CV Writing

“A good CV is a passport to getting an interview - to make a good impression it will need to stand out and get noticed.”

Benefits

The job market is highly competitive at this time.  To succeed you will need to present yourself in the best possible light and sell your skills & talents like never before.  Your CV is a vital tool for helping to make that essential first impression.

Aim

To understand the key elements that will sell you & your skills and ensure you have the ability to write a CV that gets noticed & improve your chance of getting an interview.

Objectives

By the end of the training you will be able to…

• Understand what employers look for in a potential candidate
• Recognise the common mistakes that people make when preparing their CV
• Prepare a CV with impact that gives you a better chance of landing that ideal job

Content

• Evaluating a specific job opportunity (and matching your skills to it)
• Assessing what an employer is looking for in a candidate
• Essential aspects of good CV design (and what to avoid)
• Developing an effective writing style…
  • Sentence construction (common grammatical errors to avoid & the correct use of punctuation)
  • Paragraph construction (including using ‘parallelism’ & ‘signposting’)
• Aspects of effective layout and design (including the ‘Words in Tables’ approach)
• Proofreading and ‘streamlining’ your text (to keep it shorter and ‘lighter’)
• Writing an effective cover letter (and the reasons for doing so)

Duration

1 day