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Curriculum vitae (CV), the first impression about you

Your Curriculum Vitae or CV will be the first contact between you and your employer, writing a professional CV will increase your chance of getting of the job, however before you learn how to write a CV you must first get rid of some wrong ideas surrounding CV writing:

• a CV should only include your work experience or field of study information. This is wrong, your CV is an introduction to you, it should give the viewer an idea about whom you are, what you studied, what you can do (your skills), your hobbies and even your social activities.
• a CV is not that important compared to your interview performance. That’s totally incorrect too, getting a job is a process that involves many variables such as your communication skills, your education and experience, your CV and leaving a positive impression in the job intreview. Think of it as one big system formed of many items, the more strong items that you have, the more the whole system will become stronger and the bigger will be your chance of getting the job.
• the first impression about you is taken when you go for the interview. This is not true too, the first impression is taken about you when your CV is viewed and then another impression is taken about you when you arrive there that will either support the first impression or erase it.

How to write a professional curriculum vitae(cv)

The following are steps that will make your CV writing process become more professional:

• divide your CV into major sections for example:
  • personal information (your name,address,phone number..etc)
  • education (what you have studied in addition to any additional courses)
  • work experience (in case you have worked before or made a training)
  • spoken languages: all of the languages that you do speak
  • your computer skills, personal skills or any other skills
  • hobbies and interests: this will give an idea to the interviewer about what type of person you are for example someone who likes to play computer strategy games may be a good thinker.
• although some companies do require a photo with the CV still I don’t recommend so, simply because if the person who will sort the CVs have got a negative look’s anchor associated with your picture he may ignore your CV, after all you are not dealing with angles, it’s a human whom is going to review your CV.
• Try to make your CV fit within 2 pages, this is how a professional CV should be, however there is big problem in writing more than 2 pages but on one condition, which is that the additional information are real achievements and not just nonsense to make the CV look bigger. A type A personality in most cases will have more than a 2 page CV.
• Write only the things that you are sure of, its not necessary to remember 100 percent of every additional course that you took, but at least you shouldn’t add something that you totally forgot about, simply because if the interviewer asked you a question about something In your CV and then he found that he don’t know, you will be considered a liar and off course you will lose the job.
• Review the CV many times in order to make sure that there is no grammar mistakes, spelling mistakes or gaps because if the interviewer found mistakes like these he may consider you not caring about the job.
• your CV should be full, because the employer wont be interested in someone who is just like the other hundreds who applied, he wants to see something different. In case that you don’t have many skills, try to dig deep and remember anything that you can write, don’t just hand one half full page.
• don’t write long phrases just very detailed brief lines, using bullets will make your CV much more organized and more clear for the reader.

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