Word count. Academic employers tend to be less prescriptive than industry employers about the length of a CV. Arrange your CV to ensure that a recruiter sees the most important parts first. Structure.

Another format, advocated by Laura DeCarlo, executive director of Career Directors International, a trade association for résumé writers and career coaches, and the former director of career ...

Your CV is the first point of contact between you and a prospective new employer. It is unlikely that the reader will know anything about you except what’s in the CV – so try to see it from their ...