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1. CV & Interview Training
For Software Engineer
Trainer: Vu Nhat Anh
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2. Purposes
CV-Writing skills Interviewing skills
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3. Background
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4. Why?
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5. Take an action!
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6. CV-Writing skills
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8. What is CV?
§ Stands for “Curriculum Vitae”
§ Is a written description of your work experience,
education background, skills and other information.
§ Is to show off yourself and to persuade the employer
to invite you to interview.
§ Should be one or two pages.
§ Use CV when apply for a job!
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9. What is CV?
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10. Main information
Four main sections in CV:
§ Personal information.
§ Work experience.
§ Education background.
§ Specific skills.
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11. Additional information
Additional sections you may includes:
§ Career objective
§ Professional Summary (Career summary).
§ Certifications & awards.
§ Social activities.
§ Personal hobbies.
§ References
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12. Personal information
Provide at least your contact information includes:
§ Full name
§ Email (Should be formal)
§ Telephone number
§ Current address
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13. Personal information
You may include these additional information:
§ Profile picture
§ Job title (Depend on template)
§ Date of birth (Optional)
§ Marital status (Optional)
§ Gender (Optional)
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14. Personal information
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15. Work experience
Your work experience, beginning with your most
recent includes:
§ Company name
§ Job title (Position)
§ Start/End date
§ Job description/Experience gained
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16. Work experience (Tips)
Remember the flowing rules:
§ Start with the most recent at the top.
§ Don’t need to mention the experience from many
years ago.
§ Write the description short and focus on the most
valuable experience.
§ Include proofs or reference links if you have
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17. Work experience (Incorrect)
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18. Work experience (Correct)
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19. Education background
Your education history, beginning with your most
recent includes:
§ School/Institute’s name
§ Years of study and graduation
§ Your major
§ Short description (optional)
§ Your grade (if you proud of it or it is required)
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20. Education background (Tips)
Remember the flowing rules:
§ Start with the most recent at the top.
§ Don’t need to mention the primary, secondary, or
high-school.
§ Include your University (and upper), and training
course related to your job is enough.
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21. Education background (Example)
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22. Specific skills
Include skills related to your job you want to apply:
§ Specialized skills
§ Soft skills (Teamwork, Leadership, Communication..)
§ Languages (English, Japanese..)
§ Computer skills (For non-IT job)
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23. Specific skills – Five-stars
Evaluate your skill by 5 levels:
§ Level 1: Learned but have almost
no experience
§ Level 2: Used to work with,
experience under 6 months
§ Level 3: Experienced 1 ~ 2 years
§ Level 4: Have intensive experience
in this field (3 ~ 5 years)
§ Level 5: Expert (Over 5 years)
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24. Career objective
Three or for lines to describe
your career objective:
§ Includes your long-term, short-term
goals in career.
§ Express your long-term commitment
to the company and wanting to get
improvement.
§ Keep it short and simple.
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25. Professional summary
Focus on summarizing your experience, working-
position, skills and qualifications.
§ Most helpful for experienced candidates.
§ Keep it short and simple.
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26. Activities
Show-up that you are an active person.
§ Includes your social activities you took part in and your
responsibilities.
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27. Hobbies (Interests)
Help the recruiter understand more
about you.
§ You are healthy if you like sports.
§ You play football well so you may good at
teamwork.
§ If you are game-planer you will be
prioritized if you love playing game.
§ From your interest you may be suitable or
not-suitable with company-culture …
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28. Reference
Include one or two people who know
you well and have worked with you
§ Should be your previous Manager/Teacher/Coach..
§ Should be authoritative and professional
§ Include: Full name, Position, Company/Address,
Telephone, Email…
§ If you dont want to provide the reference or full
contact you may write “Contact detail is available
on request” OR “References are available on
request”
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29. Projects (For Developers)
Projects that you worked on includes:
§ Project Name
§ Project Start/End date (Should be Month/Year)
§ Your customer: Company XYZ, Freelance customer, Personal Project..
§ Project’s short description
§ Project-team’s size
§ Your responsibilities: Team-leader, Developer, Tester…etc
§ Technologies used/Experiences
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30. Projects (For Developers)
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31. Tips
Some tips you should follow:
§ Write your CV by yourself.
§ Different strategies for different jobs/positions.
§ Don’t write valueless information to your CV.
§ Clear, informative, concise, and focusable.
§ Check your spelling and grammar.
§ Saying the truth.
§ Latest information come first
§ Always read your CV carefully before send it to
Employer.
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32. Review CV session
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35. Interviewing-skills
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36. What is an interview
An interview is:
§ The final stage before you got your job
OR failed.
§ A conversation between you and your
Employer.
§ It may be face-to-face or via a phone-
call
§ It is very important, and need to be
prepared!
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37. The correct flow
Before
Interview
During
Interview
After
Interview
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38. Before Interview
Research the company:
You must show that you know & understand about the company you
applied for!
§ What is is the Products & Service that company is providing?
§ What is the customer, competitors?.
§ How is the company’s culture?
§ Your position you apply for in the company?
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39. Before interview
Tips to research company:
§ Read carefully the Job Description
§ Visit company’s website & FB-page (Google it if
you don’t know).
§ Try talking with someone who worked in this
company if possible.
§ Google for the company’s product & it’s industry
for deep understanding what company are
working on, their advantages and disadvantages.
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40. Before Interview
Prepare questions to be asked:
After researching, you should prepare the list of question you may be
asked during the interview!
§ Common questions: Introduce yourself, Your strength/weakness, why
you know about the company …etc.
§ Specialized question. (Ex: What is OOP?).
§ Reason for leaving old companies or taking this job?.
§ Your expected salary?.
§ Any questions to ask the interview?
§ Some others question base on your CV & the situation.
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41. Before Interview
Tips for introducing question:
§ Say “thank” to the interviewer before start introducing.
§ Introduce about yourself includes:
• Your Name DOB, University
• Professional Summary/Objective/Wishes
• Strengths/Weaknesses.
• Why you know the company (or the job)
§ Keep it short and simple!
§ Try practice at home before the interview.
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42. Before Interview
Tips for specialized question:
§ Self-review your knowledge related to your job. (Ex: PHP Developer)
§ Finding sample test/interview question in the internet or asking friends.
§ Find question banks in the internet then test yourself. (Ex: PHP
Certification Test Book)
§ Look through your CV, the interviewer may base on your CV to make
questions.
§ Try to answer as much as you can (even a half of the question).
§ SAY THE TRUTH if you don’t know the answer.
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43. Before Interview
Sample of specialized questions:
• May be anything depends on the interviewer! Sometime the answer may be various!
§ Language specified/Coding/Language/G-Math/Algorithm test ..etc.
§ Why we should making software in three layers.
§ What is the difference between Abstract class and Interface?
§ Tell me your most memorable memory when you doing a project.
§ What would you do if you need to write new feature to the source code
that have no document or code-comment.
§ What do you thing is most important in team-working.
§ Do you know Agile process-model in software development.
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44. Before Interview
Reason for applying this job:
• Should have researched well about the company ! *
§ Company are doing business that you are interested in. (Ex: Game)
§ Your company fit with my strengths.
§ Company accept candidate with less experience.
§ Have good opportunity to gain experience..
§ Company has such a big deal. (if it noticeable!)
§ Have chance to work overseas.
§ ..etc.
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45. Before Interview
Practice sample cases:
• Keep it positive & tell the truth! *
• Apply to a Big company.
• Apply to a Small company.
• Apply to an outsourcing company.
• Apply to a company provide their own service.
• Apply to a startup.
• ..etc.
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46. Before Interview
Reason for leaving old job:
* Keep it positive & tell the truth! *
§ Have no choice! (Ex: changing address, family’s reason, health ..etc.)
§ Want a better working environment.
§ Want to challenge yourself more in the new job.
§ You have better deal from the new company. (if it noticeable!)
§ You are finding a better chance of promotion in the new job.
§ Finding a job that fit more with your strengths.
§ Finding a chance to work overseas.
§ ..etc.
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47. Before Interview
Practice sample cases:
• Keep it positive & tell the truth! *
• From a Small company to a Big company and
vice versa.
• From a Big company to a startup and vice versa.
• Different businesses. (Ex: Outsourcing vs Service
providing)
• Same type and scale (Why???).
• ..etc.
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48. Before Interview
Prepare the question to ask the interviewer:
• Depend on what you’ve researched & during the discussion *
• More detail about the job that you apply for.
• The interviewer’s expectation when hiring you.
• Training program in company (Good for newbie).
• Opportunities of promotion or working overseas.
• Some more about the company business and plan in the near future.
• The company cultures & extra activities. (Ex: Football club)
• ..etc.
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49. Before Interview
Tips for salary negotiation:
§ The average salary of the position that you apply for.
§ The average salary of your experience & education.
§ Decide your own target before the interview. (The expectation, the lowest
acceptable)
§ Postpose the salary offer before you are offered the job.
§ Let the interviewer offer first if possible.
§ Start from your highest expectation because you can only negotiate down.
§ At the last-step you may deal some more for additional benefit. (Ex: Travel-
allowance, lunch-allowance, overtime-allowance…etc.)
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50. Before Interview
Language usage for salary negotiation:
§ DON’T say “I Think..”, DO say: “My expectation is,…”
§ Clear & Confident & Reasonable. Ex:
• According to my research, the average salary for two year
experience is…
• I belive that my experience and skillset should be deserved for a
little higher than the average of this position.
§ Use the right tone & patient.
§ keep silent when other-side are talking.
§ Be persistent!
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51. Before Interview
What to wear to the interview?
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52. During interview
Make good impression at the first time:
§ Ask permission before come in the room.
§ Say thank to the interviewer before sitting.
§ Say sorry if you do something wrong.
§ Express your interests in the interview.
§ Be confident, comfortable and keep smiling.
§ Keep eyes contact. Do not ignore the interviewer or look at the ceil.
§ Use your hand & do not touch your face.
§ Sitting straight.
§ Say thank you again after the interview session.
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53. After the interview
After the interview you should do following
§ Write an email to say thank to the interviewer and your hope to be a
member in the company.
§ If after a long time you are not receive the result you can send an
extra email or make a phone call.
§ If you are failed, keep calm and respect the employer. Say sorry and
hope you can have other chance in the future.
§ NEVER backbite the interviewer on blog or facebook even when you
failed.
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54. Interview & Q&A
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