Home > CV Resume Writing Tips >How To Write My First CVHow to write my first CV- One that gets me interviews and ultimately my first JOB! I presume if you have found this page you are considerably less hardened by experience than the writer. Alternately you've never needed a CV before, and suddenly you do. Either way the CV writing process is the same. The Curriculum Vitae / CV is a full out marketing tool, along side your cover letters. They are created to make sure you get the interview. So like all other good marketing you need to know your target market, and you need to know your product (you), in order to give them the emotional and logical reasons the human brain needs to take any form of risk (investing time to interview is a risk, making an offer of employment is a big risk). Its really very easy to get a CV written these days, most wordprocessing applications offer good free templates, so all you have to do is add your words, and off you go. Tradition requires that you enter basic facts about yourself:-
Now consider the format should be easy on the readers eye black text, on white background, no fancy formatting, unless you are some form of artist or graphics expert and feel it is expected. So fill in your details into any of the standard templates and you'll have a nice CV... But so does EVERYONE ELSE! The challenge is not about writing a nice or even a good CV, its how do I write an OUTSTANDING CV? If you have exemplorary academics that maybe enough, but what if you did not excel at school, how can you jump to the front of the cue? The answer lies in understanding what your reader wants. And if you boil it all down; organisations are only looking for employees to help them make money or save money. Simplistic view, but one never to loose sight of. So the reader of your CV will be thinking how is this person going to, or potentially going to help us make or save money as they read your CV. Great academics is ONLY an indicator of potential, so don't loose heart if you have a poor educational record, and don't be complacent if you do. So to write an oustanding CV you need to get into the mind of your target reader, realise that making a decision to interview you is a small risk and hire you a much larger risk. Risk is counterbalanced and ultimately defeated by PROOF, if you can prove your skills and or potential, employers will interview and hire you. Proof when you have no or little experience is really hard to provide, and why in the absence of any other proof educational performance reigns supreme. But when it comes to early career hiring, manager are looking for potential to make and save them money, and this opens up a whole new bag of desirable skills employers look for. You will possess many of these skills or attributes, and your challenge now becomes spotting them and cultivating them into powerful marketing messages. At this point I am going to suggest you read what do employers really want, an article on our sister site that breaks this down into more detail, and offers a free interviewing guide into the bargain. Hopefully with some ideas and inspiration you now have to put your strongest marketing message into your CV. How to write my first CV - the BIG ONE. Your most powerful marketing message MUST go at the very TOP of your CV, just under your name. It really should go above your name, but that would be poor CV etiquette. Your CV must make an immediate impression with your targeted reader, hold their attention, and provide enough of what THEY want for them to invest their time in meeting or speaking with you. This CV magic bullet will be wrapped in either a CV objective statement, summary statement, skills summary, profile summary, achievements statement or even a combo of two of these CV format options. WITHOUT a doubt the CV OBJECTIVE statement is the most powerful. But can be the hardest to write, and is catastrophic if you get it wrong! A CV objective statement gets it power when executed correctly from marrying what your READER wants most with what YOU want most. This is heaven for the reader and immediate invite to interview for you. To find out how to write a curriculum vitae resume objective statement go here. A little less challenging the CV resume summary statement is also a good option. Finally you will need a selling curriculum vitae cover letter in your career boosting armoury grab yours here. If you need them get free curriculum vitae template / free resume template here. The links above give you everything you are going to need to fill your diary with interviews, provided you take ACTION! Next our thoughts turn to using the STAR method to answer those tough interview questions you know are coming… GOOD LUCK!
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