This document provides guidance on creating an effective CV. It emphasizes including concrete details about your main duties and responsibilities at previous jobs to clearly demonstrate your relevant skills and experience to potential employers. It also recommends highlighting any projects you have worked on and your achievements. The document advises structuring your CV with your most recent job experience first, followed by education/certifications and languages to optimize your chances of standing out from other applicants.

1. Your CV/ Résumé
Guidance From Our
Consultants

2. Introduction
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YOUR CV
Your CV is a window into your experience and it needs to highlight quickly and
succinctly your achievements to date in your career. In addition, tailoring your
CV dependant on the role you are applying for is also good practice.
If you have been working at a company for a period of time it can sometimes be
difficult to express all of your successes and evolving responsibilities but this
will be key to convincing a potential employer that you are their next ideal hire.
Your consultant at Enginestaff will give you adhoc advice around your CV
including its content and presentation but we believe that the information
contained in this guide will give you a good base to create a CV that attracts the
attention of companies and gets that crucial first foot through the door.

3. Your CV
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THINGS TO REMEMBER
Main Duties and Responsibilities
What interviewers really care about is whether you can do the job. You would be surprised at how
many CVs our consultants come across that give no indication as to what they did on a daily basis at
the previous jobs.
You must be specific, what exactly were your duties? What were the key details of your job that your
potential new employer will want to hear about?
Projects
Employees in the engineering industry will be well accustomed to working on projects. Employers
are extremely keen to hear about your experiences. What projects did you work on? What were your
responsibilities and what were your achievements? This is the perfect chance to talk yourself up!
Structure of Your CV
With regards to the layout of your CV, here is how we think you should set it out:
Employment Experience
This should go at the very top of your CV with your most recent job at the top. Include exact dates
and justify any gaps in a positive light. Your employment experience should follow a career statement
which consists of a brief paragraph outlining your skills and motivations for progress in your career.
This section will obviously involve what you have written for your main duties and responsibilities.
Education & Certifications
Next you should list your academic qualifications as well as any relevant certifications you have
achieved
Languages
As we work with clients and companies all over Europe listing your linguistic capabilities could push
you to the top of the queue for a new job. For example, if you are looking to move to Belgium and you
can speak French and Dutch this gives you a wide scope of roles to choose from.