CV TIPS

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CV TIPS FROM CAPRECRUIT 💡

• Write a professional and effective CV

  Create a proper CV - Don't use the Indeed template or rely on your linkedin page.

  A CV is a beautiful opportunity to showcase your achievements, experience and skills to prospective employers. In all of my years in recruitment, I'm yet to see an Indeed templated CV compare with a carefully curated CV. 🖌

• Keep it constantly updated (even when not job seeking).

  As humans, we often have a tendency to forget/trivialise certain aspects of our job, especially over a number of years or in the heat of a job search.

  I would suggest updating your CV every 6 months. That promotion, those targets smashed, the extra responsibilities, put that all down.

  Who knows it could be useful info to bring up when discussing payrises 👀

• This one is controversial but NO PHOTOS.

  How you look is no indicator to your ability to do the role*.

  Beyond that, we thankfully also have anti-discrimination laws in the UK in place which make it a fair process, so there is no need to put a photo on a CV.

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• Have a Master CV and then a tailored version, for specific roles

• Check Spelling and Grammar! And then check it again or get a friend or family member to proof read it.

  This is self-explanatory but... you'd be surprised 🙈😅

• Keep .Doc and .Pdf versions.

  This is mainly one for the recruiters of the world.

  Before sending CVs to clients, a recruiter will format a CV to ensure uniformity in all their submissions and to remove contact & personal details. PDFs with janky formatting can add an unnecessary amount of extra time, so if you could keep a .doc format, your recruiter will love you.

• Don't put the names and details of your references at the bottom.

  'References are available on request' will suffice.