Do you have any good tips for a Resume or CV?

I used to read resume's as part of my job in a personnel office. The things that immediately turned me off were messiness, misspellings, lack of organization, multiple pages, and a lot of boasting. All an employer wants to see is a 1-page organized account of your qualifications for the job. Start with an objective. Briefly list all education and jobs history. End with 3 references that include addresses and phone #s. If you manage to catch the employers based solely on that amount of information, then you'll get an interview with someone who'll go more in depth. Believe me, when I was faced with like a pile of 300 resumes to review, I was grateful for the ones that came right to the point.

Firstly, good luck. In my last job, I was responsible for hiring so from an employers point of view. Keep your CV factual and as short as possible without cutting corners. Add a covering letter that sells you. Why you would like the job, and what you would bring to the job and the work place. Make the covering letter personal to that company, show that you have looked at least at some of the back ground of the company and that you are not just sending out 100's of CV's. If you get to an interview and have references take the originals with you for them to see but have copies that you can leave behind. This saves them time photocopying & saves you any risk of them getting lost. Take care my friend, all the best

My tips for writing a good CV are:1 Be honest 2 Be concise 3 Make it relevant My CV basically has my personal details at the top, name/d.o.b/address/phone/email, then it's got where I went to senior school and which exams I passed when I was there, because of my age, I'm not expected to put the grades I got, I think it's only school leavers that are meant to do that. After that, I put my college and what exams I passed there, but I also put which courses I took because not all courses had exams for them. Then, I put my work experience, I fill in gaps with 'caring for family' because that's what I was doing when I wasn't in work. What I put next is my hobbies and interests, to be honest that doesn't take up much space because I haven't got many. Then I put the 'about me' bit, in that bit I put something like, 'I'm honest, hardworking, reliable, healthy (therefore rarely have any time off work), flexible' etc., that type of thing anyway. Oh and if you can, it's always a good idea to handwrite a cover letter, especially if you've got good handwriting, because some employers prefer the personal touch, I was more inclined to consider someone for a position if they'd made the effort to put a polite letter with their CV, even it just said 'I'm interested in the position of ""'. Hope that's helpful.:)

I had to do a course after I was made redundant on how to do a resume, we were told to make it short as these days they read through so many most never go past the second page, so sell yourself on the first page, and a little thing we were told was not to use staples :(....goodluck with your resume....