Your Name Contact Details (including Town and County) Telephone numbers including mobile contact details Email address & professional Linkedin address

You should use Arial or similar business font and the size should be 10.5 or 11. Link to your website if you have one if it is career or work related. Don’t use a jokey email or Facebook/Twitter page that could make you look unreliable or unprofessional. Your CV should not exceed two pages. ______

PROFILE This is a 30 to 40 word statement about that should highlight all of your appropriate transferable skills, expertise and qualifications. Also describe what you are like to work with, please see example in italics below:

Profile An experienced Housing administrator with valuable transferable IT skills in diary and Microsoft Office management and also lettings management, I am able to work in pressured environments where every penny and second count. Highly personable I get the best out of my team, whether leading them or working with them.

WORK HISTORY List a maximum of three work histories here, starting with your most recent and ending with your oldest one. If you have progressed with the same employer it’s fine to make up the three histories in different roles. Once more highlight transferable experience and skills used that relate to the job or industry that you wish to move into. See the work history example below in italics:

Work history Title Held, Name of Company Dates of employment Whilst working as the Team Administrator with company X, in their Head Office, I provided support and excellent internal and external customer care to the Lettings Services team. We achieved consistent high quality scores against SLA’s set with local authority X [etc.].

QUALIFICATIONS List your highest qualification here and any relevant courses that you’ve attended, unless you are a recently qualified post graduate or school/college leaver. Recent qualifications should be listed first, in most cases the degree or A/S Levels are listed last. If you are a first or second jobber graduate, college or school leaver list your highest qualification with more information; including any project or dissertation work relevant to the career change that you are hoping to make. See example in italics below:

Qualifications recently completed courses

Academic institution/Awarding body name – Course name Start date: dd/mm/yy End date: dd/mm/yy Skill/qualification obtained – level achieved

University name Start date: dd/mm/yy End date: dd/mm/yy Degree name – Subject – Grade awarded Detail project completed or dissertation description if you are light on work history. AWARDS AND MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES

Focus on awards & membership of professional or trade bodies that will support your career change.

INTERESTS

If you are a little light on ‘relevant’ work history here, or in the ‘Awards & membership’ section; list interests that relate to the occupation that you hope to move into (where possible). Also identify appropriate work skills using 30-40 words maximum.

However avoid phrases including 'socialising', 'partying' etc.

References available on request

Privacy and identity theft have become an issue in recent years and it is best to protect the details of your referees, do not include their contact information on your CV. Employers don't need this information within the early stages of the recruitment process.