{"id":9731,"date":"2022-06-18T13:04:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T13:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/the-importance-of-a-short-concise-cv\/"},"modified":"2022-06-18T13:04:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T13:04:42","slug":"the-importance-of-a-short-concise-cv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/the-importance-of-a-short-concise-cv\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of a Short, Concise CV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-wrapper-content\">\n<div class=\"section the_content has_content\">\n<div class=\"section_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"the_content_wrapper\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Your CV is usually your first introduction to a potential employer and will offer a first impression of you. Although you may want to put everything you have accomplished down on paper to present to your potential employer, it is not always a good idea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">For any one position there may be thousands of applications which means that interviewers will have to look through a large amount of CVs and narrow them down. Most companies simply don\u2019t have the manpower or the time to read through every CV thoroughly when they are in the first stages of narrowing down the applications. Make sure yours makes the cut by following these tips:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Keep your first submitted CV to one page only<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Put all essential information at the top of the page<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Make sure it is clear to read and understand<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">List your work experience clearly<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Cut out excess information and stick to what is essential<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"at-below-post addthis_tool\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.pnet.co.za\/blog\/the-importance-of-a-short-concise-cv\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"section section-post-footer\">\n<div class=\"section_wrapper clearfix\">\n<div class=\"column one post-pager\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"section section-post-about\">\n<div class=\"section_wrapper clearfix\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"section section-post-related\">\n<div class=\"section_wrapper clearfix\">\n<div class=\"section-related-adjustment\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your CV is usually your first introduction to a potential employer and will offer a first impression of you. Although you may want to put everything you have accomplished down on paper&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}