Your CV needs to highlight your achievements and experience to attract employers. It should include specifics about your main duties and responsibilities for each role to demonstrate what you can do for the position. Projects you have worked on are also important to include your responsibilities and accomplishments. The CV structure should begin with your employment experience listed chronologically with dates and explanations for any gaps. Next include your education and certifications, then languages to showcase relevant skills for the role and employer.
2. Am I Showing What I Can Really Do?
Making your CV stand out to employers
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Main Duties and Responsibilities
What interviewers really care about is whether you can do the job. You would be surprised at how
many CVs our consultants come across that give no indication as to what they did on a daily basis
at the previous jobs.
You must be specific, what exactly were your duties? What were the key details of your job that
your potential new employer will want to hear about?
Projects
Employees in the technology industry will be well accustomed to working on projects. Employers
are extremely keen to hear about your experiences. What projects did you work on? What were
your responsibilities and what were your achievements? This is the perfect chance to talk yourself
up!
Structure of Your CV
With regards to the layout of your CV, here is how we think you should set it out:
Employment Experience
This should go at the very top of your CV with your most recent job at the top. Include exact
dates and justify any gaps in a positive light. Your employment experience should follow a career
statement which consists of a brief paragraph outlining your skills and motivations for progress
in your career. This section will obviously involve what you have written for your main duties and
responsibilities.
Education & Certifications
Next you should list your academic qualifications as well as any relevant certifications you have
achieved
Languages
As we work with clients and companies all over Europe listing your linguistic capabilities could
push you to the top of the queue for a new job. For example, if you are looking to move to Belgium
and you can speak French and Dutch this gives you a wide scope of roles to choose from.