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Edwin Akpan Asks, “Is CV format Really Important in CV Writing?”
I know. I know. You are wondering on earth who Edwin Akpan is and what audacity he has got to ask whether CV format is really important in CV writing.
Relax. I’m not here to make noise about myself. But if you may know, I am a professional copywriter and I do my writings based on sound and basic principles. I am compelled to ask the above question because of what I have discovered.
I discover that jobseekers and professional CV writers worry about CV formats to use – functional CV format or chronological CV format or even both?
See why they get confused? They don’t even know which format to use in a given situation.
Some experts have advised jobseekers and CV writers on which CV format to use in a given situation, but I have got the nerve to say that they don’t really matter.
Yep! They are immaterial. Employers don’t care about CV formats. They are humans like you and I, meaning that they decide to read CVs based on emotion, then they can look for different kinds of logic to justify their reading and settling for a particular CV. Catch my drift? So where does CV formats come in here?
Listen, when you want to write CVs, don’t bother your head on whether to use functional or chronological CV format. You may end up more confused. If you really want to get confused just try looking up the definitions of these words.
The first thing to do before writing a CV is to understand your audience.
* Who is going to read your CV?
* What are their needs and wants?
* What are their concerns?
* What solutions do they need?
* Why do they want to hire new employees?
Then address these questions in your CV starting from the most important.
That is the secret of CVs that generate endless interviews. You want to capitalize on that immediately.
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