The perfect CV layout has many factors. CV layout is very important to both candidates and employers.
Employers do not look at every word in a CV
In the process of working as well as listening to sharing from colleagues in the HR industry, I rarely receive advice to read carefully every word of the candidate.
Even recruitment lectures introduce the concept of “screening resumes”. It is a brief process for you to imagine, is to read the CV quickly, understand the information on the CV accurately as quickly as possible, and be able to determine that the CV is suitable for the job. How much suitable is the job that the company is recruiting for?
We really need to have sympathy with recruiters about not being able to read every word of yours carefully. The workload greatly affects their processing time and skills. If you are a professional or applying for management positions, I believe employers will spend more time on your CV.
However, most of us are not in the above categories, and the competition for a current job is quite high. Therefore, a suitable, supportive and perfect CV layout for readers to quickly exploit information will be a factor that increases your competitiveness in the job search process.
The perfect CV layout
Personal information
In my personal opinion, an excellent CV presentation layout will have large sections arranged in order: Personal Information, Education and Skills, Work experience, Outstanding results/ achievements gained (optional), and References (This section is recommended).
In large groups of items, you should divide small groups of items into clusters by attribute. Personal information can be classified into groups such as legally unchanged information such as Full Name, Date of Birth, Permanent Address, Passport/ID/Citizen Identification Number.
Group mutable elements such as Contacts, Marital Status, Contact Methods into a group of items. It makes it easy for the reader to get the basic information that every candidate has. Much of the information in this section is demographic.
Education, skills
To present your CV in the category of Education and skills, you can completely divide it into small groups in the order of Education (Prove the knowledge gained in school), Skills (What you have learned in school) acquired through practice, interaction, real-life encounters) and Degree or Certificates (Certifications that you have completed short courses, or attained equivalent proficiency in some part of a program submit).
This split order shows the order of precedence from general to advanced. Education is considered to be general information since most job seekers have completed at least general education programs. Skills and qualifications reveal information at a very high level. A higher degree of your choice and direction in development. It is more elective than mandatory.
Working experience
The group of working experience items I suggest should be divided by companies in ascending chronological order. The jobs that have just been done before the jobs that have been done for a long time. For the group of Outstanding Results/Achievements and References, the same layout can be divided into work experience.
In this group of items, the order is divided backward from what you have done recently to what has been done further. The real reason is that the experience of the job position you have done in recent times will be recorded in better memory, and more often practice, than other distant timelines. Every job offers you a certain growth, so the closer to experience, the more shows you have developed.
I believe that if you don’t change jobs often and the jobs are not related, persistence with passion in a certain field, the capacity in that field will also accumulate gradually over time. So showing off your most recent work will also show how well your skills aggregate and develop. It will be far from what you showed in the first job you got.
