A CV or curriculum vitae or Resume on english is a marketing tool, is crucial factor when you apllied some jobs or scholarship. With your CV you will be able to promote yourself. Imagine the CV as being a brochure that will list the benefits of a particular service. The service being your time and skills and what you can do! When writing a CV look at it from your target of view. Would you stand out against the competition (the other candidates) and would they want to talk you for a possible job or scholarships? You have to ask yourself these questions when writing your CV or curriculum vitae.
CV it's just first step to reach your goal, However a CV will be your first contact with potential college and will open the door. If they are interest you will come tou next stage.
The simple way to created CV you can get from template on Office Word, you just followed that template and put some information on there and you finish. But we can talk about the items on the cv it self.
Many website or book said what the important item on CV but the regular problem is that they do not agree with each other when it comes to details. This is why we have put here together a number of generally agreed guide-lines, plus some specific details that could help us.
I will bring list of point on here after that we talk about the detail point.
- Personal details
- Objective
- Awards received
- Practical experience
- Extracurricular activities
- Languages
- Computer skills
- Hobbies
- Action Words
Personal Detail
On this section you put all about how you are include your birth date, contact address, email, telephone number and nationality. In case you have both a permanent and study address, include both, with the dates when you can be contacted at each of them. Personal details can be written with smaller fonts than the rest of your CV, if you want to save space. They do not have to jump in the reader's attention - you will never convince somebody to hire you because you have a nice email alias! If your CV managed to awaken the reader's interest, he or she will look after contact details - it is important that they be there, but not that they are the first thing somebody reads in your CV. You should write your name with a bigger font than the rest of the text, so that the reader knows easily whose CV is he or she reading. If you need to save space, you can delete the Curriculum Vitae line on the top of your CV. After all, if you have done a good job writing it, it should be obvious that that piece of paper is a CV, no need to spell it out loud.
Objective
Please start your cv with your education, don't play cheat whit all data that you write on CV cause cheating in Western schools is very serious problem. This a few brief which I can get
"If you, the visitor of our site, are who we think we are - a young student, or a person who has just graduated, you should start your CV with your education. Very probably, at this age it is your most important asset. We suggest you use the reverse chronological order, since it is more important what master's degree you have rather than that, very probably, you went to high school in your native town. No matter for which order you decide - chronological or reverse - you should keep it the same throughout the rest of your CV. Try to give an exact account of your accomplishments in school: grades (do not forget to write the scale if it may differ from the one the reader of your CV is used to), standing in class (in percent), title of your dissertation, expected graduation date if you think this is an important aspect. There is no need to write all of the above, but only those that put you in the best light. Are you not in the best 20% of your class? Better not to mention ranking then, maybe you still have good grades, or your school is a renowned one. In any case, do not make your results better than in reality - you cannot know how this information may be checked and the whole application will lose credibility."
Award Receive
You should introduce this header right after the education, in order to outline all the scholarly or otherwise distinctions you have received. Another solution is to include these awards in the education section, but this might make the lecture difficult - the reader wants to get from that section an impression about the schools you went to and the overall results, not about every distinction you were awarded. Still, these are important! Therefore, here is the place to mention them - scholarships, stages abroad you had to compete for, prizes in contests, any kind of distinction. Here, same as everywhere in your CV, write a detailed account of what happened: do not just mention the year and "Prize in Physics", but rather give the exact date (month), place, name and organiser of the competition. For a scholarship abroad, write the time frame, name of the University, Department, the subject of classes there - e.g. managerial economics - name of the award-giving institution, if different from that of the host-university.
Practical Experiences
Here you should include internships as well. Don't feel ashamed with what you did, don't try to diminish your accomplishments! Nobody really expects you to have started a million dollar business if you're still a student - even better if you did, though! Accountability is an important criterion for what you write in this section. The account should show what you improved, where, by how much, what your responsibilities were. The idea is that when you apply for a job you have to show growth-potential. That is, that you proved some kind of progress from one job to another and that especially at the last one you were so good, you could obviously do something that involves more responsibility - like the job you are applying for now. The overall result should portray you as a leader, a person with initiative and creativity - don't forget you have to convince the reader of your CV that you are the best pick for that job.
Extracurricular activities
Show they are you not just nerd with good grade, but you are the social person and hava any activities out of your study time. If the look this they will find you are the good one to be leader sometimes.
Languages
Give they are what your primary language and what language that you can, with scale. The suggest of scale is : conversational, intermediate, advanced, and fluent. And list any certificated and/or results like TOEFL scores, with date.
Computer skills
Write everything you know, including Internet browsers and text editing skills. There is no absolute need to know C++ unless you wanna be a programmer or something. List certificates and specialty studies as well. Make sure all of the certificate and skill your ability clear.
Hobbies
list them if space is left on the page. They look fine in a CV, showing you are not a no-life workaholic, but a normal person. There is no need to have a 20,000 pieces stamp collection, you can mention reading or mountain tracking as well.
Action Words
Make use of these action words in your curriculum vitae. [take from http://www.handsoncv.co.uk/subwords.asp]
Achieved | Developed | Maintained |
Example of action word
Action phrases... education
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Action phrases... skills
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Action phrases... profile
You can introduce other headers that suit your needs. Some CV's, for example, have a summary heading, that brings in front what the author considers to be the most important stuff in his/her CV. A references section, where you can list with contact details persons ready to recommend you can be added as well. If it misses, the recruiters will assume they are available on request.
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