Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Writing a Government Resume: Some Tips

By Patrick Stephens


Your government CV is an important document in your government job application and you should present yourself as a extremely appealing employee, while conveying all pertinent information evidently, and concisely.

Selection Advisory Committees will probably be facing hundreds of applications, depending on the placement and they do not have time to go through lengthy CVs, or spend time trying to find crucial and useful facts.

The purpose of your resume is to supply a reference for your promises against the selection criteria. Recruitment committees will cross check the claims you have presented in your selection criteria with the information you have supplied in your government resume, to evaluate the credibility of your claims. These two documents combined will earn you an interview so that you have the ability to impress the supervisor in the flesh.

Regardless of what some instructions may let you know, there's a right and incorrect method to write a government resume. Just ask any specialist recruiter and they will show you of several examples which they see each day of bad government cvs. Bad in written content, format, and presentation.

You should use a clear and easy to read font type, sized at least font size 12, and use highlighting, bullet points and lots of white space. This will make your resume easy to skim read and will highlight the most important parts of information.

Unless you are applying for a position in a creative industry, such as website design, graphic art or photography etc, stay away from graphics and fancy borders. While you may be trying to grab the reader's attention, it will make your resume more difficult to read and understand, and will therefore most likely have a negative impact.

Put the most relevant facts towards the top of your government resume. The selection board are more likely to keep in mind details that they are provided initially, so its positioning is crucial.

Avoid using "jargon" or feel that the person reading your government resume knows your industry. The same goes for acronyms. If you haven't described each acronym first, don't use it.




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