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Perhaps the employer has asked for a CV or perhaps you need to fill in an application form. You are a student, or a fresh graduate with not too much serious experience and you are not quite sure how to show your potential employer that you're brilliant. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is what you need. It teaches you to write brilliant, effective, impact-making CVs. The book answers several very important questions: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat skills are almost all employers looking for?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow do you present yourself professionally?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow can you extract valuable information from the little work experience you've got?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow do you present your work experience so that it looks impressive?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat should you do if you've never had a paid job?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat is more important - the duties or the achievements?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow do you write covering letters and application forms that will get you interviews?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is more, this book gives you advice on how to get work experience and what counts as work experience. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExtract from the book (published with the author's permission)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe purpose of your CV is to get you an interview, not a job. This means that you need to impress your potential employers and make them interested.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease also remember that you will need to write a CV in response to a job advertisement. These usually contain two documents: the job description with a list of tasks and the person specification with a list of skills and qualities that an ideal candidate for that job should have. The contents of your CV will depend on the contents of these two documents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, here are the main elements that CVs are made of, from the top to the bottom: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Your Name and Surname at the top, in a larger font. DO NOT write 'Curriculum Vitae' or 'CV'. Your potential employer knows that they are reading a CV. There is no need to tell them that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Your contact details: your address and postcode, telephone number and email address.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Your Personal Profile (optional). I will write more about it in \u003cb\u003eChapter 5: Personal Profile\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Education. Here is your first chance to shine and stand out. See more in \u003cb\u003eChapter 6: Education and How to Talk about It\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Skills. In a skills-based CV, the Skills section precedes the Work Experience section and is very large. In an experience-based CV, the Skills section is much smaller: it only contains 'hard skills' such as languages, numeracy and IT and comes after the Work Experience section.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are many skills that you can present in your CV. 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