How to write a CV

Vaishnavi
2 min readJun 5, 2021

Understanding the importance of CV

A fresher resume is necessary for those who have recently graduated and are about to enter the workplace for the first time. By highlighting your skills, strengths, experience, education, languages, they consider if your skills can make you the right fit for the job role.

10 Steps for writing CV

1. A resume should be one page.

2. Understand the job role.

Make a list of important keywords and phrases the company included in the job description and use these to highlight your skills.

3. Mention your contact details with social media links.

Put your name, address, email, phone number and professional social media profiles in the top section of the resume.

4. Write an objective and aim.

It should state who you are, what is your objective, what are your goals and any achievements and awards you won.

5. List down your soft, hard and technical skills.

Review which skills can help you to grab that job opportunity and mention only those. For example,you can mention your communication, interpersonal, management, coding and different problem solving skills.If you are good at non-technical skills, planning, writing, organizing then mention these skills.

6. Provide educational details.

Provide your details about SSC, HSC and Graduation details with aggregate and year of passing and any certification licenses if you have.

7. Write your work experience details.

Even you don’t have much experience, you can mention any projects done on your own, in team or in your academic years. If you interned with any company or worked part-time then mention that with company name and duration.

8. Mention hobbies and outside interests.

Mention your hobbies and interests in a positive way like travelling, learning, reading and love to meeting new people and other hobbies that you have.

9. Highlight languages.

You can mention your fluency in any language like English, Marathi, Hindi etc. because multicultural skills are in good demand.

10. Read it again and edit.

Read it twice for any errors, spelling mistakes, grammatical mistakes to make sure and again go through it.

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Vaishnavi

Software Engineer, Web developer, Full time learner, blogger