Craft of building your CV

Building your CV is a craft
Your CV is a craft in which, you present your educational qualifications and experiences. It is a craft of convincing the recruiter that you can create unique value for the company and that you are a very likable person. Everything that you put in your CV must create unique value. If a sentence does not create unique value, take it out. If a word does not create unique value, take it out.
Basic Principals
There are two things that most recruiters are looking for:
a) Can you create unique value for the company?
Your CV must show that you can create unique value for the company. Why should they hire you, as opposed to the numerous other applications? What value do you bring to the company that no one else can?
b)Are you likable?
Even if you were the most brilliant person in the world and the most qualified person for the job, if whenever people see your face they get angry, you wont get a job offer. Some individuals can create a lot of value for a company him/herself, but lowers the ability to create value for everyone else, and companies dont want these people. Especially at the entry levels, companies hire for culture and attitude more than brilliance.

ALWAYS REMEMBER THESE TWO THINGS DURING INFO SESSIONS, INTERVIEWS, AND EVERYTHING ELSE DURING RECRUITING.

Valuable Real Estate: you are one page.
CVs must be succinct and effective, and should be limited to one page (if you dont have more than five years of experience). Besides good networking (which you should do), you are just a name to the recruiters, and you have one page to communicate to them that you have what they want. Every section, sentence, and even every word must create unique value. If it does not, you should remove it.
20 Seconds to Establish a connection.
Depending on company and industry, a recruiter will only spend about 15-20 seconds to view you CV, if not less (I used to spend 5-10 seconds) It is important to make it "feel" good and impressive. As a result, you want to put your most impressive achievements first instead of trying to explain the mundane tasks you did for each experience.

Tomorrow, I will cover "how to build an image through the CV"

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