• Personal Inventory
• Choosing a CV Type
• Writing
• reviewing
• updating

The inventory step, which many job seekers skip over, helps you identify your skills, interests, personal qualities and accomplishments. Taking a personal inventory helps to insure that nothing important is left out of your CV, and it can assist you in developing your career objective. Even if you already know your objective, we recommend that you work through the following sections.

The majority of job seekers can not identify "what they want to do". Taking the time to analyze your skills, interests, and personality will enable you to narrow your job search scope and write a good CV. A focused CV allows employers to determine where you could fit into their organization and it allows you to get the job you really want!

Skills
First, create a list of all the skills that you possess; these should be ones you have used both in the work place and those you used outside the work place. Your inventory should include skills you currently use as well as those that you have employed in the past. Remember, don't restrict your list to job-related skills!
Interests
Generally, you shouldn't include interests on your CV, however, your interests can help you focus your job search on positions you would enjoy. This list should include activities or ideas that excite and challenge you, as well as those areas you're interested in learning about. Take the time to compile a complete and accurate list.
Personal Qualities
In addition to skills and interests, there's another group of attributes that help define you-your personal qualities. Some of these items should be included in your cv, as they help define qualities that aren't obvious from your skills set. Be honest when you compile a list of your personal traits, but don't be modest. It's important to do an accurate assessment.
Accomplishments
The previous lists you've compiled required you to look inward and examine your skills, interests, and personal traits. The focus for this list is outword as you determine how your actions have impacted the "world" favorably. The most important and relevant accomplishments in this list will be incorporated into your CV. The general criteria for defining an accomplishment is a measurable result produced or created out of your involvement in that activity.
Your Objective
The exercises you completed in the previous sections indentified your skills, interests, personal traits, and accomplishments. By reviewing these lists and linking your interests with your skills set, you can arrive at the most important piece of your CV--the Objective. Your CV should be targeted at the most obvious needs of a particular job(your objective). If you don't identify an objective, your cv becomes too general and your qualifications won't "fit" a position. Remember, in most cases, an employer is interested in filling a specific position. Your objective should be a specific job description or title in a given field. For example, software engineer, technical writer, and project manager are all objectives. An objectives can either be a specific title or a short sentence outlining the position and you goals. The following are some sample objective:

I am interested in obtaining a management position in Marketing where I would coordinate several complex marketing projects simultaneously and where there would be opportunities for long-term growth.

Seeking a challenging administrative position in public relations and communications offering growth opportunity, while utilizing my planning, organization, and follow-through skills.

Once you determine your objective(s), it becomes easy to determine what information should be included in your CV.

For the purpose of standardarization, URSeek would recommend that you choose the combination type. It features skills and accomplishments, but also clearly displays your work history and includes a brief description of each position. The following is an example CV

Ali Abdil Hussain

• Educated in human resources processes. Training and Development, Personal Management and Arbitration.
• Designed and presented training curriculum for individuals and small groups.
• Experienced in budget preparation and analysis, contract negotiation and asset management.
• Strong organizational skills, able to systematize complex work environments.
• Quick to learn new concepts
• Oriented toward cost control so that bottom line is impacted positively and service levels are met.
• Able to maximize potential of software packages

• Directed Financial operations in information systems department supporting 96 operating units with 350 million Dinar and 200 million Dinar hardware inventory;
• Trained department members in work flow procedures to enable financial commitments to be satisfied in effective manner;
• Developed job function specifications;
• Streamlined financial reporting be developing improved processes for data gathering and maintenance.

• Prepared and reviewed IS Operating budget. Administered monthly accounting system and leasing contracts;
• Created inventory database for use in effective asses management;
• Reconciled monthly operating ledger and IS chargeback system for accuracy and reasonablenes.

• Taught, developed and implemented courses of study in Accounting, Keyboarding, and Business Law at the secondary level. Directed district accounting program
• Created significant interest in Accounting program to double numbered of student enrolled.
• Developed and implemented fair and equitable computerized system for selection of student elections.

After you've taken a personal assessment and identified your objective(s), you're ready to begin writing! At its most basic, the CV is an easy-to-read presentation of your skills and accomplishments. The goal of your CV, to convince an employer to grant you an interview, should be considered as you begin writing.

• One Page Rule, in general, regardless of your experience, your CV, should not be more than one page long. However, as with every rule, there are exceptions-and it's up to you to make that determination.
• Eliminate repetition, if you performed the same functions in to or three different jobs, only explaining you most recent position in details
• Shorten sentences, remove useless text from your CV
• Elminate implied information
• Highlight recent employment, if you have a long history, you can summarize early experience with a summary line

• Keep sentences and paragraphs short
• Use active tense and action words
• Use bulleted statements where appropriate
• Use amounts or dollar values where they enhance the description of what you accomplished
• Put your strongest statement first, and work down from there
• Check your CV carefully for spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors

• Include pictures
• List refrences
• Include salary information
• Use "I," it is implied throughout
• Include hobbies, unless they clearly relate to your objective
• Use jargon