This article was created in cooperation with Dorota Sambor and Aleksandra Serek.
In today’s competitive job market, having a well-written and polished CV is essential to stand out from the crowd and land your dream job. Your CV is often the first impression that potential employers have of you, and it is important to make sure that it showcases your skills, experience, and achievements in the best possible light.
If you need some tips to follow while composing your CV – there are some of the do’s and don’ts.
What you should include in your CV?
- First name and surname
- Contact details (telephone number, e-mail address)
- Country of residence
- Information on the requirement/not requirement of a work visa
- Technical skills and soft skills
- Professional experience in chronological order (at the top the most recent experience, the lower the older)
- Describe the projects you participated in (what the project was about, what technologies were used)
- Technical skills certification e.g. AWS
- Knowledge of foreign languages, and certificates
- Higher education (university)
- Max 2 pages of CV
- Professional goal
- A summary of your career so far, e.g. years in the positions
- Link to profile on GitHub, Linkedin, and link to portfolio
- CV in PDF format
What you don’t have to/shouldn’t include in your CV?
- Hobbies, unless related to work
- Address details
- PESEL number
- Work visa number
- ID/passport number
- Number of children, marital status
- Basic education (primary school, middle school)
- Private communication channels, e.g. Skype if your login doesn’t sound very professional
- Photo is optional unless required, and if it is “professional”, not a selfie, holiday photo, partner photo
- Religion
- Political preferences
- Sexual orientation
- References, if required
- Information about professional qualifications, e.g. driving license, unless it is required in a given profession
Extra tip: Where to make your CV?
Summary
Whether you are just starting your career or looking to advance to the next level, a strong CV is an essential tool that can help you achieve your goals. Of course, you can include or exclude some things, depending on if it’s required by a given profession or is specified in the job description.
Dorota Sambor
Senior IT Recruiter
At Ntiative, she’s a recruiter who’s all about matching talent with opportunity. With a deep understanding of the industry she gained throughout the years and a relaxed, easy-going approach, she helps candidates navigate the job market with confidence. What relates both to her private and professional life is the feeling of pushing herself to new limits and seeing the results of hard work pay off.
Aleksandra Serek
IT Recruiter
Aleksandra at Ntiative works as an IT Recruiter in the RPO model. She finds the best talents on the market and successfully helps them through recruitment, matching the talent to the organization’s needs.
