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Valuable Tips In Writing Impressive CVs: # 6-10
Valuable Tip # 6: List the special trainings and short courses you have attended.
Special trainings that are relevant to current job application should be mentioned. This would most likely involve specialized topics specific to a particular field – and if you have such special knowledge, you’ll have an edge.
It would even be best if you were able to try applying such knowledge on particular job settings so that you can include them in the CV to support the value of the training attended – and to prove that you learned useful stuff on such trainings.
Valuable Tip # 7: Forego mentioning of responsibilities and tasks.
Sentences or phrases that mention one’s responsibilities and tasks on previous employments should be avoided.
Employers are not concerned so much on these things as they are more interested on what you have actually accomplished in the course of carrying out your job.
The questions that matter most to them would be: “Were you effective in carrying out your responsibilities?” and “What were your major accomplishments?”
Valuable Tip # 8: List your personal traits that will be of value.
Resourcefulness, having the initiative, proactive, honest, loyal, hardworking, smart and results-oriented – these are what you say you are. And these are better claimed if backed by good and verifiable evidence as well.
So limit such claims to those you can effectively show proof, otherwise it will just seem that you are feeding your ego, or possibly just fooling the reader. Prospective employers will put less weight on such claims that are unverified and unproven sufficiently.
Valuable Tip # 9: Don’t go too far back in your employment history.
It would not be necessary to list all your employment experiences especially if has exceeded more than years, and you have been transferring from one job to another for several times already.
An exception would be if these were relevant experiences to the current position applied for – and if your major accomplishments were on these times.
Valuable Tip # 10: Provide a summary for the key points of your CV at the top.
A summary of the main points of your qualifications will efficiently help the prospective employers know what you are about and what you can offer.
So do this part carefully. It is at this portion that you can choose the best from among your strong points to emphasize the edge you possess over all others applying for the same position.