Are you starting to think about your career after leaving university? Check out our 8 top tips for preparing yourself to walk into a job after you graduate!
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A prospective employer can learn so much about you from the hobbies and interests part of your CV, so use it to sell yourself!
The person viewing your CV will not see everything you have to offer if your CV layout is not clear and well-structured.
How long should your CV be? What content should you include? Do you need a covering letter? These are all important CV questions.
Using these steps, you can tailor your CV to ensure that it has maximum appeal to every employer you send it to.
There are no hard and fast rules for writing graduate CVs, but the overall aim is to market yourself and your skills to an employer and convince them to call you for an interview or assessment centre.
Step 1: focus your message
Decide what your CV actually needs to say. How you focus your CV will depend on the graduate job and industry you are applying to and on what you want the recruiter to pay attention to.
Buzzwords make your CV meaningless – swap them for plain, factual statements to show you’re right for the job
To make your job search a little easier, specialist recruiter Randstad UK has created a practical how to write a CV video guide.
A convincing covering letter (or cover letter, as it’s more commonly known in the US) typically accompanies a CV for a graduate vacancy. It’s your opportunity to show recruiters your most relevant skills and demonstrate your motivation and enthusiasm for the job and the employer.
A covering letter shouldn’t be longer than one side of A4. Here's our four-part failsafe guide to using this limited space to sell your skills.
How to write a graduate cover letter in four steps
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