13/10/2023
"5 Important Things In Every Good CV."
For every good CV that can win the heart of a hiring manager, it is expected to have at least 5 key features. These features are:
1. Who you are (profile/personality):
This section shows basic information about you.
It entails your name, gender, state or country of origin, email ID, phone number, and social media ID (especially linkedin).
It helps the hiring manager to assess your compatibility with the job role by basic features.
Take for instance, if the job role is in need of a man. Upon looking at this section of your CV, your name and indicated gender will let the hiring manager identify your gender easily.
The same goes for every other details in that section.
2. What you can do (potential/capabilities):
This section tells hiring managers and anyone reading your CV about your expertise and capacity.
It tells an hiring manager of what you're good at. At a glance, anyone ready through your CV should be able to tell what you can do and how you fit into what they're looking for.
It is of professional recommendation that you state your expertise in this section of your CV with certain descriptions. This can be in the form of a title, e.g A Highly Experienced Chartered Accountant.
You can also make it in the form of a sentence adding years of experience to it, e.g A highly accomplished mechanical engineer with 15 years of productive experience as a lead drainage construction expert.
3. What you have done (achievement).
This bears some similarities with the previous section of "what you can do".
In this section of "what you have done", it is expected that you state comprehensively your career achievements & contributions. This could be in your present or past place of employment(s).
It is highly advised that you make your achievements as concise and detailed as possible. Also, include helpful statics like definite figures & percentage to show level or rate of professional accomplishments.
It helps gives a more vivid reality of your productivity, e.g., successfully managed 300 staff as a project manager, resulting in 95% success rate of mutli-million dollar road construction project.
It makes your stated achievement more appealing in such manner.
4. Where you have done it (recognition/reputation):
This section is also crucial. As much as what you have done matters, what also matters is where you have done it.
It tells potential hiring managers the legitimacy of your claim and makes it easier to assess your experience level.
It also improves your chances of employment consideration when hiring managers see that you have worked or working with organisations of high reputation, especially in your industry.
5. Guarantee of what you can do:
This part is doesn't have a definite spot in your CV as it can be creatively added in many parts of your CV, especially when stating your expertise & job experiences.
However, it can.be smartly indicated in your Professional Summary.
You are free to write details about your professionalism & expertise that confidently shows how productive you are.
This can improve your chances of selection if and hiring manager not just finds your CV attractive but also convincing.
An example of this is stating your special achievements with your experience in your job description - An expertise that has consistently recorded an avergae of 7 tons per hectare of maize yield every cycle.
Such statement shows a lot in just few lines.
With the above highlighted points, it can be easily see as to why the 5 features are important in your CV.
It makes you easily standout amongst multitudes of applicants.
Making the necessary adjustments in your CV is guaranteed to boost your chances of job considerations during job applications.
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