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A CV or Resumé is a document intended to give a brief but full account of your life to date in relation to your educational background, work experience, achievements, abilities and interests.

Brief -    Maximum 2 A4 Pages. Simple statements, no long explanations.

Full -    Include a reference to everything which is relevant and helpful to building up a full picture of you. You must have done your preparation in order to do this!
 
 

This factsheet describes how to make a good first impression and suggests what is accepted as good practice, but there are no absolute rules. Use you imagination when compiling your CV - your CV must reflect you - it should be as individual and unique as you are!   Whatever job you apply for and whatever company you approach, your CV and letter of application should be tailored for that company’s particular requirement - research is required - be prepared!

Skills Analysis

Analysing your skills is the best way to acquire an inventory of skills, abilities and aptitudes. This is an essential process and should be completed before you attempt preparing a CV or completing an application form.

Content

An effective CV will contain all or most of the following information - not necessarily in this order.

(a) Personal Details

Name

Address (Home and term if appropriate)

Telephone Number

Date of birth, gender and marital status need not be listed.

(Note: only offer information that may be to your advantage!)

(b) Education and Qualifications

Third Level      Dates, university attended, courses undertaken, subjects studied each year, and known results. Do mention any prizes, distinctions, academic honours, projects, dissertations, relevant training and work placement.

Secondary       Dates, school attended, level reached, final results.

CV’s for technical posts and all jobs which are closely course-related should show detailed information on coursework. Give exact information on equipment used and the systems and methods with which you are familiar. Employers will also be very interested to know details of your final year project or dissertation and/or work placement.

(c) Work Experience/Employment History

For each job (voluntary as well as paid) give: dates of work experience, name of employer, job title and experience gained. Reverse chronological order usually looks best - the same as that used for educational qualifications. Use action verbs to describe how you did the job e.g. planned, developed, designed, analysed, supervised, etc. Use the past tense and be concise and comprehensive.

(d) Interests and Activities

List interests, hobbies, membership of clubs/societies, professional associations, or voluntary organisations, and positions of responsibility held. Refrain from listing political, religious and potentially controversial groups, because they don't belong on a CV.

(e) Additional Information

Skills acquired - ability with foreign languages, computing familiarity, systems and languages known, keyboard and typing skills. Training courses outside of college.

(f) Referees

At least one academic, one non-academic. As a matter of courtesy you should keep referees informed of the positions you have applied for. Give each referee a copy of your C.V. so that he/she is aware of your full academic record, interests and work experience. Never put forward a person as a referee if you have not obtained their permission.

(g) Sign and Date each C.V.

Visual Impact - Layout is Critical

A C.V. should always be word processed on good quality white paper.

A C.V. should be easy to read, it should present the important facts about you both clearly and concisely. Research tells us that an item of advertising material has about a second and a half in which to attract the reader’s attention. Try the arms length test - hold your CV at arm’s length and see what kind of an impression it makes.

Place the most relevant information first because CV’s are often not read from beginning to end.
Make good use of spacing, margins, indentations, capitalisation and underlining, be consistent with your use of these.

Use bold type or iitalics  to emphasise words and subject headings (do not over do it!).

Make sure that the C.V. is letter-perfect.  Errors, typing mistakes, stains, unexplained abbreviations, technical jargon or buzz-words are not acceptable. Have your final draft critiqued or proof-read by someone in a position of responsibility.

Remember, your CV is your marketing tool. Your aim is to entice the employer to interview you. Think carefully about the format you choose and make it appropriate to the different positions you apply for.

Love at first sight is only possible to those with very accurate intuition. This happens for this type of encounter is so unique and special that it demands good aiming.

The body carries a memory of everything we have lived, all our history. The way we dress, our posture, our movements, smells, looks, and all of this reveals who we are. But you must keep your eyes open to see and recognize who is standing right in front of you.

The problem usually is that you do not have a good body language reading, non verbal communication. You get stuck to words and can´t decipher the whole universe the other is presenting to you without words.

So, before anything, for you to increase your chances to meet love at first sight, it is convenient to develop the capacity to perceive people very well.

This sixth sense develops in the same proportion in which you get in touch with yourself, when you have emotional and body spontaneity. Besides, the better you deal with relationships, the more capable you are of feeling, the more sensitive you will be to capture sentiments and history in others.

Then it actually becomes viable to find your love, even in the middle of a crowd. If you want true love, learn to upstream insensitivity, living your life more authentically and consciously. Cultivate our sensitivity; keep your "antennas" prepared to synchronize with someone who is in the same channel you are.

Your life trajectory gives you certain experience, you acquire certain tastes, you develop personal and professionally. In what we call love at first sight, you face yourself with someone converging in the same direction you are going. It is a kind of miracle, the magic of such a rare encounter.

All you have to know now, is if the other feels the same about you. And if you are lucky enough to be corresponded in what you´re feeling, congratulations, you deserve it! But be careful: take care of this relationship, don´t waste the opportunity!