Preparing your CV/resume

The first step on the road to working at big or mid sized corporate company is submitting your resume/CV. It’s important that your resume/CV accurately reflects your skills, experience and capabilities. If you graduated from a university within the last two or three years, please detail your individual coursework as well as the overall grade average.

General Information

To make it easier for company to determine where you might best fit within their organization, you can take a few simple steps to help them understand your qualifications.

• PDF, HTML, or Microsoft Word documents or text formats are standards or you can submit using plain text format.
• All resumes/CVs and related materials should be submitted in English.
• Only send essential personal information and be sure to include your name and how to contact you in the resume/CV, not just your cover letter. Include your email, phone and residence address. Do NOT include your gender, date of birth, age, family status or personal identification numbers.

Educational Background

Your resume/CV should accurately reflect your academic achievements and accomplishments.

• Your resume/CV should show all post-secondary institutions attended, degrees conferred and a cumulative grade point average (if available) for each degree received.
• Only report your secondary and university level education; do NOT include elementary schooling.
• Provide a brief description of any important projects you completed as part of your coursework.

Your Work Experience

You may be fresh out of a university, or have substantial work experience and a history of accomplishments. Either way, they want to know what skills you’ve acquired along the way. They’ll look closely at the work experience section of your resume/CV so the information you provide here is very important.

• List your experience and projects completed, accomplishments, etc. by your position with each employer.
• They also want to see concise, important details on your specific accomplishments and the impact your efforts had on your company.
• If you worked while attending a university, either during the summer or concurrent with your course work, be sure mention this even if it isn’t specifically related to a potential job at addressed company

Additional Information

Most modern company, they value talent and intelligence, group spirit and diversity, creativity and idealism. . Tell them what makes you unique!

• Include the names and contact information of 2-3 references. These can include faculty advisors, co-workers, managers, or others who can talk knowledgeably about your skills and abilities. They don’t need copies of any written references you already have.
• Be sure to include any awards you’ve received, articles you’ve published or conference presentations you’ve given.They don’t need to see copies of any awards or publications, just a reference to them. Please be highly objective and detail oriented. For example, if you have obtained a significant rank in a competitive examination, please specify the strength of the total pool that participated in the examination.