Your CV is your selling tool and is designed to secure an interview for you. Ensure that it contains no typographical errors, proof read it and run a spell check over it. The reader will be adversely affected if your CV isn’t clear and concise.

• Commence your CV with a brief profile of you as a person. Get the reader interested.
• Outline your responsibilities and achievements. This is your opportunity to sell yourself and capture the reader’s attention. Use words that are positive and punchy.
• Always include the dates, specifying the months and the years that you were employed in different companies
• Be honest. The truth will come out in reference checking. Make the language sound positive and clear and don’t use fancy fonts, unusual font sizes or graphics that can slow down the transmission.
• If you have been promoted within the company make this obvious in your CV and if you have worked for affiliate companies, make this clear so that the reader doesn’t think you have been job-hopping.
• Include a brief description of the company and what it does. This is especially important if you have been working for a company that is not well known.
• Supply a list of referees along with their phone numbers and notify them that they may be contacted in relation to a reference. Otherwise it is acceptable to state that referees will be supplied upon request.
• Attach a covering letter highlighting your skills and appropriateness for the position.
• Always include your contact details on your CV, including your email address.
• Click here for a suggested Resume template.