A practical workbook offering a step-by-step approach to compiling a good CV. It contains examples and illustrations and a boxed space for readers to enter the relevant details relating to their own experience. The book guides rather than instructs and covers the layout, style and design of a CV. A section on covering letters looks at techniques for assessing what the employer wants, and matching skills and knowledge to the employers' needs as well as content and style. There is a section dealing with transferring information from a CV to an application form.