CV: A Comprehensive Guide to Writing a Curriculum Vitae

This portfolio provides a comprehensive guide to writing a curriculum vitae (CV) for job applications. It includes a detailed explanation of what a CV is, its purpose, and how it differs from a resume. The portfolio also includes a sample CV and cover letter, as well as tips and advice for creating an impressive CV. Whether you're a student, recent graduate, or experienced professional, this guide will help you create a CV that stands out and gets noticed by employers.

CV
1

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................3
1. A CV.......................................................................................................................................3
2. Cover letter ............................................................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
2. Application form.....................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................10
Books and Journals...................................................................................................................10
2

INTRODUCTION
CV is the Latin phase of curriculum vitae which indicates the meaning 'course of life'. It
is the detail document that highlights the professional and academic history of an individual. It
involves details like work experience, certificates, experiences and scholarships and grants that
an individual has learnt. Interview is the conversion between two or more persons in which one
person ask some questions related to professional and personal life. This is done at the time when
a person is applying for any job position (Garcia, 2017) . CV and interviews are the part of
Human resource manager. Mangers responsibility is to hire and select the best candidates for the
company so that they can help them in achieving success of organisation. This portfolio consist
of curriculum vitae and cover letter. Then it some interview questions that are to be asked by the
mangers at the time of interviews.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
1. A CV
As in this portfolio I am applying for the role of Human resources manager. As HR
manager is the one who managed all the activities performed in the business operations and his
responsibility is to hire and select the best candidates for the company. A CV and resume are
similar to each other because they both are documents and they summarize individuals
professional history, skills and abilities and education, experiences and achievements and
certifications. A resume is a short form document that provides overview of skills, roles and
education details (Torres and Gregory, 2018). On the other hand, CV is the detailed document
that mostly focus on academic and professional details. So, here is the curriculum vitae discussed
below:
John Watson
322, Main street,
London, United Kingdom.
[phone]
[e-mail]
14 April 1997,
3

Summary
Human resource manger is the practical understanding of business needs. Creative skills and
leadership skills that helps the company to achieve its objectives and goals.
Highlights
 Hiring and retention Training and development
 Employees engagement and relations Innovative and creative
 Compensation and rewards Personal records maintenance

Accomplishments
 Improve paper work processing line by 40% by creating submission process.
 Reducing in employee turnover by 15% by implementation of new programmes and
strategies and bonus structure.
Experience
Human resource manager
Grocery store
 Personal training and development sessions.
 Identification of staff requirements and hire, interviews and select best candidates for
the company.
 Act as a mediator between superiors and workers in the company by handling their
issues and problems and foster positive work environment.
 Created new bonus and compensation structure that improves employees morale and
boost their performance.
HR Generalist
Grocery store
 Act as a respondent to employee questions and problems in timely manner.
 Updation of company job description to attract more candidates for the job roles.
 Redesigning of employee handbook according to the beneficial and legal changes.
4

Education
 Bachelor of commerce, London university, UK, 2011.
 Masters in business and administration, London university, UK, 2015.
2. Cover letter
Cover letter is at tool that help the a person in introduce yourself in a memorable and
personal way during a job application. A well cover letter helps the interviewer in expanding
your resume and take that to the guide towards the achievement of goal and objectives. Cover
letter is meant for conveying a person personality. It is first introduction that is seen by the
interviewer who is hiring an individual. And this will help the person in being remember by the
interviewer. A perfect cover letter consist of memorable introduction, Specific and organised
examples of work done by the individuals and how he has solved problems and issues (Yates III,
2017). Then it consist of concise conclusion. Here is the cover letter of myself mentioned below:
453, OXFORD STREET
GREATER LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
[ [e-mail] ]
212-366-1416
Dear, Mr. Herry William,
Human resource manager,UK
I am interesting in your advertisement for Human Resource recruitment on the official
website of your company. I have a good experience of relevant job, that make me a perfect
candidate regarding your recruitment. For this position, I have a perfect combination of
communication skill and staffing experience, which encouraged me in positive manner for the
opportunities. I attached my curriculum vita along with my documents and experience letters
for this job profile.
You need a person, who fulfil these requirement,
5

 An efficient, effective HR with good performance and communication skill.
 A person, who motivate the team members to work smartly and effectively for
company.
 Always try to maintain a positive and healthy working environment for employees in
order to increase their capabilities.
 A good motivational skill with a positive leadership style in order to achieve the
organisational goals.
 Maintain proper records of candidates with complete documents and certificates.
 A candidate should be flexible with working hours and try to complete given targets.
 Candidate also try to manage work smartly under pressure.
 Candidate must have the knowledge for this job profile including responsibilities,
capabilities and skills.
 Excellent computer knowledge required for this position.
My skills and qualification are completely matched with this job profile:
 I can maintain the records of executive performance in windows, excel sheet and I have
proper knowledge of Microsoft office.
 I have working experience in the same field and also the experience of various job role
in various organisation.
 I have learned many techniques from my past experience related with digital marketing
for companies promotion.
 I can perform my work in very well and positive manner with given time period.
 I can write effectively and communicate with a person or a candidate in very efficient
and attractive manner.
 I have positive attitude in order to learn new things and accepting challenges.
 I followed democratic leadership style at my workplace, where I perform my best for the
organisation's reputation.
 I have an ability to face new challenges and confidence to achieve targets.
 I can take responsibilities and try to complete my tasks and duties in very effective
manner.
 I have a quality to learn from my mistakes and never repeated in future, with this always
try to focus on the targets which organisation wants to achieve.
6

I consider myself to be a practical and dedicated person with excellent written and
communication skills. I assure you that the relationship with your company would be beneficial
as my work experience, educational background and qualities would make me a perfect match
for the position of Human Resource. I will defiantly try to give my best performance,if I get this
opportunity.
At the end, I would like to thank you for your attention and time, I hope for the best with
getting a chance to discuss all these things with you.
Sincerely
John Watson
TASK 2
2. Application form.
1. What facilitates you working with us?
As I studied about the company and I get impressed by that how it provides training and
development sessions to the employees working in the business environment. This helps the
employees in learning new skills and capabilities and maintaining their standards of living. I like
the way as you keep the individual goals and objectives as a priority and work towards the
achievement of their goals. As I have experienced in working as a human resources mangers so, I
can be the most efficient person for your company. I am a person who believes in taking good
opportunities for increasing my growth. And I finds that in your company. Your company will
helps me in growing my skills and capabilities and maintaining my living standards. Therefore, I
saw vacancies at your company and apply for that instantly. I have also studies about the
company in very deep and researched about the respective work or task taken in the projects. I
get impressed by this and I cannot stop myself from applying this job position. I love to be a
human resources manager because I love to interact with many people and take interviews. By
this I can able to hire new employees and candidates for your company and provides you new
talents and innovative ideas. This helps your company towards organisational success. I
7

personally like this job role and ensures you that I will apply my skills and experiences in your
company and make companies growth.
2. Tell us about how you will handle conflicts at the workplace?
As per my phase of studying, I will handle conflicts and issues in very effective manner
in the business organisation. I will make sure that all the requirements and needs of the customer
are fulfilled so that there will be no reason for conflicts. Conflicts can be of many types or in
relation with anything. So , I will first listen to the both the parties, there point of view and then
try to solve there problems or issues. As in the company there is also trade unions that helps the
employees in protecting them from exploitation and listening to their needs and demands. Also, I
will analyse the priority areas of conflict. Then I will identify the points of agreements and
disagreements and then solve the issues or conflicts. Solving conflicts will helps in maintaining
healthy employees relations and increasing employees productivity both. This will bring new
opportunities and also this will compliments individual achievements and insights. By this can
can able to solve ad handle all the conflicts if occurs in the business environment.
3. How will you Negotiate your salary?
While as per my study skills, I will negotiate my salary by knowing my value first that
how much salary or amount I deserve according to the growing rate in specific industry. Then I
will talk to recruiters and tell my experiences that how much I deserve. The I will organise my
thoughts and research one place. I will stay positive and not react negativily what the salary
company is offering.
CONCLUSION
From the above portfolio it has been concluded that CV and interviews are the major task
performed by the Human resource manager in any company. Here is my curriculum vitae and
cover letter is mentioned in about portfolio. In CV my professional and academic details are
mentioned and this provides me a direction what I needs to achieve and what is my goal. Then in
interview sessions I have to very confident because this is the main round in which individual
needs to perform confidently and efficiently. If these interview questions are prepared correctly
then there is the chance of selecting in that specific job role.
8

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Garcia, B., 2017. The Best Keywords for Resumes, Letters and Interviews: Powerful Words and
Phrases for Landing Great Jobs!. Career Planning and Adult Development
Journal, 33(3), p.55.
Torres, E. N. and Gregory, A., 2018. Hiring manager’s evaluations of asynchronous video
interviews: The role of candidate competencies, aesthetics, and resume
placement. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 75, pp.86-93.
Yates III, J. R., 2017. The cover letter.
9

10