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This is an example of a how a selling CV can be formatted.

There are of course many ways to do it. The most important thing is that it is "neat", clear and that a new reader will see right away that you are a good candidate for the assignment!

Here is a Word template that you can download: Download CV ENG.docx

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CV Joe Smith

Senior Project Manager

The name is sufficient as title, but versions like "Joe Smith - Project manager" or "Consultant Profile Joe Smith"
are also ok.
Year of birth1966
SexMale
LocationLondon
 Motivation Tell us why you are the perfect candidate!
This assignment suit my background perfectly. I have recently completed a project at client X where we did basically the same thing. This in combination with my background and industry experience... blah, blah..
 Focus competence areas On the first page of your CV it must be very clear what kind of consultant you are!
Project Management for large system development projects. Vast experience from various projects in system development on the windows platform. More than 10 years as consultant in project management.
 Focus industries Most of our clients are very focused on seeing reference cases from their industry.
12 years in IT, project experience from Banking, Finance, Medical industries.
 Personal Qualities  What's your personal "brand"?
Structured and driven, well known for delivering on time.
 Technical Skills List your technical skills here.
Note!
You must support these skills by showing in you reference assignments that you have worked with these technologies.
ERP-systems SAP, Oracle Financials
Methods RUP, etc...
Tools MS Office, MS Projekt, Rational Rose, Visual Studio
Programming languages Java, Visual Basic, ASP, HTML, JavaScript
Databases SQLServer 7, 2000. Oracle 7,8i,9i.
OS Windows NT/2000/XP, Linux, HP-UNIX
Etc... Etc...
 Reference Assignments The last 5-10 years' assignments shall be listed and described briefly, in reverse chronological order. This section should be at least 2-3 pages if you have worked as a consultant for 10 years. If it becomes more than 5 pages you may consider reducing the description of older projects.
Company X
Oct 2004-idag
Project manager
Project manager for a large devlopment project where and older billing system was replaced by SAP's billing module. The project ran over 1,5 years and I was the main PM, assisted by 2 technical PM:s and several architects.
Environment: SAP, UNIX, Windows 2000
Company Y
Mar 2003-Oct 2004
Project Manager, Test Manager, Trainer
Implementation of new scheduling system for health care personnel. System X, delivered by ZZZ Inc. Totally 500 end users in the application. The project consisted of 5-25 persons in different phases, I had the overall Project management role.
Environment: System X, UNIX, Oracle DB
Etc... Role: Etc...
Description: Etc...
Environment: M fl...
 Employments List your employment history here.
2001-current IT Consulting Ltd, London. IT-consultant - project manager www.some--domain.com
1999-2001 Ericsson, Stockholm, Project Manager www.ericsson.se
1992-1999 Zeneca, London, System Developer, Project Manager www.astrazeneca.com
 Certificates Relevant certificates for your consultant role. If your certificates are very relevant for your role, list them on the first page!
Project Management: PROPS, RUP
Programming Sun Certified Java Programmer 1999


 Education Formal education and relevant training
Courses: Miscellaneous courses 1994-2002: Project Management, SQL server, .net, Visual Basic, Java
1994 20 credits Business Administration, University of London.
1987-1992 Master of Science in Computer Engineering, MIT Boston
 Personal A brief presentation of the person behind the CV. What "other" skills/interests do you have?
Peronal Qualities I'm a structured person with a strong drive to reach my goals. I enjoy leading a group of people towards a common goal. Bla bla...
Languages English - mother tounge, basic German and Spanish.
Interests Spending time with my family (wife and 2 children), outdoors, skiing, golf.
 References You don't need to state contact info to your references on your CV, but they must be available. We also check with you before callling references. But it must never seem that you have trouble finding references!
Company X Sven-Göran Eskilsson, +44 8 - 123 123 00, Team Leader
Company Y Mike Olsen, +44 8 - 987 987 98, CTO



 Contact information Personal contact info.
NameJoe Smith
Country of citizenshipUK
E-mailjoe.smith@somedomain.com
AddressDowning Street 10, ABC 123 London, UK
PhoneCell: +44 70 - 123 123, Work +44 1 123 123 12




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