Practical guides
Guides for your CV and cover letter
Short, practical guides to preparing an application: tailoring your CV to a job ad, writing the cover letter, preparing the file for applicant tracking systems and avoiding the most common mistakes.
How to tailor your CV to a job ad, step by step
Read the ad methodically, match each requirement to evidence from your career, and rewrite without inventing anything.Cover letter: structure, a fill-in skeleton and examples
A five-part structure, a skeleton to fill in, and short examples of what works and what doesn't.ATS-friendly CV: format, fonts, sections and file type
Layout, fonts, sections and file type so that an applicant tracking system reads your CV without losing anything.Common CV mistakes and how to fix them (with notes for Angola)
Too much personal data, ID numbers, photos, languages and vague profiles: what to fix, with notes for applicants in Angola.
Have your CV and the job ad at hand. The rest takes a few minutes.
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