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Your CV must include the following details:

• personal details: name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, date of birth, marital status
• education
• qualifications
• language skills
• professional experience
• personal experiences
• interests or activities
• two referees

In addition, your CV or a covering letter should demonstrate:

• your motivation to join the company
• your interest in company’s professional services activities
• your orientation towards teamwork
• your desire for continuing education
• your communication and language skills
• your reasoning skills
• your appropriate technical knowledge for the vacancy in question

The second list of requirements can be summarised in a single phrase: Show the employer that you can do this job and that you would fit in well. If you can demonstrate that then you will have shown your ability to communicate in an effective and concise way.

DON’T do the following:

• Say why you left a previous job (unless specifically asked to by the employer)
• Criticise a former employer
• Criticise former colleagues
• Use negative language
• Claim skills you don’t possess

Don’t just construct one CV and send the same information for each job you apply for. Follow the employer’s instructions or guidelines, read the key words in the job description, and then adapt your basic CV accordingly.

(Nguồn: Luyện viết Thư tín và Hợp đồng Thương mại Quốc tế – Chương trình đào tạo qua mạng của CCE)