Nowadays, when looking for a job, you cannot do without well-written curriculum vitae. However, forget you literary ambitions. Nowadays, employers prefer so-called structured resumes.

What is it?

A resume (Curriculum Vitae, CV) informs on you. It provides information on your education, your work experience, and on your other skills and abilities. Your resume gives your potential employer a possibility to create a clear picture of who you are.

Why should I write it?

A main objective of a resume is to establish an interest both on the side of a recruitment agency, and mainly on the side of an employer. It should contain such information, which prove that you are the best individual for the respective position.

How should I write CV?

It is not as difficult as it may seem. A proper resume should be clear, brief, true (any false information is anyway uncovered during a personal interview), and grammatically correct. Individual pieces of information are composed in structured points.

And now the principal issue – rules for composing a resume:

• State your whole name and address (including a ZIP code and temporary address). Do not forget to include your telephone number and your email address.
• It is common to state your date of birth, your citizenship, and your marital status. This information is, however, not mandatory. If you do not wish so, do not provide it.
• Your work experience information is to be stated from the most recent to the oldest. Always provide also your employer’s name and describe your job description in brief.
• Present your achieved education (leave out an elementary school, it is a common sense), and again, observe the most recent to the oldest order.
• For graduates without any professional experience, it is expected that they would present they voluntary work, internships, or their long-term trainee-ships.
• Definitely state courses you completed. The same applies for trainings. However, do not forget that everything you present should refer somehow to you future job.
• Do not be afraid to present software programs, which you are familiar with, and at what level.
• Definitely state your language skills. Be sensible, do not overestimate or underestimate your skills.
• At the end, briefly describe your interests.

Finally, few tips for sending a resume by electronic mail:

Nowadays, sending a resume by electronic mail is more and more common. That is why we include few good tips, which you may find useful.

• Be mindful of the address, from which you reply to a recruitment agency advertisement or potential employer advertisement. It will definitely not help to reply from your current work’s address. It is also not funny, nor original, to send your resume from emails: littlejohn@yahoo.com or the-best-one@hotmail.com, etc. Use your creative elsewhere.
• It is quite obvious that if you look for a job, you send your resumes to several addresses. Still, it is worth it to send the resumes individually to the respective recruitment agencies‘ or potential employers‘ addresses. Good for you that you are familiar with a carbon copy function, however, conceal this skill in this particular case.
• State the position you reply to in the message subject.
• Describe why you send the message to the respective person in the message body, and do not forget to include your contact details (despite the fact you have already included it in the resume).
• Attach the resume itself as an attachment to the respective email. Save it under you name or describe it as a resume (for example smith.doc, or smith_cv.doc)
• And the last tip – mind the size of the file and mind the text editor, in which you create the resume. The resume should be in the most common formats - .doc, .rtf, or .pdf.

We appreciate that you look for a job with us. That is why we would like to offer you a standardized European resume template.