Five Things That Mustn’t Be Wrong With Your Cv.

Drawing up a CV is no joking matter; especially when your determination is geared towards producing one that appropriately reflects both your true personality, your full qualifications and every piece of information that your potential employer would need. While this is one important part of the job-hunting process, it is unfortunate that this part is almost always grossly left at the mercy of uncertainty.  Not much above three out of every 10 graduates take their time to draw up a really good CV- the reasons may not be farfetched. Below are a few things that mustn’t be wrong with your CV.

1. 1.     Not your kind of thing? Give it to professionals. People from the 21^st century are generally impatient. We are many a times too busy with other (insignificant) things to sit down and draw up a good CV. If drawing up a good CV is not your kind of thing, there are professionals who can help you draw up an interesting one at minimal cost— it is better to spend some little coins paying a professional than remaining unemployed for no just reason simply because your CV keeps selling you short of potential employers’ expectations.

1. 2.     So boring we’re all sleeping off. Some CVs can be so boring you’d almost sleep off going through them. The owner may be college educated quite alright and perhaps brilliant but his CV may contain nothing particularly interesting. It is worthy of not at this juncture that a CV is not always the reflection of the individual whose name appears in it.  Truth be told, when job openings are announced, CVs begin pouring in in droves. Many times what the employer is looking out for as he pores through piles and piles of CVs is something to distinguish the individual from every other and this feature must never be lacking in the CV of any 21^st century job seeker.

1. 3.     Typos. One wonderful feature of word-processing applications is the ability to detect typographical errors and sometimes grammatical errors. You are likely to have a hard time convincing a potential employer that you are best suited for the job if your CV which is your first solicitor has done a very good job of telling him how that you are so careless a fellow that your CV looks like a typing assignment for a fresh Microsoft Office Word student. Some others won’t go beyond the page in which they saw a typo. If by any chance you regard that CV to be the proverbial leg you are putting in the potential employer’s door, then you can’t afford to have typos all over it.

1. 4.     You borrowed it and we know it. We always have this friend or colleague who already has his CV prepared and so, we tend to approach them get a copy, change a few things and Boom a new CV is born. While that in itself is no problem at all, chances are that that CV was originally collected from a friend, who also collected from a friend too, such that in the end, a tenth part of the CV a particular potential employee gets, would be replicas of the very same thing and this is where there is a problem because not much people want to employ that kind of dude.

1. 5.     Flaunting the all-weather CV. Some CVs cannot help but remind of the proverbial jack of all trade who at best is the master of none. Yes we all have that CV but it is your responsibility to always edit it to suit the job you are applying for, at every point in time, bearing in mind that the employer does not hire you because you are good at what you do but just like the foundational principles of basic supply and demand, he hires you simply because you are good at what he wants you to do for him.

Ifeanyi J. Igbokwe is a peak performance expert, motivational speaker, consultant and an action coach with special interest with personal and corporate growth and effectiveness.