Boosting Your Curriculum Vitae: Ways to Develop Transferable Skills and Stand Out in the Job Market

Study Skills
for
Higher Education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
The term CV stands for Curriculum Vitae, this is a type of document which is used by a
person to apply for the jobs. The curriculum vitae includes the person's education, experience,
skills along side with basic personal information of the job seeker. It can be said that you try to
sell your abilities to the employer through the curriculum vitae to the employer. This document
describes the person's each and every step of career journey. In the today's world the
competitiveness of the job market is relatively high, having the right skill with you apart from
the academic degree can differentiate you from the other competitors who are seeking for the
job. The transferable skills are those skills that are useful in every job irrelevance of the field or
title. Also these skills are portable that person have with them (Asamoah, Doran, and Schiller,
2020). The main aim of this essay is to elaborate how a person can boost his curriculum vitae
through different ways, finding the right skill-set to build and how to make his own experience if
a person does not have any work experience for grabbing the attention of the recruiter. It also
aims to examine the different skills that student can learn and develop at universities, and to
evaluate why these skills are important in the workplace, how will these help students in the
workplace.
MAIN BODY
Assessment 1
Curriculum vitae is very essential for the person who has completed his education and
seeking for the job in the job market. When a person goes for the interview, he or she has to
present his CV. The curriculum vitae should not be confused with the resume, resume is a shorter
document which presents a concise key information about professional qualification and skills.
Whereas a curriculum vitae presents full information of whole course of career. The CV
contains important information and documents that are needed to be present in front of the hiring
manager (Dunnick, 2022). It contains informations such as skills, education background,

work experience, career goals and abilities of the person in order to grab the attention of
recruiter. The most important thing in the curriculum vitae is the work experience, but if one
does not have it then is is very difficult to grab the opportunities. But there are certain ways
through which a individual can boost his CV which will help him to grab the attention of the
employer. In each country the Covid-19 pandemic has reduced the number of opportunities for
the youth. The students can develop different type of skills in order to enhance the CV making it
more effective and alluring (Torres-Toukoumidis, and et. al., 2019). The students who does not
have any work experience can work on gaining different types of skills which are commonly
used in every business and workplace. This could increase the performance and capabilities of
the person. The first step in is order is to identify and examine the skills that a person possess and
the skills that are needed to build. Thus the person can find the area of improvement and work on
it (Eduan, 2019). Having the right skill for the specific job can help you during the hiring
process. The person can obtain the right skill set through different modes for instance the
online coursed, skill development programmes and certification courses online. These are
helpful to build the specific knowledge of the field and increasing the capabilities. There are
various online websites that are providing paid and even free courses for the youth. Having these
certifications and skill set in the CV can increase the chances of person to get noticed and hired
for the job. Also some of the companies are providing internship programmes to the students in
which they can enrol and get the practical exposure of the workplace. Through these the student
can obtain the knowledge how the business workplace functions. Connecting with the peers is
another way to increase the opportunities (Frejd, 2020). Connecting with the same field people
and increasing the network is another way to boost the general experience for the people who do
not have any work experience. There are a lot of forums and websites which provides access to
the people to connect with the people who are famous and proficient in particular field. By
gathering information from the working people or experienced people is helpful in gaining
experience of that field. This could help with the guidance to move forward and grow in that
career. There are also different counselling forums are available for the students. These are
conducted with the aim of encouraging the students and helping them performing better in
their life also in achievement of their goals. These counselling sessions find different and
innovative ways for the students and provides chances to them to prove the professional skills
and qualities that they have obtained through the sessions (Macfarlane, 2020).