CV guides

Practical advice to make your CV clearer, sharper and more convincing — whatever your job.

• How to quantify achievements on your CV (without making anything up)

  Volume, time, budget, percentage: find the figures in your career and write them without exaggerating.

• CV length: one page or two? The right length for your career

  Guidelines by experience level, and how to cut without losing what matters.

• CV summary: 10 examples and how to write one

  The four-sentence method, and ten examples for your situation and your job.

• Which skills to put on a CV (and how to prove them)

  Which ones to choose, how many to list, and how to prove the qualities everyone claims.

• Employment gap on your CV: how to present time out of work

  What to write, what not to write, and how to discuss it in an interview without over-explaining.