A CV is a brief summary of your abilities, education, experience and skills. Its main task is to convince prospective employers to contact you.

Your CV is the main tool we use to sell your experience and skills, so it's well worth investing time in its preparation so that it emphasises your skills and experience - and demonstrates your ability to meet our clients' demands.

Taking time to prepare a good CV is the best way to make sure recruiters sit up and take notice of your application.

The more thoroughly you prepare your resume now, the more likely someone is to read it later.

We have put together some suggestions to help you impress employers on paper as much as you will when you have an interview.

Our key tips:

• Try to keep your CV short to 2-4 pages
• Be sure to include a candidate profile, summary of business and technical skills, education and awards details, and of course your contact details
• For each assignment - indicate what you did and achieved, and keep the project/company description brief 
• Don’t use unusual typefaces or gimmicks like exclamation marks
• The layout should be clear and neatly spaced so it’s easy to read
• Double check spelling, grammar and punctuation
• Avoid exaggerating any facts or information
• Consider preparing different CVs, each with a different emphasis if you are targeting different types of job or employer