The Curriculum Vitae (CV) is your professional presentation and the first impact that the company, and the people to whom you send it, receive from you. For this reason, you must make sure that your CV includes your entire academic and professional career in a comprehensive, concise and attractive way.
PROFESSIONAL IMAGE
The CV must transmit a professional image, according to the activity to be carried out and the industry of the employer, but always showing a solid impression of your education and work history. You should choose a clean design, with a clear and professional typography, a good structure and, in general, try not to occupy more than two pages on one side (any other information can be attached later). Use one or two colours preferably, with a modern and formal appearance. Try to avoid images, graphics, logos, … It is better to err on the side of sobriety than creativity in a CV of an experienced manager or professional like you.
WELL ESTRUCTURED
As a general rule, a CV should have five clearly structured sections: personal data, education, professional experience, languages and other knowledge and skills. In addition, we recommend that you write a brief description of your profile at the beginning of the CV, adapting it to the requirements of the position to which you apply. You can complement it with a list of Tags or Keywords with your most staked skills and experiences. If you want, you can include at the end of the CV a section of ‘other Information of Interest’ (accreditations, recognitions, awards, teaching activity, hobbies, …).
CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
In each section, you must organize your career chronologically, from the most current (first) to the oldest (last). It is a standard that applies to the entire CV. The dates must be detailed in month / year format. More or less detail can be suspicious. Inactive periods in your professional career, if they exist, must be explained (it is better than trying to hide them).
COMPLETE AND CONCISE
It is important to ensure that none of the relevant information is missing to describe your academic background and career. But it is important to be concise. Each responsibility in your career must have a brief description regarding its content and achievements, but do not exceed 3 or 4 lines, enough to be understood by the evaluator. You will have time in an interview to provide details.
PUT FOCUS ON YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS
When you detail each professional stage, each responsibility, focus more on describing your achievements in the position in a tangible way – quantify, share success stories – as well as your specific span of responsibility. Don’t just describe the job functions, which your evaluator generally knows well. Always put the important things first.
REMOVE WHAT DOES NOT ADD VALUE
Anything redundant or insignificant detracts from the CV (e.g. writing ‘CV’ in the header is unnecessary and detracts from your personality, the format itself makes clear what it is). Avoid topics; give visibility to what is relevant. It is recommended that, with this message in mind, you take a final reading of the CV to get rid of the unnecessary ‘weight’.
THE TRUTH AHEAD
Every candidate asks whether or not to put this or that personal data (e.g. age, children, marital status, …). You are neither obliged to put it nor to answer questions of that nature. You should be the one to decide whether or not you should put this or that piece of information if you think that it can give you more options of being summoned for an interview in a specific process. In any case, throughout the selection process, all the information will come out in one way or another. Our recommendation is that you always act transparently and honestly, without, however, providing information in advance that may prejudge you in any way.
IN THE MIND OF THE EVALUATOR
Whatever your career is and the format you choose to reflect it, never lose the perspective of who is going to evaluate you. The CV must give concrete and coherent answers to the questions that the interviewer needs to know to decide if your profile matches with the requirements for the vacancy.
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Your resume (CV) is your introduction card to employers. Having the perfect CV -complete, concrete, structured and engaging- is key to giving way to the executive selection process you are interested on.
With CVmaker you can quickly and easily create a professional CV.
ENTER YOUR DATA
Load your contact and personal data, education, professional career, languages and any other information of interest.
You can also add your photo and a personal presentation.
CHOOSE THE DESIGN OF YOUR CV
Decide the style of your CV from a wide range of formats.
Adapt the look and feel to your professional profile, personal tastes and the company and type of position your are applying to.
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If you want to have a professional and appealing CV, use our CVmaker application
Your resume (CV) is your introduction card to employers. Having the perfect CV -complete, concrete, structured and engaging- is key to giving way to the executive selection process you are interested on.
With CVmaker you can quickly and easily create a professional CV.
ENTER YOUR DATA
Load your contact and personal data, education, professional career, languages and any other information of interest.
You can also add your photo and a personal presentation.
CHOOSE THE DESIGN OF YOUR CV
Decide the style of your CV from a wide range of formats.
Adapt the look and feel to your professional profile, personal tastes and the company and type of position your are applying to.