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How to write a cv ( curriculum vitae ) for a job in English

Mohammed — Thu, 05 May 2011 19:31:48 +0000

I wrote a post before about Applying for a new job ? need a CV ? so learn how to write or build a prefect and effective cv and this post will be more professional than the last one. In this post we will discuss the different types of CV, but first we should know what is a C.V.? ( define the cv or resume ) what does Curriculum Vitae mean and its abbreviation, The Difference Between a CV and a Resume and much more, so let’s start this post again !

What is the difference between a curriculum vitae (CV) and a resume?

The main differences between them are the length, the content.

The resume consists of pages ” one or two ” about your skills, experience and education and it is succinct not as the CV ” more than 2 pages “.

BTW: the last point isn’t stable it change from country to country .. from place to another.

A Curriculum Vitae is summarized you background(s) such as teaching and research experience, publications, presentations, awards, honors, affiliations and other details, And it may used for applying for academic, education, scientific or research positions. It is also applicable when applying for fellowships or grants.

types of CVs :

chronological CV

Chronological CV: It is about the candidate’s experience, also it contains detail of education and qualifications, together with hobbies. It contain a brief personal statement at the front which sets out the key skills and strengths of the candidate. This is the most common type of CV.

How to structure a chronological CV

A chronological CV typically uses the following structure:

Personal details (i.e. name and contact details)

Personal profile or career objectives. This should not exceed 5 lines.

Employment in reverse chronological order. Under each employer, you should set out a number of bullet points which describe your key achievements. In order to be fully effective, you should ensure that you use power words.

Key qualifications

Professional memberships

Hobbies and personal interests

Advantages

Particularly useful for those applying within the same industry as it will demonstrate your career progression.

It is the favorite format for most employers, who simply want to get a feel for your career to date.

If you do not have many achievements across your career, taking a job by job approach will save you having a separate “Achievements” section (characteristic of Functional CVs) which may look tiny.

Disadvantages

If you have gaps in your employment which you would rather not discuss, a chronological CV will make them more obvious.

If you are changing career direction, a chronological CV will add little information to your new employer, who will be more concerned about the transferable skills that you are bringing rather than the detail of your experience in an unrelated sector.

Functional CV

Functional CV:places the emphasis on your skills and expertise rather than the chronology of you employment to date.

How to structure a chronological CV

A functional CV typically starts with a personal profile which highlights the achievements, skills and personal qualities that you possess. This is then followed by a succession of sections, each relating to a different skill or ability. These should be ordered in decreasing order of importance. Instead of focusing on any particular job, you should describe your experience in its globality. Since you are not focusing on any particular past employment, this means you can include any skills or experience gained in voluntary or unpaid work. Here are examples of functional headings that are commonly found.

Administration
Advertising
Communication
Consulting
Counselling
Customer service
Designing
Editing
Education
Electronics

Engineering
Human Resources
IT experience
Journalism
Law
Leadership
Management
Marketing
Organisation
Planning

Public Relations
Publishing
Research
Sales
Secretarial
Supervision
Training
Travel
Writing

Advantages

If you have changed jobs frequently, if your experience is a mish-mash of seemingly unrelated posts or if you have several career gaps, a functional CV will help place the emphasis on what you have to offer as a whole rather than on the chronology.
If you are changing industry, a functional CV will help the recruiter focus on your transferable skills.
If you are a more mature applicant, a functional CV will take the spotlight away from your age.

Disadvantages

If you do not have much work experience, you may struggle to highlight achievements in a separate section.
A functional CV will not enable you to highlight consistent career progression. If you wish to convey career progression, you should adopt a chronological format.

To conclude the CV, you should then a list of employers and employment dates, as well as a section on your qualification. The last section should focus on your personal details and hobbies/interests.

Combined CV

Combined CV: follows both the chronological and functional format, which makes the CV slightly longer than normal.

Advantages

Perfect format if you have a strong career progression with many achievements.
Enables you to sell your strengths as well as your experience

Disadvantages

Lengthier than a functional or chronological CV
Failing to get the attention with the right profile at the start of the CV may result in the whole CV remaining unread.
Not suitable for those with little experience or achievements.
Not suitable for those with employment gaps

New theme installed

Mohammed — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:54:36 +0000

i have installed a new theme on my blog and i hope you liked it .

this theme is dark something but looks nice , i like the way it show Tags and the posts review with pictures , and more

i hope you post your comments about it ” to add more on this theme “

thanks

Money Academy

Asus released small notebook asus eee pc t91

Mohammed — Tue, 05 May 2009 00:48:11 +0000

we all know Asus and know how much skills they have , so let’s know about this product from Asus it isn’t new but there is great technology inside this machine so let me tell you what is it .

i can’t say that this new notebook ( asus eee pc t91 ) which appeared in CES 2009 gallery ” conference ” in the first time is the first small one in the world , because there is several notebooks before this one small too ” maybe screen size is 5 inches ” but actually this one we can name it ” notebook ” not only a name but its features say that it is special one .

Eee PC T91 have 8.9-inch respective screen sizes plus Atom processors , it use Intel Atom Z520 as processors inside , you can imagine that this screen (1024x 600 ) is touch and it can move 180 degrees around itself , so it turn from normal notebook to the smallest computer PC you ever see.

they provided this notebook with Wireless Communication Technology ( Wi-Fi ), computer pen projector and memory card SSD 32 Gigabyte so it become Light not weight one .

this can be a review about asus eee pc t91 , this what i know about it , so if you know more about this notebook you can comment here .

some other features about another notebooks ( asus eee keyboard pc, gigabyte m1022 booktop, crunchpad, asus eee, asus p5q)

Enjoy netbook ( notebook ) reviews eee PC1000HE soon .

New Updates in Alexa and google page rank

Mohammed — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:16:03 +0000

i faced last week a new updates in Alexa and Google page rank , this was for good , actually i didn’t noticed the page rank change at the time it updated but i noticed it after 3-4 days from updates .For me Alexa update its system and design ( check them website ) and i noticed that they change the ranking daily , so you can check your traffic updates day by day without problems .

but i shocked when i saw my rank stopped in 500 k , because i break it and reached 475 k ( 475xxx ) but now my blog is 524,943 and sometimes become 511958 , but i think i will break it because the news i got from Google which say that money academy is pr 2 now , some pages got pr2 and the other is pr1 but i was planning to get pr3 or pr4 in this updates but i didn’t reach it i will work next days to make it high and high in traffic ranking and blog page rank .

some news say that Google update its ranking every 3 months ” 4 updates yearly ” but i think that Google will do the next update before this 3 months ends .

on Alexa new counter you will be able to check this :

Online Since :

Sites Linking In :

Avg. Time on Site : Min/Day

sure ( Traffic Rank ) :

Yesterday ( change ) :

7 day avg :

1 month avg :

also pageview/user and users come from these countries + traffic rank in other countries .

see you next update Oh , sorry i mean next post :p

Feedburner problem while posting my feed url

Mohammed — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:59:41 +0000

i faced a big problem ” as you all know I’m not expert in HTML or php” I’m just starter hehe , but i go to much forums ” feedburner , hostmonster and Google groups + much ” but i just put this 3 forums/groups . much people have the same problem but no one fix it , because feedburner support say ” ask your host ” and the host say ” no , it is feedburner problem ” ..

some offer me disable my blugins and try again , i do but nothing changed . still face the problem

i was confused so i was not know where the problem . i was want to put feed count from feedburner in my blog ” money academy” but it still inactive option in my blog feed so i try to activated it but i got this message :

The URL you entered does not appear to be a valid feed. We encountered the following problem: Error on line 650: The markup in the document following the root element must be well-formed.

so what is the problem !

if the feed is not valid , i think that the original feed and feedburner shouldn’t work , but it was work perfectly !!

feedburner give me this link

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smasra.com%2F%3Ffeed%3Drss2

when i check my feed ” all feeds as /feed , /rss2 , /atom/feed ” all show error

Sorry

This feed does not validate.

line 619, column 0: XML parsing error: :620:0: junk after document element [help]

and show me the error source

Source: http://www.smasra.com/rss2

with yellow color i saw the error

but where i fix it !

i searched in my wordpress files ” wp-feed.php , wp-rss.php,wp-rss2.php .. ” but not found the file for this code .

after i disappoint i decide to reinstall my blog again because i was sure that my host is clear ” hostmonster ” and my other sites on this host/server work fine and i burned them feeds without problems !

while i make my database backup i wanted to install it by simplescripts , but when i entered the setup area i found that my blog already setup by semplescripts . and a red mark there show that it need to upgrade to next version ” Version 2.7 ” .

i was know that my blog was 2.6 but i wait to see version 2.8 and upgrade , but in simplescripts you install/upgrade your blog with one click so it was easy to upgrade .

i done .. and the problem was fixed . but after that i still don’t know what was the problem , most of bloggers which found this problem don’t know how to solve and after it solved they don’t know how it solved .

i write this just to share me my wonder about this service from feedburner .. now they start to move from feedburner to Google so don’t worry if you faced this problem also if you know how to solve it tell us .

now everything work fine in smasra ( Money Academy )

Mohammed — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:25:46 +0000

hallo

long time and not hear from me , i know but now everything is fine and i can control my domains , but EstDomains now is nothing ” disappeared ” as you see from them website them domain owned by Directi and all customers transferd to resellercub , but i choose to go to godaddy

now i think you can see notice that EstDomains domain load you to this

so now EstDomains owned by resellerclub

check this

As a result of the EstDomains de-accreditation by ICANN, Directi will be taking over EstDomains’ Registrar operations. ResellerClub, Directi’s Reseller arm, will be managing EstDomains’ Domains and Digital Certificates henceforth. ResellerClub and EstDomains Inc use LogicBoxes’s Registrar Automation platform, OrderBox, which will make the entire migration process a smooth one.

We understand that there might be a sense of confusion or uncertainty concerning domains managed by EstDomains however, you can rest assured that ALL Domain Names registered through EstDomains Inc are absolutely safe and will continue to function normally.

For more updates and information visit the ResellerClub Blog.

in my opinion .. choose the company you register your domains before you think about building any website .

Money Academy

bad news for me , my domains registrar closed ( suspended ) by ICANN org ( EstDomains and YourwebPoint )

Mohammed — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:23:23 +0000

today i got a bad e-mail about my domains registrar they tell me that they closed because of much troubles with ICANN organisation !

they tell me that my domains will be good after they transferred to another registrar

I don’t know how it go but i hope i could transfer to another registrar faster so i can control it ,

i think i will move to Godaddy INC because in my opinion it is number one , but maybe i use another one till i fix all bugs left by this issue .

i will keep my posts and will write here too , but first i completely fix it and back again

here is the email i got with ICANN org link about EstDomains INC

Unfortunately, you have to tell the sad news.
Our parent registrar EstDomains denied accreditation to ICANN. Learn more about this situation can be read here http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-12nov08-en.htm

Therefore, we recommend that you:

1. Urgent test if you’ve entered your personal information when registering domain.
2. Delete all spam filters on your email.
3. Remove all kinds of privacy whois
4. If you have the opportunity to transfer domains to another registrar.

In any situation, your domain does not disappear, they will be transferred to another registrar.

smasra is online now

Mohammed — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:20:04 +0000

Welcome to My Blog that i choose Money Academy as a name for it . This blog will have great material about every thing from money making , blogs and web design , themes & templates and much tips about computer and internet biz so enjoy .

FORZA smasra