Your curriculum vitae is your first and sometimes only chance to impress your new employer. Some CVs are looked at for a matter of seconds and so if they don’t stand out and impress, you have lost your opportunity for the new job. Paramount Personnel has compiled a checklist to ensure you write an impressive CV for a role in hospitality, so if you’re looking to apply for a new position – keep reading!
- At Paramount Personnel we always suggest studying the role and the job description and writing your cv around this. Your cv should provide evidence as to why you are the best person for this specific job.
- Add your education and qualification history from GCSEs and onwards. Even if you studied a subject unrelated to the hospitality industry if you earned a qualification write it down. Showing that you have the skills to apply yourself to a course is worth taking note of.
- Add any work experience you have! If your experience isn’t necessarily relevant note how you learned skills that would be transferrable to your new role. It’s worth visiting our previous blog post ‘skills required for the hospitality industry’ and be certain that you possess these skills.
- Make sure you add any extra training and volunteer work you have completed, especially if this is relevant to the role. If you haven’t completed any training/volunteering that may put you a step ahead, now is the time to.
- Think about adding references to your CV. These can be past employers, or a professional person known to you that can back up the information you have stated. However, you can choose to put ‘available upon request’ if you choose. In doing so, this will not affect the quality of your CV but will keep the information on the document concise.
- Following on from the last point, keep your CV concise. Bullet point information is fine. Remember this will likely get glanced at so make it easily readable.
- There are many CV templates to follow, to ensure you present your document professionally. Regardless of where you create your CV (word document etc.) make sure you convert it to a PDF file so any employer can access it, regardless of their software.
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