so, you need to write a curriculum vitae (CV)?

For whatever reason, you’re looking for a new job. You know that you’ve got to write a CV, or at least update one that you produced a while ago, and you’re not sure where to start? Well, this website and the CV guides that you can download from it will help you do just that. Whether you're a school leaver, a graduate, someone who wants to change their career, a parent returning to work after maternity or paternity leave, someone who has recently been made redundant or someone who has been unemployed for a while, then this site is for you… in essence, we’re here to help you get to work.

sound advice that actually works

All of the advice and suggestions that are included in our CV Guides are based on real recruitment decisions and on our extensive experiences of working with:

• HR professionals
• Learning and development managers
• Talent development professionals
• Graduate recruiters

making sure that your potential employer actually reads your CV

Our experience shows us that an employer is more likely to reject your CV if:

• the skills and/or examples that the applicant has provided are not relevant and/or appropriate to the role that they’re applying for
• it doesn’t sell the applicant or provide a true reflection of their character and/or their personality
• it doesn’t demonstrate that the applicant has got all of the necessary skills, personal qualities and experience needed for the role that they’re applying for
• the applicant hasn’t provided all of the information that their potential employer has asked for
• the applicant has wasted precious ‘selling space’ by not planning the layout of their CV properly
• the physical look and feel of the CV is poor
• it contains too much waffle and not enough relevant detail
• the text doesn’t contain enough factual evidence to support the applicant’s achievements and examples
• the text contains grammar and punctuation errors
• the text contains spelling mistakes.

Our CV guides are full of practical advice that explains how to avoid making these mistakes when you write your CV. Our guides also contain a number of easy-to-use frameworks that will help you to capture all of the information that you need in order to create a great CV.