Include your name, address, date of birth, mobile number, email, web page, LinkedIn profile and other relevant social media. It’s common to include a passport-sized photo in the top right-hand corner of the CV. Remember to highlight your skills that are relevant to the job you are applying for.

Include your secondary and upper secondary education, your school leaving certificates and matriculation examination results as well as your degree subject and university. Mention your grades or grade point averages unless they are poor.

List your work experience starting with your newest one. Give a brief description of your duties. Use action words such as developed, planned and organised. Remember to mention if your job involved working in a team or with customers, or dealing with complaints. Don’t mention the routine, non-people tasks such as cleaning rooms. Describe what skills were needed in the job.

Keep this section short and to the point. As you grow older, your employment record will become longer and your interests won’t be that important anymore. Give emphasis to interests where you need people skills. Show that you are interested in a lot of things. Any interests relevant to the job are worth mentioning. Any evidence of leadership is also important to mention such as a captain or coach of a sports team, course representative, chair of a student society or scout leader.

The usual ones to mention are languages as well as a description of your command of that language (good conversational French, basic Spanish). Also list your computer skills e.g. good working knowledge of MS Word and Excel, plus basic web page design skills.

Normally two referees are sufficient: one academic (perhaps your tutor or a project supervisor) and one employer (perhaps your previous part-time or summer job).

Here's some advice on 7 things to leave off your CV by Glass door 

1. A Language You Only Studied in secondary school - Sure, you took French in high school for a few years, but are you really at a level where you feel comfortable holding everyday conversations with native speakers, or reading in that language? If the answer is “no,” it doesn’t belong on your CV. 
2. Basic Computer Skills Like Email and Microsoft Word - Listing “email” or “Microsoft Word” as skills is almost equivalent to listing “reading” or “basic maths”. They’re not differentiators — they’re expected. Adding these can be seen as trying to bulk out your CV. The exception to this is if you’ve honed a very specific practice using these programs
3. Social media - Your personal and professional brand are two completely different things. Unless you're applying for a social media strategist role, you shouldn't be mentioned you social media ‘skills’, even if you do post great pictures and have thousands of friends. 
4. Soft skills - You can still include these but they need to be demonstrated through examples rather than stated flat. Listing out soft skills can be seen as though you are trying to ensure that the employer sees you have these skills. Saying that you’re a good communicator, for example, is useless without concrete examples to support it. Instead of listing ‘multitasking’ or ‘leadership’ as a skill, candidates should write ‘led multiple concurrent projects through to completion leading to x% ROI’ under the relevant position.
5. Exaggerations or Flat-Out Lies - Yes we’ve told you to include a variety of keywords from the job description in your CV, but if you don’t have one of the skills listed, you shouldn’t include it just for the sake of mirroring the language. The truth will always come out. Remember - you dont need to have every single skill listed in the job description to apply for a job — a good rule of thumb is that you should be an 80 to 90 percent match.
6. Outdated Tech - Technology is constantly updating so its important to stay up to date, otherwise, you risk looking like you’re unable to keep up in a dynamic workplace. In a competitive market, employers want to invest people who have demonstrated an ability to learn quickly
7. Irrelevant or Joke skills - This may sound obvious, but there truly are people who still list things like “expert-level guacamole maker” or “certified ping-pong champ” on their CV. Do not include skills that are irrelevant to the job you are applying for.

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