5 CV Writing Tips to Impress Your Professor

This article is going to give you five tips that you can use that will help you to wow your professor with your CV. Your professor may ask you to write a CV in order to give you a little CV writing experience and advice, which will help you get a job in the future. Specialists of resumeble.com prepared for you a list of CV Writing TIPs.

Taking notes and doing research

When writing your CV, always remember to ask your professor what information he/she wants you to add into your CV. Don’t be afraid not to take notes when asking questions as this will show your professor that you are determined to write a fantastic CV. Taking notes is another way of gaining as much research as you can in order to complete your CV.

Do your research in order to understand more about the job role. This may also present you with a few questions you can ask the interview later on down the line. This will make it easier for the employer to figure out if you are the right candidate for this job.

Make sure you get the correct information

While you are creating your CV, your professor will want to see that the information you have researched is correct and that you haven't just copy and pasted it onto your work. As odd as it sounds, your professor may run a Copyscape check on your CV to see if you copied and pasted elements you found online.

Formatting is everything

When you create a CV, either for your professor or an employer, he/she may only glance at your CV for a few seconds, so it is wise to make sure your CV is in a traditional style/format so it will be easy to speed read. Here are three typeface options you should use:

• Arial
• Times New Roman
• Calibri

Keep your font size to 11 or 12, unless you are creating headers, in which case you may go as large as 20.

Making your CV unique

You may be tempted to use a template of a CV you have already used in the past, but in some cases your professor/ employer will want you to create a CV that is unique and new. This will show you have put a lot of thought into what you think you will gain by working for them; plus, it will make a good first impression as the CV is the first thing they will look at before interviewing you.

Conclusion - Always remember to proofread your CV

Once you have completed your CV, always remember to proofread it visually (aka, line by line). Proofreading your work will help correct any grammar or spelling mistakes that you have gained while writing your CV. This will show your professor that you are checking every detail to make sure it is correct.

Taking the time to create a strong CV without any errors, will impress your professor the most. Proofreading visually/manually will help you get out of the habit of relying on spell checker. Remember that spell check doesn't pick up the correctly-spelled mistakes that you make, such as correctly-spelled typos.

For example if your professor is asking you to write a CV for an English teachers job role, then you know that he/she will be looking for any written mistakes within your CV. A top tip to also remember when proofreading is to always proofread your work after you have completed it and not while you are writing it. This will stop you wasting more time during the writing process, as you will write far slower if you try to proofread while writing.

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