“Pruning” old CV into a bright introduction

Want to enter a new stage of your career with new opportunities? Before applying for attractive positions, sit down and “reincarnate” your CV that has not been updated for several years.

New graduates are difficult to find information about their CV. Long-time workers struggle to get rid of unnecessary information. No matter how much you experience in your profession, accept that you are upgrading a marketing material about yourself, and it is not easy to sit down and finish your CV for an hour.

Be a recruiter glad to read your CV

Basically, your task is to make the Recruiter read the CV and come up with the thought: “this person can do what I need.” Not only that, it should be an excellent enough CV for acquaintances to also safely send to acquaintances. In a difficult market, it should be an introduction that makes you remember and recommend by others.

Optimal for each position
Old but classic rule: don't send the same CV for every job. Of course, you need a basic and Standard CV. But then, for each promised position, you need to adjust it accordingly. Carefully read the job description, position to read the keyword position, understand the most important factors about the responsibility of that job.

Find out your best version

People with long experience, in many different areas, will be more difficult to distill information for the CV opening sentence. In just 1-2 lines, you have to give a concise, concise and impressive presentation: who I am, why I qualify and fit for that position. It doesn't matter if the exact position you've taken before, this information must be consistent with what the current employer is looking for.

For example, technology executives with more than 25 years of outstanding OTT service delivery experience.

Don't hug
If you're transforming your industry, don't offer massive work experience that doesn't fit into your new position. It is recommended to set the most impressive achievement, in relation to the position immediately after the summary of yourself. It should be compelling enough for the recruiter to straighten the back of the chair and think, “I want to talk to this person for what they've done.”

Don't list career history on three pages. You can put together positions with similar work in one item, and state the most important tasks that you perform. But don't forget to state the position at the company that the reference did with you.

Consider the information included in the CV

Cut hard hands
What to do with each CV for each position is not to show off the experience in countless jobs experienced. That you have to draw the clearest picture of yourself, with the highest degree of suitability for each position being applied. Just like a bonsai craftsman, you have to prune the sumptuous twigs to clarify the shape and status of the bonsai.

That is, the right information must be filtered in accordance with each position being applied. There are positions where recruiters will appreciate a volunteer job you used to do, but with another position, part-time jobs 5 years ago impressed. Find out the “right” for each “bonsai tree” of your CV.

Talk about achievement instead of responsibility
Saying “I managed a team of 10 people “makes no sense compared to”I led the team to build the app 1 million downloads”. And blow into your CV the information that helps “personalize” yourself. A CV full of bullet points of time and location is easily flipped through. But if you say, ” the core member of the WFH co-workers support team during the pandemic,” the employer will have to stop for about 2 seconds to think about you.

Make CV easy to read
Do not choose fonts, font sizes, layouts superficially. Help the most nearsighted, aged and busy people get valuable information as soon as they flip through the CV. Let'S make the CV have gaps, breaks, instead of full text.

Look for looping and clipping words. Mark the beginning of the line, and leave no more than 3 sentences in a row. And it is best that the CV does not exceed 2 pages. A compact and impressive CV, is a quality CV.

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