Top five tips for CV writing
Make sure you avoid making these top five CV mistakes. Find out more here about writing a professional CV.
CV Workshop
Learning outcomes:
- Update and rework your CV with recommended guidelines
- Build your perfect CV with a downloadable CV template
- Learn top CV tips
- Establish relevant work history and highlighting managerial experience to include on your CV
- Understand common CV mistakes and how to avoid them
- Learn how to tailor and build a stand out CV
Demonstrate the best of you
To stand out from the crowd in today's competitive market, hone in on your skills and key achievements that are relevant to the role you are applying for. We speak to our Robert Walters management teams who offer advice on how to optimise your CV and what is required both at senior/management level and for those early on in your career.
Senior level
CV advice and requirements
With Hywel Davies, Associate Director
Robert Walters Indonesia
Top tips:
- Don't include everything, at senior level focus on the more pertinent information relevant for the role
- Focus on quantitative results and key accomplishments
- Make your CV skills focused
- Use examples of strategic decision-making
- Include professional memberships
Early in career CV advice and requirements
With Michelle Tanjung, Manager
Robert Walters Indonesia
Top tips:
- Use a template to ensure consistent fonts and formatting
- Use keywords from the job requirement
- Always do a final check for spelling and grammar
- Keep it simple
Build your perfect CV in minutes
Build the perfect CV in minutes with our expert advice and support on how to structure your CV, what information to include and to exclude and how to ensure you get your CV noticed.
The recent pandemic has meant competition for jobs continues to intensify, with record applications received per advert.
This means, taking that extra time and effort to tailor job applications is important. Sure, you may tick all the right boxes in terms of qualifications, you may have a compelling track record to talk about, and you may even have a winning personality too! But chances are, so will several other candidates.
Watch our CV animation for tips on how to get your CV noticed.
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Discussing employment gaps in your CV
It's not uncommon to have employment gaps in your CV, whether they're due to travel, illness or study. Here we look at how to discuss these gaps in an interview.
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Seven ways to stand out from the crowd
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6 common cv mistakes
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How to revamp your CV
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End of year career checklist steps
As the year draws to an end it can be a great time to document your professional achievements and start thinking about your career plans for next year.
