A CV is typically longer than a traditional resume and includes additional sections such as research and publications, presentations, professional associations and more. CVs are commonly two or more pages while resumes are typically only one page in length. Outside of the U. Licenses and certifications: Include the name of the license or certificate, the date you earned it and the institution that awarded it.
Your CV should be legible and easy to follow. To improve readability, it's best to choose a sans-serif font between 10 and 11 points. It should be clean and simple without much detail or decor. Here are several examples of good fonts for your CV:. A good rule of thumb is to keep your margins between. Margins that are too large will leave too much white space while margins that are too small can make the page look busy and overfilled.
Both may be distracting or off-putting to recruiters and hiring managers. Organize with bulleted lists: Make lists, such as your collection of skills or awards easier to consume by adding small bullets.
Use section headers: Distinguish section headers from the rest of your CV content by making them bolder, larger or underlined. Bold keywords: In addition to section headers, consider bolding other important words, such as your name and job titles, to set them apart. Remove irrelevant information: Use the limited space on your CV to promote only the most relevant and impressive information about your background.
Remove experience older than 15 years and dates from your education section if you have five or more years of professional experience. Before you send your CV to employers, take time to carefully check your spelling, grammar and syntax. A clean, error-free CV increases readability and demonstrates professionalism. Recruit a trusted friend, family member or colleague to review your resume. Particularly in a job CV, your prospective employer will want to know what you have learnt from your work experience.
It is therefore a important to list as bullet points under each job the principal duties you were involved in and the things you achieved. Commercial CV companies particularly emphasise the importance of stressing your achievements.
For example, instead of "helped organise conference" you might say "successfully organised major conference". These are only necessary in a study CV, and should be kept brief. The date, the funding body and the name of the sources of study is enough. Unless you are desperate for something to fill up space, it is probably only worth to mentioning conferences where you have presented. Include the date, title of conference, location, and the title of your presentation.
Only needed in academic CVs. Again, these are principally for academic CVs, unless it is relevant to your professional job. Date, title of paper and of the journal including volume number is enough, or date, title and publisher in the case of a book. At the end of your CV come the smaller categories of minor but useful skills such as languages, computing skills, driving license etc.
Languages you only have a very limited command of and which are not relevant to the job are probably not worth including. Hobbies and interests are not necessary on a study CV. Decide for yourself, but remember it is the least important part of the CV. Few documents require such care in their design and such skill with word processing software as a curriculum vitae.
Even the best CV can be ruined by cramped, fussy or untidy presentation. In laying out your CV, there are three basic principles that should be born in mind: consistency, clarity and simplicity. When you choose the font, style bold, italic etc. Make sure if one section heading is Arial 12 pt bold, all section headings are Arial 12 pt bold and that none of them is underlined or italic. If the dates under Education are 11 pt, make sure that under Employment they are not 10 pt. If one entry has a bullet point, put bullet points on all.
If you use paragraph spacing, make sure that you have the same space after or before each paragraph of the same type. The information on your CV should stand out. This means that it should not be too small nor too cramped.
White space is very powerful in design because it gives power to the little that is there. Packing your page as full as possible makes it visually unattractive and hard to read. If what you have to say doesn't fill the page, don't leave all the white space at the bottom; put empty lines between sections to separate them more clearly.
If you have to have two pages, don't just put the last five lines on page two, spread the sections out a bit - and make sure a section is not split over two pages. Few lines of a CV will take the width of the page. If all lines are short, the text will all sit on the left and the result will be unbalanced. If this is the case, allow bigger margins. This can be achieved either by setting your margins to your longest line or reducing the number of words in that line.
Descriptions of duties and skills can wrap if necessary, but make sure that you do not end up with an isolated word or two on a new line. A CV is a professional document; its appearance should be serious and businesslike, without clutter. Century Gothic and text should be serif e. Times or Garamond. However, some CV agencies now suggest you use one sans serif font only, especially if you may be faxing your CV, as serif fonts are harder to read on a poorly printed fax.
A good range to use might be 11 pt for basic text, and 12 pt for headings, or if you have a lot to fit in, 11 pt and 10 pt. Don't go below 10 pt. I also met with students regularly for conferences," you might write, "Composition Instructor Planned course activities.
Graded all assignments. Held regular conferences with students. Parallelism is also very important to a strong CV. Thus, if you use verb phrases in one portion of your CV to describe your duties, try to use them throughout your CV. Particularly within entries, make sure that the structure of your phrases is exactly parallel so that your reader can understand what you are communicating easily. One distinction between the work description sections of resumes and CVs is that bullets are very commonly used in resumes and tend to appear somewhat less frequently in CVs.
Whether or not you use bullets to separate lines in your CV should depend on how the bullets will affect the appearance of your CV. If you have a number of descriptive statements about your work that all run to about a line in length, bullets can be a good way of separating them.
If, however, you have a lot of very short phrases, breaking them up into bulleted lists can leave a lot of white space that could be used more efficiently.
Remember that the principles guiding any decision you make should be conciseness and ease of readability. Purdue's Writing Lab provides the opportunity to work with one of our graduate instructors in order to get some assistance with your CV, and many other universities offer similar opportunities through their writing centers. Finally, many departments have job search or job placement committees that provide you with the opportunity to meet with faculty members in your department for extensive editing.
New Haven: Yale University Press forthcoming. Here are additional resources and CV examples to review to get ideas and inspiration for writing your own CV. Don't just write one CV and use it for every position you apply for.
When possible, try to keep your CV short and concise. Include summaries of your employment and education, rather than lots of details. Use formal no slang or abbreviations language, writing simply and clearly. It can be tempting to over-polish a CV and make our educational qualifications or work history sound a little better than they are.
If you're tempted to stretch the truth about your work history - don't. It will come back to haunt you. Most employers conduct reference and background checks , and if your curriculum vitae doesn't match your actual work history or education, you will most likely get caught at some point — either you will be cut as a candidate or you will get fired if you have already been hired.
Look at the format of your curriculum vitae. Is there plenty of white space? Is it cluttered? Is your formatting consistent bold, italic, spacing, etc. Double-check your curriculum vitae for typos and grammatical errors.
Then, ask someone else to review it for you - it's often hard to catch our mistakes. Make sure you choose a curriculum vitae format that is appropriate for the position you are applying for. If you are applying for a fellowship, for example, you won't need to include the personal information that may be included in an international CV. Here are the details on when to use a CV, what to include, and how to write it.
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