eretn frA Curriculum Vitae (CV) is a summary of one's experiences, professional history, education, skills, qualification and personal interest. Your CV should be detail, compromising the aspects that you want your potential recruiter to know. Nowadays, people start to acknowledge the importance of CV. Its importance includes: 1. To attract your qualities and to persuade the employer to invite you for an interview (first impression). 2. It acts as your personal branding tool. 3. To inform the employer about your personal details, including but not limited to education, work experiences, skills and interests. By having a good CV, you should aim to get an interview of the specific job you have applied.However, first and foremost, it is important for us to know what should be included in a CV: 1. Personal details (Your name, phone, email, LinkedIn profile, current address and date of birth). 2. Personal profile (It should not exceed one paragraph, of which you describe yourself, your degree, years of work experiences and your strongest provable traits). 3. Educational background (Put your latest education and do not forget to put your GPA). 4. Work experiences (Here, put your experiences, newest to latest. Do not forget to put your position, company name and the start and end date. It is also important for you to describe the jobs you did and your achievements, if any). 5. Organizational experiences (It is important, especially if you do not have any working experiences! Put your top 3 — 5 experiences and write in in the order of newest to latest one. It would be even better if you put the organizational experiences that are related to the job you are applying). 6. Achievements (If you have any achievements related to the job that you apply, put it so the recruiters know). 7. Certifications / Training / Portfolio (In this segment, you can tell the recruiter what skills you have, through measurable certifications or those that you obtain through trainings).So, when you have all of that information ready, make sure you follow these tips to avoid the common mistakes people make in making CVs: 1. Be consistent with the language that you use. Do not mix languages in your CV, it will cause confusion. 2. Make sure it is readable. Choose a good font and put it ina size that is comfortable to be read. Give some spacing in the CV, do not make it too tight or compact. 3. Being creative is one thing, but your CV still needs to be aesthetically pleasing. Use a color combination that looks good together, and make sure your template is effective enough to contain all of your information. 4. Show yourself but make it formal. The photo that you put should not the one which is heavily filtered or have a flashy background—do not use your informal vacation picture for your CV. 5. Typos are annoying. Your CV should be well written, with no wrong information and mistypes.Now that you know how to write a good CV, here is several do's and don'ts when you are writing your CV. Dos: 1. Place the most important information up-front. 2. We know you have a lot of experiences and achievements but put the top and most relevant 3 — 5 experiences and achievement. Your CV should be concise! 3. In accordance to the previous point, make your CV the maximum 2 pages. However, if it is possible, make it only one page! 4. Quotes are nice but writing it in a CV might not be the best option—unless you are applying for a role in content writing. 5. A CV is very adjustable: make sure that your CV fits to the job you are applying! Don'ts: 1. Include salary information and expectations. 2. Use small fonts in order to fit all of your experiences and achievements. What is the point of having 100 experiences, but it is not readable? 3. Measuring your skills with dots or graph—it does look nice, but it might not be accurate. Put a concrete proof such as certificate or proof of trainings to assure others that you obtain that skills! All in all, writing your CV might seem difficult, but once you did it right, it might help you to open doors of opportunities you might not realize it could be opened!% StudentsCatalyst ee eras Content by Aloysius Efraim & StudentsCatalyst eeu wien cian Pere AUC u ECE @ wuwstudentscotalystorg G) @StudentsCotalyst J Oe Reet eas