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Get ahead! How do I write my CV?

Get ahead! How do I write my CV?. Claire Ward, Career Development Adviser. How do I write my CV?. Appreciate the function of a CV Learn about good practice in content and style of CV Understand how to select relevant details for the job

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Get ahead! How do I write my CV?

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  1. Get ahead!How do I write my CV? Claire Ward, Career Development Adviser

  2. How do I write my CV? • Appreciate the function of a CV • Learn about good practice in content and style of CV Understand how to select relevant details for the job • Make connections between experience and employer’s requirements • Understand the purpose and content of covering letters

  3. What is the purpose of a CV? • Demonstrates both suitability and potential for the job/sector • Promote yourself – with particular emphasis on recent and relevant experiences • Tell your story • To get an interview

  4. Consider who is going to read your CV? • What is the employer is looking for? • What is different about being an undergraduate? • Employers want work related skills – people skills, initiative, problem solving, team work • Plus experience of any kind

  5. CV guidelines • Effective layout and presentation • Right amount of detail • Tailored to a particular job - relevant • Interesting – makes you want more

  6. What to include Personal Information Profile Education – what do you have to offer? Work Experience – paid and unpaid Interests – what else do you do? Additional skills – languages, IT literacy Referees Length?

  7. checklist • Have you dissected the job details and researched the job and organisation? • Have you written a list of the essential skills, qualities and experience required and the matching evidence you can offer? • Are you using the right language?

  8. Different styles • Chronological/traditional • Skills based/targeted/functional • Academic • Different – to attract attention

  9. Cover emails and letters • Effective presentation and layout • Not repeating what’s in the CV • Explains interest in the job/why applying • Shows understanding of organisation • Appropriate language/register

  10. What to include • Why writing? • Why you? • Why the employer/organisation? • What next?

  11. Further help Short interview with a careers adviser Mon-Fri 10-5pm Briefing sessions – every lunch time! Employer Events Vacancies – part time, work experience, graduate jobs Website www.sussex.ac.uk/cdec

  12. How do I write my CV?

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