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Banking CV Tips

Whether you are a school-leaver about to embark on your search for meaningful employment or an experienced professional facing a career crossroad, the whole recruitment process may well hinge on the quality and composition of your curriculum vitae (CV).

A good starting point with any business document is to consider:

• who it will be targeted at,
• what message you want to convey and
• what response it is designed to solicit.

This is certainly true of the humble CV, especially as you may be corresponding through a third party agency, via a recruitment website or directly with the target company. You may already have realised that you will probably need two or three variations of your CV depending on where it is to be sent. During this planning stage you should consider what type of role you are looking for, which industry sector you will work within and how best to present your skills and experience in order to be considered for such a role.

The CV is the appetiser designed to get the recruiter to want to learn more. It is in the interest of the recruiter to get the very best candidate for the specific vacancy and it is their responsibility to decide what the successful candidate will have to look like.

Where to start and what should the finished article look like?
Well, we would suggest that your CV be a maximum of two pages long, be constructed in a simple format that is easy to read and follow and should utilise a conservative font such as Arial, Times New Roman or Tahoma. There are no perfect or approved formats for a successful CV but we have found the following to be a successful formula.

Contact Information: List your contact information at the top of your CV. Be sure to include your full name, postal address and contact telephone numbers, also remembering your e-mail address.

Experience: We would recommend that you list your experience chronologically with your most recent position first. We would strongly suggest that you do not lie on your CV. You should try to include specific skills and achievements within this section to demonstrate your proven ability in the role.

Skills / Qualifications / Education / Training: It is essential that you consider all of your expertise when completing this aspect of your CV, including such aspects as foreign languages, public speaking and computer literacy. Similarly, if you have developed business management skills and fully understand / utilise cash flow forecasting, balance sheets and management accounts, let the recruiter know about it!

Personal Details: There is already legislation preventing prejudice on the basis of age and it is universally taboo for a recruiter to discriminate on the basis of sex, race, religion or colour but the candidate must be aware that in today's selective employment market, the recruiter will have developed a profile and specification for the requirements of the job.

Interests: With very few exceptions, the recruiter is looking for a candidate who presents a balanced and considered image of themselves and it is here that the candidate can show the personal / private side of their life.