Writing Your First Professional CV
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Years ago, milk round employers started introducing trick questions on their graduate trainee recruitment applications. They asked things like: What is your worst mistake and how did you recover from it?
Think about that question and what it implies about the people they are searching for: people who can first of all recognise an error, then come up with a strategy to deal with it, then manage a project that gets the result.
What this means in CV terms is that it is that you need to be reflecting on where you are now, not pretending to be Richard Branson.
Avoid using the word 'I' at all costs but describe the experience you do have in such a way that brings out all its value.
