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Make sure your CV is up-to-date

A sure-fire way of annoying employers is to submit a CV that isn't bang up to date. if you don't want to get off on the wrong foot make sure your CV is updated.

Achievements

Doing your job is not an achievement. It's what you get paid for. With that in mind consider the achievements that you want to list carefully, and think about how you list them. Don't offer vague opinions on how wonderful you are without being able to back it up.. Just list facts. If you can't demonstrate something that you think you're really good at, don't list it at all.

Keep your opinions to yourself

Your CV is a place to list tangible facts about you, what you do and what you've achieved to date. Don't list opinions about what you feel you can or can't do. If you want to include that sort of stuff on your application keep it in the covering letter (but make sure you can back it up with facts).

Don't outsmart yourself with fancy design

Don't try to be too fancy. A nice layout that sticks out is great but it shouldn't come at the expense of usability. If your CV looks great but the reader can't find the information they are looking for, it will go in the bin. Avoid putting your photograph on your CV. The only people who should put a photograph on a CV are those are applying for a modelling or acting job.

CV file formats

Most companies use Microsoft Word. If you are emailing your CV make sure it is in a file format that the recipient can open. Even if you use a different word processor program you should still be able to save the file in a format that Word can understand. The most popular are .doc, .docx, .rtf, .txt and .pdf. We recommend that you steer clear of PDF files though as they cannot be edited by the recipient and the formatting is often lost when importing into database software packages.

Spelling and grammar

If your CV is riddled with spelling or grammar mistakes, don't expect it your application to go very far. It shows laziness and lack of attention to detail. Just about every word processor software package has a spell checker on it these days. Make sure you use it and make sure you proof read your CV once or twice, or better still, get someone else to do it for you.

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