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Writing a CV is one of the most important parts of job hunting, as it is your initial introduction to any potential employer. You could be the perfect applicant for a job, but if your CV is not up to scratch, you could very well fall at the first hurdle. Most employers will spend less than 10 seconds looking at a CV, so it’s important to make the right impression. The following tips should help you create the perfect CV...

Honesty is the best policy…

If you tell whoppers on your CV, you will get caught out eventually. It may be at the interview stage, it may be at the reference stage, but these days, even the most technophobe of employers knows how to research potential applicants.

Proofread it and proofread it again.

One of the biggest turn offs for prospective employers is a CV littered with spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. Your CV is one of the most important documents you will produce and the impression it gives, if error strewn, is that you are slapdash and lazy.

Length and language

As already stated, you don’t have long to make an impression, so it is important that your CV gets straight to the point. You are not writing an autobiography, so you should make the CV concise and avoid lengthy sentences. Bullet-points are always useful at getting information across. You should also avoid referring to yourself by name or as “I”. Use past tense for your career and present tense

for you skills and competencies. As a rule, it is sensible not to go beyond 3 pages for a CV and if possible keep it to 2.

Layout

Unless you are applying for a job as a graphic designer or similar, it is always wise to avoid being over the top with the CV design. Use one respectable font throughout the document, such as Times New Roman or Arial (and never anything quirky such as Comic Sans). It is always best to stick to a font size of 10 for the body text and a maximum of 14 for your headings (which should always be bold) and avoid different coloured headings.

Tailor the CV to the job you’re applying for

Take the time to change your CV for each role that you are applying for. Use any job adverts and research the company, to work out exactly what skills you should be pointing out the company. In addition to this, a tailored cover letter will only help your application.

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