STUDENT ADVICE# 2: FACTORS AFFECTING CREATION OF AN EFFECTIVE CURRICULUM VITAE

1. Choose a clear font such as Arial or Times New Roman, size 10 or 12. Bold your headings.
2. Ensure your name, address, telephone number and email contact details are at the top of your first page. Think carefully about how your email address, telephone answering message come across as these are a potential employer's first impression of you; they should be business-like.
3. Remember that your potential an employer may have received 40–200 applications for one vacancy so The interview panel will skim read and match the CV experience with the job specification, so tailoring your CV to the job is essential to ensure you get an interview.
4. Two pages as a basic CV with any extra adaptations if required. For example, if you have a lot of customer care experience that you would like to say more about have an extra page titled “Profile of customer care experience.”
5. Have a positive personal profile and key skills that represent you and your experience.
6. Career summary: begin with your most recent work experience first.
7. Avoid abbreviations and words that you wouldn’t normally use.
8. Bullet points are an effective way of highlighting your achievements in work, university or voluntary work. 
9. Shine a light on your positive qualities, positive people are much more attractive to employers.
10. Make sure you have ensured your dates flow, if you changed jobs and had an extended holiday,
11. make sure to write this down and what you gained from the experience, avoid gaps in dates.
12. Write references available on request rather than waste valuable space with names, addresses.
13. Beware your spell check as you may end up with the American spelling of words.
14. Get a friend, colleague to read through your completed CV.
15. Be proud of your CV as it represents all of your personal and professional accomplishments and be prepared to talk about yourself through your CV.