Improving Your CV, Chapter 24: Tailoring your CV to different jobs

Part of Course 1: Improving your CV · Chapter 24 of 29 · 9 min

About this chapter

Tailoring your CV to each job is more work, but it improves your chances. It isn't making things up; it's choosing which of your true experience to bring forward for a specific job spec.

Key points

• Read the job spec for priorities (an industry, a tool, teamwork) and adjust your summary and bullets to reflect them.
• Bring back relevant experience you dropped from the standard version, or add the missing keyword to the bullets where it truly applies.
• Duplicate your CV before editing, and keep dated folders named by job or company, so you build up a library of versions.
• Because your formatting is simple, you can copy the best bullets from earlier versions.
• Don't treat any version as the permanent gold master.

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