HOW TO WRITE A PROFESSIONAL CV

A Professional CV consists of six key issues, namely :-(i). Personal details (ii). Academic qualifications (iii). Work experience (iv). Skills (v). Referees (vi). Note

A professional CV has no title, here most of the people write the title CURRICULUM VITAE (CV). This is not a professional way of writing CV since the contents itself portrays. Now let’s take a look on one content after another, all headings are written in capital letters. Consider a Cv sample below:-

PERSONAL DETAILS:

Name:  here write the names as appear most in your certificates

Age:  XXX years

DOB: yy/mm/dd (we start with year since employer is not interested with your birth date)

Gender: male/Female (here do not write Sex since now days there are Gays)

Nationality: xxxxxxxx

Tribe: xxxx (don’t ignore this)

Marital status: Singe/married/widowed etc

Languages: (here it is necessary to include your local language eg Chaga, most of the people do include only English and swahili)

Hobbies: (Some people copy other people’s hobbies, you may found someone write driving while actually he/she don’t know how to drive. Or someone may write swimming after being employed, immediately there is staff part at the beach to welcome new staffs then you fail to swim its shaim so don’t copy other peoples hobbies)

Contacts: +255xxxxxxxxx and your Email

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

You are recommended to put it in tabular form, apply top down presentation

INSTITUTION	DURATION	AWARDED	LOCATION
Udom	Nov 2010-July2013	Bsc. Computer eng	Dodoma
Cbe(long form this is an eg)	Nov 2007-july 2009	Diplomain ict	dsm

Proceed with A-level, O-level then end up with primary education.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

In writing work experience some people include tasks, don’t write them since it shows that you cannot perform other tasks out of that. Eg. You are applying for a position of accountant then in your cv you indicated the tasks: opening ledger accounts and financial statements, here the company might say this guy do not know about bank reconciliation statements.  All contracts you worked above six months are to be included in work experience.

NAME OF COMPANY/ORGANIZTION	POSITION	LOCATION	DURATION
Blue	Loan officer	mbeya	2010
sua	Data entry(Volunteer)	morogoro	2013

SKILLS:

All Seminars and workshops, driving etc. are included in this section. Moreover all IT packages obtained below 6 months, above 6 months should be included in Academic qualification

ORGANIZATION/COMPANY	TITLE	YEAR
SUA	Personality development	2013
Amazon driving school	“E” Class driving licence	2012
UCC	Microsoft office applications	2011

REFEREES:

Here do not include you relatives, there should be at least three names and the details required here includes

-Name

-Occupation

-Address

-Contacts

After these, end up your CV with a note, it is not recommended to put your signature.

NOTE: 1. I can work under pressure

            2. I can work without Supervision.