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This sample CV is for the candidates who have good work experience but lesser qualification then the one expected for the position. It focuses on your skills and achievements during your last jobs rather than your qualification.

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Name:
Address:
Contact No.:
E-mail:

Career Summary

• Develop it as a short paragraph of approximately 50-60 words.
• Write about your career aspirations and what you have to offer to the market.
• Your career summary should cover your skills, attitude, knowledge and work experience.
• Write your career summary in third person singular. Draft and re-draft it.
• Your career summary should be supported with the CV content.
• Write your career summary in such a way that the interviewer should be able to get a gist of your career in 30 seconds and shortlists you for the interview.  

Key Skills

• Develop this section in the bulleted format, to make your CV user friendly.
• Write about the key skills you have gained during your last employments. Focus on the skills relevant to the position you are apply to.
• Mention some figures which can impress the selectors and they shortlist your CV for an interview.
• Any special out of work activity can also find a place in this section of CV. This activity demonstrates a facet of your personality.

Achievements

• Write this section also in a bulleted format. It makes your CV user friendly.
• The achievements should be listed in the rank of priority.
• Try to relate your achievements with some figures
• The achievements section of your CV aims at telling the prospective employer, “This is what I did for my last employer, I can do it for you also”

Interests

• This is a good place in CV to write about your interests out of work.
• Write them in bullets.
• They throw a light on the different facets of your personality

Work Experience

• Write this section of your CV also in bullets 
• Designation, company name followed by duration for example: 
  Marketing Manager                            April 2000 to Oct 2001 
  XYZ company
• Job responsibilities below the position details. They can be mentioned as bullets or as interesting prose.
  

Educational Qualification

• Write this section of your CV also in bullets
• If your qualification required for this role is lesser than what is actually expected but you have a good work experience and knowledge about your area of work, do not focus your CV on the qualifications. 

Personal Details

Date of Birth
Languages Known
Marital status

Structure of a good CV

The basic purpose of a CV is to communicate your profile to the recruiter in the shortest possible time, in an interesting way.

Most of the times, the general structure of the CV provided here would do the job. However, no structure about a CV can be carved in stone. It is mainly the creativity of the candidate of the candidate that plays the most important role. At the end, the candidate should be comfortable with his CV as he is one who has to face the interview.

So, if you want to experiment with your CV based on some differences in your profile, you are welcome to do it.

Let’s see what the general structure of a CV can be like:

• Name – Provide the name which appears in your certificates. You don’t need to provide your nick name.
• Contact Details – Your postal address, phone number and e-mail address.
• Career Statement - A 2-3 line statement of your skills, attitude, knowledge and experience & how would it help the prospective employer.
• Career Summary - 7-8 bullets points which convey the gist of your candidature in 30 seconds and make the recruiter interested to read your complete CV.
• Work experience and achievements (In reverse chronological order) - Details about your past employments focussing on your achievements in those roles rather than just making it a list of your responsibilities. Add some figures to make the facts more interesting.
• Education qualifications (In reverse chronological order) - If you have learnt your job through the university of hard knocks of life, you can omit this section altogether.
• Other achievements - Achievements not related to past jobs but worth mentioning can be listed here.
• Hobbies - Hobbies convey a facet of your personality. So, give them a place in your CV but mind you, don’t write the hobbies just for the sake of writing. The person sitting on the other side of the table might share the same hobbies and get into a discussion about them.
• Language proficiency - Especially helpful if you have to deal with regional people or international market.

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