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CV's and Covering Letters

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Effective Applications
Contents
  • When to use a CV
  • Different formats of CVs
  • How to write an effective CV
  • Composing a covering letter
Small and Medium-sized Employers (SMEs) are most likely to ask you to apply by sending in a Curriculum Vitae (CV), which should normally be accompanied by a covering letter (CL). The CV and the CL need to act together as a package, to 'market' you for the job.

This section is about how to produce an effective CV that gets you the job or opportunity you want and that doesn't end up filed in a bin! Often people send out a dull standard CV with a bland covering letter to an unnamed person. That approach will not get the right results, following the strategy here will.

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