What should be included:

• First and last names
• Address
• Phone numbers, including country code
• Email address
• Date of birth (only in the British CV)

What should be avoided:

• A picture of you (the norm in English-speaking countries)
• Religion
• Nationality
• Place of Birth
• Marital status

What should be included:

• Name of the company/institute and location (city and country, because some cities might be unknown to the employers)
• Work period (month and year)
• Professional job title or your responsibility
• Main activities and your tasks

Here is some helpful action words you can use:

Obstained/ Volunteered/ Represented

Provided/ Published

Established/ Expedited/ Evaluated

Increased/ Intiated/ Investigated

Accomplished/ Achieved/ Acquired

Competed/ Compiled/ Conceived/ Consolidated

What should be contained in your academic background:

• Name of the facility, city and country
• Field of study
• Study peroid (month and year)
• Title of the degree
• Title of the thesis
• Your final grade

! Further trainings and professional training programme can be listed. But make sure those are of relevance of the vacancy.

Research Experience:

• Duration (month and year)
• Name of institution, city and country
• Project name
• Job title
• Statement of tasks (if you obtained funding, emphasize it)

Teaching Experience:

• Duration (month and year)
• Name of institution, city and country
• Job detail
• Course name and content

• Name of the company/institute
• Name of the grants/honors, etc
• The year awarded

Presentations such as:

• Lectures
• Talks
• Poster presentations in a symposium, conference, guild or group

Publication such as:

• Books
• Chapers
• Articles
• Posters
• Blogs

Presentation and publications should follow the JAIC Style Guide.

The most important skills are those below:

• Language skills
• Computer knowlege
• Driver license, if relevant

Some words can be used to describe the level of your language skills:

Beginner-Elementary-Intermediate-Upper intermediate-Advanced-Fluent-Business fluent-Mother tongue

What should be included here:

• Two to three references
• Name, position, institution and contact details of the references
• You could write: References available on request.(to avoid having more potential employers call at your references)

Front and size

• Between 10pt and 12pt
• Highlight your important part with a font size of 14pt or 16pt, or capital letters
• Time New Roman, Arial or Calibri are standard option

Length

• Normally, a CV is a maximum of 2 pages long. But an academic CV may include 5 to 7 pages, and sometimes, even more.

CV File Format

• Convert your CV into the PDF format to keep your everything free of distortion in your reader's device.

1. Spelling

Use British English or American English to the country where you are applying for a job. For example:

• Lawyer-Solicitor(British English)-Attorney(American English)
• Analyze(American English)-Analyse(British English)
• Catalyze(American English)-Catalyse(British English)
• Realize (Primary spelling in British English)-Realise(Secondary spelling in British English)

2. Grades

The table below shows grades at universities in UK and their equivalent in the US grading system

3. References

It is important to include references in applying positions in the US, while references are listed only if eplicitly requested in the position description.