Create a CV: The Basics

So I've been pretty busy for the last few weeks if you have noticed. Sorry about that. Too busy with raya, job hunting, researching for more investment and cost-saving information and finally, got sick later. :(

But all that has paid off, because in this next post, I will be talking about how to create a CV. This is for job hunters and freelancers around the world. I first learned this while I was in college and its important to know this to help everyone get a proper job and "sell" themselves towards their potential employers.

First what is a CV? Its an abbreviation of Curriculum Vitae. Its Latin for "Life Story". And by that everyone should know what exactly to put into your "Life Story" for employers to see. It describes who you are, what you did, what you can do and where you are in life. CV is also often referred to as a "Resume".

So what are the basic features to a CV? Follow these basic steps and you should be able to cover everything you need to know on making a better looking and complete CV. It is a must to follow these basic guidelines but not in order.

• Your Personal Information
• Your Work Experience
• Your Skills
• Your Education
• Your Personal Profile and Interests
• Your References

A brief explanation of each:

Your Personal Information is the basic information where your employer can contact you. This is best to be placed at the top most area of your CV and mostly as a Letterhead.

Your Work Experience is the chronological order of where you have previously worked as, your duties, responsibilities, and description of your past work. Usually you put the most recent first and work your way to the earlier job experiences.

Your Skills is where you list your abilities, the things you can do, your specialties and other extra talents you may hold. This will be proven useful by your employer to know that they have a highly capable employee who is able to not only fulfill their current job but may also help the company in a different field or industry.

Your Education is where you list your education history and background of yourself. Include your best education that you have acquired from any industry/institute/workshop, and you're set.

Your Personal Profile and Interests is where you describe what you can do, where you are at your current situation and as well as what would like to do now and in the future.

Lastly, Your Reference is where you have mentors, teachers, lecturers and previous employers to help support your next employment. Pros are that they give in a good word from their own experience working with you. Cons are that if you left the previous company or any referrer that you assigned to as Your Reference, on a bad note, you might be asking for trouble.

Now depending on the job application you are going to send, it merely depends on what the employer is asking for. If they are asking for Education first before Work Experience, that's when you do your CV in that order. If its skills before education, do it in that respective order as well. For every job, you need to keep updating and changing your CV accordingly. Otherwise, it's called CV spam (as what my buddies back in college likes to call it.)

So with the basics listed above, I'm sure that you are able to fill in the blanks and make a professional CV. If not, I'll be posting the next entry on "Advance CV".

Thanks for reading and best of luck on job hunting and freelancing. ;)

-Let the power of wealth be with you~