Thursday, August 23, 2012

Curriculum Vitae

23.08.2012

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae is a main marketing tool to market ourselves. You should try to inform who are you to the organization. Curriculum Vitae is a first step towards to your dream job.

Important Things in Creating Curriculum Vitae.

  1. Don't send one generic curriculum vitae and send it to all the organizations. When you are applying for different different job positions you need to change the curriculum vitae according to that positions.
                ex: Quality Assurance.
                      Human Resources.
                      Software Development.

     2.   Identify the objectives of the curriculum vitae.
- It's a selling document.
- Curriculum Vitae will not get you the job.

    3.   'Sell your self and get a interview.'
- It's a influence to job.

     4.   It should highlight your skills.
       ex: Cognitive skills.
            Morton skills.
            Effective skills - Time management and Negotiation.

    5.   When you go to a industry you can say you have these these skills and experiences and achievements.

    6.   Need to be explain where you are, where you would want to be.

Marketing or Advertising the Product is YOU...

  1. Curriculum Vitae must sell you to a prospective employer.
    2.   Curriculum Vitae be presented in professionally.
- Need to write to the point.
- Need to express that you are the ideal one to job.

    3.   Attributes found to be professional.
- The right skills.
- Attire.
- Positive thinking and attitude.
- Good behavior.
- Good experience.
- Qualifications.
- Loyalty.
- Punctuality.
- Good communication skills.
- Good education.
- Time management.
- Good coordinating skills.
- Transparency.
- Responsibility.
- Flexibility.
- Patience.
- Honesty.
- Responsiveness.
- Attention to detail.
- Being formal.
- Self motivated.
- Good orientation.
- Non-Judgmental.
- Enthusiastic.
- Methodical.
- Trys to do more with less.
- Learns from mistakes.
- Broad minded.
- Willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done.
- Trustworthy.
- Works under pressure.
- Has presentation skills.
- Good leadership qualities.
- Good ethics.
- Organized.
- Team player.
- Risk taking.
- Good decision making skills.
- Good negotiation skills.
- Good cognitive skills.
- Reliable.
- Able to multitask.
- Hard working.
- Selfless.
- Teachable.
- Innovative.
- Goal oriented
- Confidence.
- Exceed expectation.
- Ability to prioritise.
- Consistence.
- Credible.
- Planner.
- Collaborative.
- Curious.
- Precise.
- Good listener.
- Humble.


     4.   The way you communicate its aspect to others.

     5.   How can you be attractive from your curriculum vitae.
- Borders.
- Bold.
- Good paper.
- Use templates.

     6.   Web space.
- Student Support Service.
- Newspapers.
- Topjobs.
- Monster Jobs.

Come up with a description what they are looking from you.
What company you are looking for. its based on the advertisement.

Contents of Curriculum Vitae.


  1. Personal data.
  2. What would you want to achieve in yourself, i.e. career aspirations.
  3. Last 5 years achievements.
  4. Work as volunteer, internships etc.
  5. CIMA, CIM, JAVA,BCS,ISALA, CSSL, Student member.
  6. Prizes and scholarships you won.
  7. Who really knows to non-relative.
               ex. lecturer teacher.

10 Rules to a Great Curriculum Vitae.

  1. Don't play resume roulette.

- Customize it.
- Tailor the curriculum vitae.

    2.   Skip the summary (Puffer, exaggeration).
- Include in the content of the curriculum vitae.
- Your job objective equal the hires job objective.

Career objective.

  • Should include your goals.
  • Your strengths.
  • Where you want to work.
  • Career aspirations.

     3.   Sell not tell.
                ex. I am an excellent thinker.

- Need to have some provement.
        ex: Can say you are a member of a Toastmaster.
             Can say pass the cambridge proficiency exam.
             You are a captain of the basket ball team.

- Focus on a factors.
       Need to give evidence to prove.


     4.   Mind your language.
- Don't use jargon words.
- Need to improve cognitive skills.
- Don't use 'I'. Always write curriculum vitae in third person.
         ex: The document could be concludes as ............ during this.

     5.   Don't use anything personal.
- Keep your personal details short.
- Use appropriate terms.
        ex: In your interests if you are a sales re presenter your interest might be travelling.

     6.   Drop the irrelevant affiliations.

     7.   Keep it real.

     8.   Write a cover letter.

     9.   Include a resent photography.

   10.   Don't forget the basics.

Learning gain of the Lecture.

Identify what are the important things in curriculum vitae.

Personal Opinion.

Learn about how to write good curriculum vitae, what are the including of curriculum vitae and ten rules to write good curriculum vitae.

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