The document provides tips for creating an effective curriculum vitae (CV) for a job application. It recommends including personal details like name and contact information, education history, qualifications, relevant work history, skills, interests and hobbies, and references. The CV should be neatly presented on clean white paper in an organized layout without folds or creases. It should not exceed two pages and be tailored specifically to the job description by highlighting relevant skills and experience.

2. GET THE BASICS RIGHT
1. Name
2. Contact information
3. Education
4. Qualifications
5. Work history and/or experience
6. Relevant skills to the job in question
7. Own interests, achievements or hobbies; and
some references.

3. PRESENTATION IS KEY
• Clean white paper
• The layout is well structured
• Never crumple or fold it
• Use an A4 envelope

4. STICK TO NO MORE THAN TWO PAGES OF A4

5. UNDERSTAND THE JOB DESCRIPTION
• Take notes and create bullet points
• Highlight everything you can satisfy
• The areas where you're lacking, fill them with
skills you do have.

6. TAILOR THE C.V TO THE ROLE
Don't be lazy and hope that a general CV will work
because it won't.
* You don't have to re-write the whole thing, just adapt the details so they're
relevant.

7. MAKING THE MOST OF SKILLS
Mention key skills that can help you stand out
from the crowd.
* Skills can come out of the most unlikely places, so really think about
what you've done to grow your own skills .
e.g playing sports or voluntary work – it's all relevant.

8. MAKING THE MOST OF INTERESTS
• Highlight the things that employers look for.
• Make yourself sound really interesting.
* e.g positions of responsibility, working in a team
* Don't include passive interests like watching TV, solitary hobbies

9. MAKING THE MOST OF EXPERIENCE
• Use assertive and positive language under the
work history and experience sections
* e.g "developed", "organised" or "achieved".
• Relate the skills you have learned to the job role
*e.g "The work experience involved working in a team,"

10. INCLUDING REFERENCES
• Former employer or teacher
• Try to include two referees

11. KEEP YOUR CV UPDATED

12. QUESTIONS