Curriculum Vitae Tips
10 Tips to Enhance Your CV & Get Better Results
In today’s highly competitive job market, the importance of putting your best forward – via a stellar CV – is more important than ever. PIH Health Physicians receives a massive amount of CVs for our open positions. Your challenge is to create a CV that not only represents all of the education, experience and creative vision you can bring to our organization, but which also stands apart from the competition.
The following is a list of tips and guidelines to help you prepare a dynamic CV that can help get your foot in the door and drive your career with greater possibilities and rewards.
Determine your objective.
Clearly understand what you want in your career and take the time to form a clear and obtainable objective. Also understand what skills and experience are needed to do well in the position that you are applying for and structure the content of your CV around that objective.
Be clear and concise.
You want us to be interested enough to contact you for an interview. Simply put yourself in the role of the resume reviewer - what would you be looking for in a candidate?
Use bulleted sentences.
CVs are read quickly, key phrases should stand out. Bulleting information will help the recruiters view your related experience and accomplishments at a glance--you can go into the details regarding this information during the interview.
Use active language.
Words like prepared, managed, developed, monitored, and presented make your resume stand out and make us recognize that you are an energetic and enthusiastic candidate who makes things happen.
Highlight your strengths.
Put the strong and most relevant information first. This is your hook for the physician recruiter, the rest of your CV will reel the recruiter in.
Match our need.
Review the job posting on our site and match relavant words to the bullet points in your resume. Chances are you have many of the attributes already, so add them to your CV.
Be positive.
Be relevant. Negative comments don’t belong on your resume. Focus on the duties in your current job that support your objective.
Create a concise format.
A CV should be limited to three to four pages unless you have more than 7 years of work experience or have many published articles. The font size should be no smaller than 10 point, and a font that is easy to read with plenty of space between lines and in the margins.
Get an outside opinion.
Many online CV writing services will review and polish your resume, although you’re the only person who can personalize your CV to fit your objective. Before you send off your CV, have a friend or mentor read through your CV for final input with a fresh perspective.
Make sure to use the right keywords.
Most organizations (even smaller ones) are using digital databases to search for candidates. This means that recruiters may run search queries based on specific keywords, which are typically nouns. Be sure to check the job posting and related job ads for key words and terminology that are used and you should update your CV to match those keywords.