CV that will really make an employer sit up and take notice of you and invite you to that all important.
I wish you success.
Kirondea2002@yahoo.com
HAPPY New Year. After a long festive season, job hunting begins for all those above 18 years of age.
With the current job scarcity it is survival for the fittest. In Uganda today, people of all age brackets study to better, not only their status, but to have heavy Curriculum Vitae (CVs).
Today’s article will embrace the entire team of job hunters as well as those already in the field and may want to change their jobs.
All jobs are equally important and beneficial in all spheres of life. Some times you may apply for a job, but get no reply for that all important job.
My question to you is, ‘Does your CV make an employer really want to invite you for that all-important job?’ Because if it doesn’t, your CV will just be thrown into the waste bin, hence no interview.
So here is a free CV advice guide, with tips for creating winning CVs. You can dramatically improve your CV writing skills.
Your CV is your sales pitch and you only have one chance to make a favourable impression.
Highlight what you have to offer at the start of your CV.
An attention grabbing summary list of major achievements at the start of the CV should help stir a recruiter’s interest in you and meeting you.
This should paint a highly favourable picture of you and indicate your strength, which are relevant to the position you are applying for.
Your summary, however, must be completely honest, because if your description doesn’t live up to your performance at an interview, you will brand yourself a ‘liar’.
If possible you should mention facts and figures, although you may feel that these are confidential and you may not want to disclose them. They do, however, make the CV more interesting and give a better idea of your capacities.
Work experience is important.
Describe your responsibilities, skills attained, and achievements in each position that you have had.
This should always be in reverse chronological order starting with your most recent position and working backwards.
You should concentrate on your two most recent jobs or leadership positions unless these are not relevant to the position you are applying for or you were only in these positions for a short time.
Mention budgetary responsibilities, numbers of staff or students managed (if applicable) and try to give a good picture where you fitted into the organisation or school and what interactions you had with other clubs, departments and companies.
You should list your up-to-date Information Technology skills, training and other skills (such as language skills, vocational skills if relevant). Include stages of qualification.
In conclusion you will have to devote a fair amount of time to writing and producing an interview winning CV.
But, once it is finished you will have a CV that will really make an employer sit up and take notice of you and invite you to that all important.
I wish you success.
Kirondea2002@yahoo.com