CV: YOUR NAME

Address details

Contact Number

Email Address

Executive Summary

This section should be a detailed summary of your career experience and capabilities, heavily descriptive of everything you are about with a big picture or ‘helicopter’ focus, at least 3 to 4 lines of text here.

  • Further more specific information on a major achievement here…..
  • And another (different) achievement…..
  • Ideally a third one too if possible….

Education / Professional Qualifications

Post-graduate Graduate Diploma of Chartered Accounting

Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, 2007

Tertiary Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Finance)
University of New South Wales, 2003

Secondary Higher School Certificate (UAI of 92.45)

Sydney Grammar School, 2000

Employment Summary

Company 1 name
(most recent first) / Job title / Dates from and to
Company 2 name / Job title / Dates from and to
Company 3 name / Job title / Dates from and to

Employment History

Name of Company 1, locationDate from, to date

Comprehensive description of the company, including what it does, size, location, employees, turnover etc., even add a company website URL if appropriate

Summary of your role within the business, this should be a broad overview of your role, where it sits within the business, reporting to whom and any direct staff members reporting to you.

Responsibilities

  • Always use bullet point format (as this is)
  • List roughly 10 different responsibilities to your role and company
  • Only use 2 lines max per bullet point
  • Think of everything you are responsible for
  • Keep going
  • And more
  • And more
  • This is your job, you can fill this up
  • Keep going
  • Are you sure there aren’t any more?
  • Certain??
  • Ok, on to the next part

Achievements (refer to Wright Executive Blog post on Employment Value click the link!)

  • This is the important stuff
  • What are your highlights in your role?
  • What haveYOU actually achieved? (not just as part of a team, but you as an individual)
  • Can you quantify this in to $$ made, saved, increased bottom line, revenues etc
  • Have you saved time?
  • Maybe improved the quality of something
  • Built a new system
  • Improved something
  • New ideas brought to the company which added significant value
  • Always be thinking, “what is my value to a business”

(Now repeat this for every major role you have had in your career)

Name of Company 2, locationDate from, to date

Comprehensive description of the company, including what it does, size, location, employees, turnover etc, even add a company website URL if appropriate

Summary of your role within the business, this should be a broad overview of your role, where it sits within the business, reporting to whom and any direct staff members reporting to you.

Responsibilities

  • Always use bullet point format (as this is)
  • List roughly 10 different responsibilities to your role and company
  • Only use 2 lines max per bullet point
  • Think of everything you are responsible for
  • Keep going
  • And more
  • And more
  • This is your job, you can fill this up
  • Keep going
  • Are you sure there aren’t any more?
  • Certain??
  • Ok, on to the next part

Achievements (refer to Wright Executive Blog post on Employment Value click the link!)

  • This is the important stuff
  • What are your highlights in your role?
  • What haveYOU actually achieved? (not just as part of a team, but you as an individual)
  • Can you quantify this in to $$ made, saved, increased bottom line, revenues etc.
  • Have you saved time?
  • Maybe improved the quality of something
  • Built a new system
  • Improved something
  • New ideas brought to the company which added significant value
  • Always be thinking, “what is my value to a business”

Computer Skills:

  • List the software packages here - (advise if advanced, Intermediate or basic)
  • As many as necessary, relevant
  • List the most used/experienced software first
  • Think of any specialist tools, applications, systems, ERP’s, cloud based technologies
  • Anything you can think of.

References

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