Five Key Sections of a Good CV
2 January 2012
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2. Your 'Service Offer'
Indication of your profession or what you offer.
3. Your Experience
Three possible presentation types:
- Chronological (emphasis on career progression)
- Reverse Chronological (focus on most recent positions)
- Functional (summary of experience).
Useful Tips:
- Be factual using action words and numbers!
- Sell yourself by highlighting your achievements (in your positions)
- Avoid showing periods of inactivity too much.
Always indicate your highest diploma obtained, most relevant internships, your comprehension level of a language... Don't lie about any of these points!
3. Your Personal Activities and Other Information
This section allows you to specify certain things if it is appropriate to do so, such as:
- Military status
- Family status
- Extra-professional activities in which you have had responsibilities or which have allowed you, for example, to improve the practice of a foreign language.
Other remarks...
As an outplacement professional reminds us:
- Your CV is a major document: it is you! You therefore have a duty to take care in preparing it and to think carefully before considering it 'finished'.
- Your CV must be perfect when used: never use the same one twice, do not store it in a pocket of your jacket, check that it has no stains or suspicious marks!
- Your CV, in its presentation, must not lead to arbitrary classification, particularly by psychologists. Make it a rule never to frame text, grey out a title, underline or strike through the page with lines to delimit paragraphs.
- Your CV is a way to format an oral presentation argument of your career adapted to a search via a network of contacts. If you have trouble reading it aloud, change the words; its reading should not take more than two minutes, otherwise reduce it.
Guides to consult
- The CV and job search guide from First Editions, to which are now added the guides from the new Job en Poche collection, including an explicit title - CVs that work. In the same spirit, we can mention Recruitment Interviews that work.
- The Baden CV guide from Editions du Rocher.
- The guides from L'Etudiant Premier Emploi.
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Posted on January 2, 2012.
