Curriculum Vitae (CV) Format Guide

Curriculum Vitae (CV) Format Guide

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CV Format Layout - How to Structure Your CV

First things first, we need to talk about your CV format in terms of layout. Here’s what sections you’d include in a professional CV: – Contact information. – Personal statement. – Work experience. – Educational history. – Skills. – Other optional sections, including languages, projects, volunteering experience, and more.

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CV Format Layout - How to Structure Your CV

#1. Contact Information The CV contact information formatting looks as follows: – Name – Professional job title – Email address – Phone number – LinkedIn profile – Location

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CV Format Layout - How to Structure Your CV

#2. Personal Statement Your personal statement is a short, 50-100 word pitch of your professional and educational career, and it goes right on top of your CV. The personal statement can be written in 2 ways: – As a CV Summary - Focused more on your work experience and achievements.

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CV Format Layout - How to Structure Your CV

– As a CV Objective - Focused on your aspirations, goals, skills, and educational background (instead of work experience or achievements). If you have any practical work experience, you’d go for a CV summary, as your experience sells you better as a candidate than your education or goals. You’d only pick a CV objective if you either don’t have any

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CV Format Layout - How to Structure Your CV

work experience or if you are switching industries or professions.

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CV Format Layout - How to Structure Your CV

#3. Work Experience Format your CV work experience section as follows: – Start with your most recent job, and work your way back. – For each work experience entry, start with the position title. – Under the title, list out the following: name of the company, dates worked. – Finally, mention 4-6 responsibilities or 

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CV Format Layout - How to Structure Your CV

achievements for each position. We recommend sticking to 3-4 of your last positions (and not your entire career history).

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CV Format Layout - How to Structure Your CV

#4. Educational History Format your educational history in the following order: – Degree name. – University name. – Study timeframe. – GPA (optional). – Courses taken (optional). – Honors (if relevant). We recommend only listing courses taken if you’re a recent graduate, or don’t have much experience in the field you’re 

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CV Format Layout - How to Structure Your CV

trying to get a job in. We’d also encourage you to avoid listing your GPA unless it’s actually something very impressive.

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CV Format Layout - How to Structure Your CV

#5. Skills Listing your skills on a CV is relatively straightforward - just create a section named “Skills,” and list them out.

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CV Format Layout - How to Structure Your CV

#6. Other Optional Sections The optional sections you can include on your resume include: – Awards & Honors – Projects – Certificates – Extracurricular Activities – Hobbies & Interests – Professional Organizations – Languages – Volunteering Experience – Teaching Experience If you’re making a functional 

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CV Format Layout - How to Structure Your CV

(or skill-based) CV, you’d also include a skill summary section, which we’ll cover in a bit.

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How to Format a CV

Here’s how you can format your CV in terms of font, margins, and layout: – Set one-inch margins on all four sides of your CV to maximize the white space between sections. – Go for 1 or 1.15 line spacing between text, and double line spacing after subheadings. – Pick one font for your entire resume, and stick with it. We recommend Ubuntu, Roboto, or Overpass.

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How to Format a CV

– Use 11-12 pt font size for normal text and 14-16 pt for section titles or headers. – Use all must-have CV sections, including contact information, personal statement, work experience, educational history, and skills. – Use bullet points to describe your responsibilities & achievements for all your roles, projects, or volunteering experiences.

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How to Format a CV

– Stick to the one-page CV limit, or 2/3 if you have a lot of work experience.

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