Monday 26 October 2009

The most effective Graduate CV

You may or may not know that on average an employer or recruitment consultant will only spend around 30 seconds looking at a CV. It sounds cruel I know, considering how long you can spend crafting and forming the perfectly tailored CV, but in reality this is not only all the time they need to make a decision on short-listing, but it's also normally all the time they have when wading through piles of applications. So, how can you make yourself count? In short (excuse the pun) - bullet-point. Bullet-pointing information really helps the reader pick out the important information. It's much more difficult to find relevant skills in a body of text that they have to read word for word so make it easy for them. This is not to say that everything should be bullet-pointed as some subjects like your interests and hobbies can come across better in sentences. Just make sure your skills and experience are laid out in this 'easy to digest' format.