Build Your CV

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This learning playlist will guide through every step in building your shiny CV! You will find out many tips, examples and videos on each chapter of a CV. Learn what professionals recommend you and succeed in your future career!
This learning playlist was created during the strategic partnership project "New Dimension in Career Guidance", supported by the Erasmus+ programme and organised by partners from Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus and Ireland. #CareerForYouth

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Build your CV: Top of the CV

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Build your CV: Personal profile

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Build your CV: Education

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Build your CV: Work experience

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Build your CV: Skills

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Build your CV: Achievements

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When writing your CV you need to cover your basic responsibilities. Keep your duty summaries concise and try to concentrate on the results that came out of your everyday work. So, highlight your achievements, not your duties!
Achievements are things you did that had a lasting impact for your organisation or a project. It is a result that you personally bring about while fulfilling a particular role. Typically they are things that you created, built, designed, sold or initiated.An achievement is unique to your experience and tells the employer that you can deliver. So, keep your duty summaries concise, and focus instead on unique accomplishments.
Watch a couple of videos and read more in the article added below. You will find out the reasons why achievements oriented CV has more chances to be noticed.
Now think and write down what are your major professional and personal achievements, which you would add to your CV? Write it down here to earn your open badge!

Resources

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Tasks

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Now think and write down what are your major professional and personal achievements, which you would add to your CV?

Skills

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#describe your expertise

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#self-awareness

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#prepare for job interview

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#self-promote

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#self-reflection

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#show self-knowledge

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Time to complete: 3 hours 5 minutes

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