A good curriculum should demonstrate your potential work skills, list your academic knowledge, show employment history with detail of duties within each role and also include your contact details so that employers can get in touch with you.
The curriculum vitae is what employers will see before they offer an interview and most cv's are just quite confusing and go on for far too long. It is best to keep the cv within two pages and really define what your duties were within each role for example if your role including sage accounting or minute taking, include this on your cv.
I have included below what a bad cv looks like, Joe maybe is not very good at writing cv's but from the cv he has alot of experience in various roles with just adding more details to his roles we will be able to see what kind of job he would be suited for. Joe has always listed his computer skills at the bottom which it might be a good idea to leave this out and perhaps just replace this with a couple of sentences that he has knowledge of computers. Employers do not want to know that Joe likes to play games that is irrelevant information so it is best to leave this out.
Take a look at the good cv from Jane Doe to see how it is best to really utilize your skills.
CV
Name: Joe Bloggs
Date of Birth: 02/05/1975
Email: flapper@yahoo.co.uk
Education:
1979 - 1982 Playschool
1982 - 1988 Primary School
1988 - 1992 Secondary School
1994 - 1997 University of Lincoln
Work Experience:
1998: Worked as a waiter in a restaurant where I served for people who came there to eat.
1997: Worked in a bar serving drinks for people
1990: Worked on a farm with animals
2000: Handing out leaflets in the streets to give to people
1996: Worked in fast food company warming up burgers and fries
1999: Worked in a bingo hall calling out the numbers (got promoted to Assistant Manager)
1995: Worked in a swimming pool cleaning toilets and changing room
Computer skills:
Playstation: Expert use in FIFA 2000
Nintendo64: Expert use in Super Mario Brothers
Words: Typed CV on it
E-mail: Knowledge of Hotmail and Yahoo
Hobbies:
Drinking, clubbing and Internet Chat rooms.
