Top Ten CV Credit Crunching Tips

As the Credit Crunch continues to sink its jaws into the City’s jugular, there’s never been a more pressing time to make sure, particularly if you’re one of the 800 lawyers lamenting their lay off, that your CV is a diamantine reflection of who you are, what you’ve done and, most importantly, what you can offer a prospective recruiter.

As the torrent of CVs starting catapulting legal recruitment agencies it’s imperative you make yours stand out from the crowd.

Here’s How

Legal recruiters BMD Group offers some handy tips on making your CV as effective as possible

1. Make CVs clear and as easy to read as possible – laws of attraction state that you make up your mind whether you’re interested in another person within 7 seconds. The same applies for CVs.

2. Organise the page to be easy on the eye. Try and keep fonts uniform, sentences short and powerful and lay out neat.

3. Put all of your education information in clear chronological order

4. Do the same for your legal training and work experience

5. Ensure that there are no errors, gaps or discrepancies in your information – lying on your CV will brand you with a black mark with any recruiter and, more often than not, you’ll get caught out. It’s just not worth the hassle.

6. Do not make your CV too long or overly – complicated. If you can, try and keep it to one page.

7. Ensure that your experience is succinct and pertinent to the role you are applying for. If you can, repeat key words found in the job description.

8. Do not omit points of experience that might catch an employer’s attention – have you done anything unusual or ‘out of the box’ that could be valued in the workplace? If so, what?

9. Make your CV positive – if you don’t ‘big’ yourself up, who will? Use  positive key –words that portray you in the best light possible,

10. Ask a reliable colleague or family member to read through and comment on your CV.  Try and gauge as much positive and negative criticism as possible and fine tune away.

For more information on the BMD Group click here: Legal jobs