1. Curriculum Vitae Writing Exit Group 2010

2. CV ► What is a CV? ► What should be in a CV? ► How do you write your CV? ► How is your CV read?

3. CV ► Employers perspective ► What do they want?  Right skills / attitudes / experience for job  Picture of person fitting into team  To help make the right choice of candidate

4. CV ► Produce 4 main areas  Education  Work experience  Activities and interests  Demograhpics

5. CV ► For each area produce list of things that you have done Education - Medical degree / university Work experience - VTS rotation / GP registrar year Interests - Play squash

6. CV ► Go through each item on your list and write down the highlights  Academic prize  Prize winning audit on tft’s in hypothyroid patients !  Represented England at squash

7. CV ► Go through these highlights and identify knowledge and skills gained and list attributes demonstrated or developed.

8. CV ► Communication skills ► Organisational ability ► Problem solving ► Team work ► Drive and imitative ► Taking responsibility ► Analytical skills ► Creativity ► Leadership ► Motivation ► Planning ► Working under pressure

9. CV ► Some areas will be missing! ► Give evidence to support claims made above – “ I have good leadership skills “ – evidence for this would be “ I wanted to make the appointment system more effective and worked with the reception staff / manager and DNA’s were reduced by 30%”

10. CV ► This is starting to develop a different type of CV – Competency Based CV ► CV styles  Chronological  Competency / Skills based

11. Chronological CV ► Name ► Personal details  Contact addresses / phone numbers  Emails  Nationality  DOB  Gender / marital status optional

12. Chronological CV ► Education  Put in reverse order  MRCGP  Degree  School education  A levels no real need to list GCSE’s

13. Chronological CV ► Work experience  GP Registrar year  VTS / Hospital posts  Emphasise responsibilities / achievements / positions of responsibility / skills achieved relevant to primary care  Relevant skills – IT / languages

14. Chronological CV ► Interests  Travel / Outside interests / sports / family responsibilities  Try to have balance of active / passive / group / individual pursuits References – ask first!

15. Skills Based CV ► Advantages – focuses key skills and will make your cv stand out. ► Disadvantages – more thought needed, may need rewriting for different jobs e.g. partnership / locum post

16. Skills Based CV ► Personal details as before ► Key Skills  Pick out key skills from advert / job spec and demonstrate why you meet them  Must have interest in women's health ► Attained DFFP Loc IUD Produced an audit on cocp usage in the over 40’s

17. Skills Based CV ► If you are enthusiastic and motivated we would like to hear from you ► We would encourage you to develop a special interest to compliment the partners ► BMJ Editor – you must be a proactive team player with excellent communication skills and have a track record of critical appraisal of research.

18. Skills Based CV ► Some examples of skills include communication, team working, problem solving skills, leadership, time management, academic ability, drive, working under pressure etc. ► Make each skill a subheading and bullet point the evidence ► Use specifics ► For each skill use different examples and your personal role and involvement ► Team working is not just about leadership – include delegation, motivation, co-ordination, completer.

19. Skills Based CV ► IT / Languages -Can be worth mentioning skills eg EMIS / IPS ability -Education / Work Experience / Interests / Activities / References as above -Clean driving license!

20. First Impressions ► Laser printed onto 100 g/m² paper – what colour? ► Ideally no longer than 2 sides A4 on separate sheets ► Black ink to ease photocopying ► Use A4 envelope and same paper for covering letter ► ? Prepare professionally ► Use a simple font – Tahoma / Arial / Times New Roman ► Use BOLD / Italics / Underlining to separate points BUT NOT ALL AT ONCE