Basic things that should be included in your CV

Posted by Chidinma on Thursday December 25, 2014 at 22:26:17:

If you are applying for a job in any firm or organisation, you are required to submit your Curriculum Vita (CV). Your C.V contains all the basic things about you and should be able to give your would be employers vital information they need to know about you. This article will contain four basic things that must be included in your C.V.

1. Contact Information: some people in their bid to sell themselves to their would be employees includes every other important information in their C.V and forget to include a clear contact information; if there is not contact information on your C.V, you have already missed the job, since there will be no possible way to contact you if you are chosen for the job.

2. Education: your C.V should contain information on all educational achievements; fro high school to college degree and you should include a photocopied attachment of each certificate you acquired as evidence that you really attended the said schools.

3. Other Achievement: this is the stage where you have to sell yourself to your future employees. You have to mention every other awards and achievements in your field, including professional seminar certificates, and other honorary awards.

4. Experience: most employers prefer to employ people with experience to people who have just the certificate without experience. If you have worked for similar organisation before, include that in your C.V to become part of your experience and the total number of years you have worked in the career field generally.