Writing a Good CV

Page 1

•  Name
•  Address & Telephone Numbers
•  Availability - (Notice period or date available)
•  Date of Birth

Page 2

• Overall summary covering latest 3 years (1 page)
  To include:
  
• Qualifications, foreign languages spoken and what position and work you are looking for plus skills such as Hardware, Software, Casetools, Methodologies, Databases etc.
  (How many years and months used for each)

Subsequent Pages

• Each job entry covering last 5 years:
  Reverse chronological order, if one job, break down by each position held
  
• Dates:
  From, To
  
• Employer:
  Name & Location
  
• Hardware:
  Hardware environment(s) of the site (e.g., IBM Mainframe, HP9000)
  
• Software:
  Operating system environment e.g., Unix
  followed by Software used by you at this site.
  Languages used:
  Position:

Work undertaken, Duties, Responsibilities:
(What you worked on - systems in brief)
(What responsibilities)
(What you did: i.e., what you specifically worked on, how you used the software and what you achieved)

Previous Career (older than 5 years)

• Summary:
  2-3 lines per job, or less if many jobs
  
• List of company and position held at each plus brief line about systems worked on/No details