CV Writing L.C.2
Enrichment Program
Curriculum and Assessment Unit Dubai: CORE
Unit 1:
Skills and Abilities
TIP: Some skills may not be needed for your current job choice, but
these can be used for another job in the future.
1. Review all
your skills
and abilities
from LC1
2. Choose
the ones that
are directly
related to
your job
choice
3. Write
these in the
box below
Examples:
Here are some examples of job objectives and the related skills and
abilities. Notice that you can COMBINE a couple of your skills together.
If your job objective is a position as “marketing Intern”
Some related skills might be:
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Customer service
Marketing/ Sales/ Display
Computer Knowledge
My job Objective is:___________________________________
My strongest skills and abilities that are also RELATED to my job
objective are:
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http://susanireland.com/resume/how-to-write/objective/
is an excellent site to help you with writing job objectives.
Write one-liners to demonstrate your related skills and abilities
Demonstrating – or documenting – your related skills, is really the HEART
of your CV/ resume
The work you will do in the next few pages takes careful planning and
there are some guidelines here to help you.
1. What is a one liner?
You might sometimes hear the term “one-liner”. A “one liner” is simply a
one line sentence describing how you have used the skills and abilities
you plan to use in your future job- the one you chose as your objective
Sometimes a “one liner” actually takes up two lines, or even three – but it
still called a “one liner”, strange but true!
One liners are usually ACTION STATEMENTS:
They show you in ACTION! They usually start off with ACTION VERBS
A One Liner in some cases might not be an action statement, but instead
it might be a detailed listing of all the equipment or tools you
know how to use, that relate to your job objective – example, all the
computer programs, systems, hardware and software you know.
In that case, list ALL those that apply to your job objective.
Example: Computer knowledge : MS, WORD, EXCEL, Page Maker for MaC
On the next page you will see a list of ACTION VERBS which will help
you.
Ask you teacher if you don’t recognise
all the verbs! Do not worry you will not
need to know them all!
List of Action Verbs to start One Liners:
List of action Verbs Sorted Alphabetically
List of action verbs starting with A
Abstract
Add
Allocate
Arrange
Attract
Accelerate
Address
Amend
Articulate
Audit
Accommodate
Adjust
Analyze
Ascertain
Augment
Accomplish
Administer
Answer
Assemble
Author
Accumulate
Advertise
Anticipate
Assess
Authorize
Achieve
Advise
Apply
Assign
Automate
Acquire
Advocate
Appoint
Assist
Avert
Act
Aid
Appraise
Assume
Award
Activate
Aide
Approve
Attain
Adapt
Align
Arbitrate
Attend
List of action verbs starting with B
Balance
Bolster
Brief
Build
Bargain
Boost
Broaden
Built
Begin
Bought
Budget
List of action verbs starting with C
Calculate
Check
Communicate
Connect
Coordinate
Calibrate
Check in
Compare
Conserve
Copy
Canvass
Check out
Compile
Consider
Correct
Capture
Clarify
Complete
Consolidate
Correlate
Care
Classify
Compose
Construct
Correspond
Catalog
Co-operate
Compute
Consult
Counsel
Catalogue
Coach
Conceive
Contact
Create
Categorize Code
Conceptualize
Contract
Critique
Cater
Collaborate
Conciliate
Contribute
Cultivate
Cause
Collate
Conclude
Control
Customize
Centralize
Collect
Condense
Convert
Chair
Combine
Conduct
Convey
Charge
Comfort
Confer
Convince
Chart
Commence
Confirm
Cooperate
There are more action verbs available at:
http://rfptemplates.technologyevaluation.com/list-of-action-verbs.html
Tips and examples for writing one liners:
•Demonstrate the skill.
•Show where you used
the skills.
Demonstrate
Describe
•Describe each experience
or achievement in a
simple action statement
•We call this the "one
liner"
•Action words at the start
•Specific
•Provable
•successful results
•These will impressive
your future employer
Outline
START with an
Action
END with a
Result
Some examples taken from different CV’s
1. Job objective: Position in IAT Student Support Services
Skill: Computer Experience
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Wrote several long reports using Microsoft Word and Word for MaC
operating system.
Tutored co-workers in basic word processing
2. Job Objective: Position in Office Support
Skill: General Office Skills
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Photocopied and collated monthly newsletters.
Earned volunteer of the month award for applying good solutions
Skill: Typing and Word Processing
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Currently improving my typing speed and accuracy
Created an accurate agency mailing list for over a thousand clients
Now your turn:
Can you complete the skill and one-liners for the following job?
3. Job Objective: Position as an Electrical Engineer in Ducal
Skill:_______________________________________________
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Write your skill One-liners
A related skill (from page )____________________________________
One liners about my experience:
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A related skill (from Page )_____________________________________
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List your work / volunteer experience
As a student in IAT you may not have had much work experience. But
you have the opportunity to take part in volunteer work through the
FAZAA program. You also will get the chance to join an internship
program in the future. Ask your teacher or the Career Counsellor to help
you and explain what an internship program is.
The examples below are from several resumes
Remember to
write your
experience in
chronological
order
1997- 1998 Counter Sales Starbucks Coffee shop, City Center Mall,
Dubai
1998- 1999 Receptionist, Internship, IAT Institute of Applied
Technology (Dubai campus)
2000 (Summer) Internship, Assistant Manager, DUCAL,
DUBAI
2009 (summer) Internship, Personal Assistant to the MD, FEWA, Abu
Dhabi
In your experience include:
One
• All work experience
• Short-term or even unpaid
Two
• Include ALL experience
• Even volunteer work
• Include SANAD
Three • Include Internship program
List your work history
Months and
Years
1.
2.
3.
Position/ job
/Internship
Company
City
Web quests
[30 marks]
Your teacher will assign you one of the following tasks:
http://questgarden.com/110/64/1/101006193850/index.htm
or
http://questgarden.com/108/55/2/100829235353/
or
http://questgarden.com/108/40/4/100822110015/process.htm
or
http://questgarden.com/107/87/8/100803125529/index.htm
or
http://questgarden.com/107/86/3/100803095112/process.htm
or
http://questgarden.com/107/51/2/100727040320/index.htm