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A Curriculum Vitae Should Contain

The document provides guidance on creating an effective curriculum vitae (CV). It recommends including personal details like name, address, phone number and email at the top. It suggests keeping the personal details section brief. The next sections should include a career objective, education history with details of degrees and qualifications, work experience including both paid and unpaid positions, and references with contact information. There are two main CV styles - chronological, listing experience and activities in reverse date order, and functional, focusing on skills. The document concludes with tips on CV layout, such as using one to two pages, a consistent order and style, and an easy to read format and appearance.

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A Curriculum Vitae Should Contain

The document provides guidance on creating an effective curriculum vitae (CV). It recommends including personal details like name, address, phone number and email at the top. It suggests keeping the personal details section brief. The next sections should include a career objective, education history with details of degrees and qualifications, work experience including both paid and unpaid positions, and references with contact information. There are two main CV styles - chronological, listing experience and activities in reverse date order, and functional, focusing on skills. The document concludes with tips on CV layout, such as using one to two pages, a consistent order and style, and an easy to read format and appearance.

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A curriculum vitae should contain:

Personal details  Your full name,


 home address ( including postcode ),
 term address,
 telephone number ( home & work ) and e-mail (if possible),

are vital and should be prominent. After these, it really is up to you what you choose to divulge
and what is relevant for the type of work you seek:
 gender ( when your first name does not necessarily indicate gender )
 nationality
 date of birth
 marital status

As a general rule, keep this section to a minimum.


Career objective This is optional and short, but usually interesting and often helpful overall.
It should tell something of what it is you are aiming for at this stage and what skills you have to
offer in relation to your objective.
Education Clearly very important, especially to the new graduate/finalist and critical where the job applied for is
discipline-specific.
Profiling the course - its length and content - your performance within it comes into play -
grades, projects, your dissertation (stating a title in full, especially one relevant to the job being
applied for), professional or occupational qualifications. The year spent in Europe (name the
university) as a SOCRATES student as well as the skills acquired backed up by specific evidence.
It can be tempting to try to cover up a poor grade by not mentioning it at all but there may be
ways of limiting the damage on paper.
Do not include details of your primary school.
Work Experience / Include all relevant jobs whether casual, vacation work, voluntary or unpaid work.
Career History What matters only is that they demonstrate your suitability for the job and potential for success
in that career area - that the skills mix shown is one that matches that sought by the employer
for the job.
Referees Two is the usual number. Ideally one academic and one work referee. You may sometimes be asked
for three, in which case a personal referee is fine.
Ask your referees for permission to use their name. Ideally, give them a copy of your CV and
leave it with them. It will help them write relevant information.
Remember to give telephone number and e-mail of all referees, along with their job title and full
contact address
Names of referees may be omitted from CVs used for speculative applications when a statement
such as "references available on request" will suffice.
Do not include written references (testimonials) unless asked for them.

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There are two main styles - chronological and functional

Chronological

The commonest variety. States the facts about your education, experience and other activities in date
order, usually with the most recent information first (see presentation below). A basic CV for a casual
job may say little about your skills and qualities, but those intended to get you more demanding
employment will need to be more descriptive.

Functional

Selects the skills of particular value to the occupation sought and describes under each where you
have used and developed these competencies. Factual details about education, employment and
interests are kept to a minimum. More difficult to compose but can be very effective.

Presentation's style:
 Length The golden rule should be that layout and impact take priority. A well spaced and
attractively designed two page CV is better than one page of solid text. A short (one page) CV
may be fine for speculative enquiries, vacation work or temping. Two pages are likely to be
necessary in order to include all material relevant to a full job application. Only rarely should
a CV be three or more sides. An exception might be if you want to attach a list of publications
or the abstract of a research paper for a research or academic post. These could form an
appendix.

One page should normally cover your last ten years of experience. A maximum of two pages,
occasionally three is permissible if an employer has specially asked you for a detailed CV, or
you apply for a senior position and you have more than 10 years relevant experience.

 Order: The conventional order is: personal details; education; work experience; interests;
skills; referees. However, you are free to change this if your own life or the type of work fits
another order eg; a mature applicant might prefer work experience before education. You can
include other headings if you feel they are relevant eg achievements, career aim, positions of
responsibility. The choice is yours, but don't overdo it.
 Appearance: White, good quality A4 paper is usual but you might consider pale shades for
some types of employment.
A passport size photograph may be appropriate for some occupations.
Avoid acres of either black type or white spaces. Ask yourself if it looks good and is easy to
read. Some people like borders or lines between sections. Make your own decision.
 Consistency: Keep the same verb tense throughout. Don't mix too many grammatical styles.
Short sentences, phrases or bullet points are all OK. Aim to be clear and concise.
 Type style: Avoid changes of type faces. Use different sizes, capitals and/or bold type for
headings. Underlining is not fashionable.

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