5 Tips for your CV design

As the application phase begins, along comes the stress to create application documents.

What do you have to take into account when designing your CV?

What information should the CV include?

How can you stand out from others with your CV?

All these questions are answered in the following guide “5 Tips for your CV design”.

The 5 Most Important Curriculum Design Tips:

CV design with “slimmed down” arrangement

The information in the CV is nowadays ordered according to importance and chronological-retrograd. This means that the current position is at the top.

This gives the advantage of showing the most important station for the staff – that is the current activity – as the first glance and does not start with the primary school or the last school leaving certificate.

Subordinate activities Commitment and further education are settled later so that too many practical experiences are not distracted by the most important ones.

The second most important aspect is that not all information has to be specified.

As soon as, for example, the primary school is more than 10 years old, it is no longer worth mentioning. Even previous internships need not be described in detail.

CV design with courage to color

The first appearance of the CV is particularly important for the staff. On average, a person looks at the application documents of each applicant for only 1-2 minutes.

In order to make yourself distinct in this short time, some color should be brought into play.

Some may be scared by this point. Courage to paint? Bright signal colors, like red and yellow, are not recommended.

Instead, we recommend quiet and simple colors which are not boring.

If you are a bit more confident with your use of color, such as a bright blue-gray, the application becomes more eye-catching.

Naturally the colors should be adapted to the application photo, in order to achieve a harmonious appearance.

Professional application photo in CV

In order to get a good professional application photo, it is worth investing in. Therefore, you should not save on the wrong end.

It is important to note that the application photo is not a passport photo.

It can include a friendly smile and attitude depending on wether or not the company is somewhat looser.

Here, too, the colors of clothing are more simple.

The background does not have to be a boring white or gray, but must be photographed quietly against another bright, blurry background, such as a window sill or similar.

In order for the applicant to be photographed in front of a window, it is recommended to hire a professional photographer who also provides the right lighting.

CV with icons

Due to the very short time taken by the staff to pass the applications, graphic representations are very handy in the curriculum vitae. (Also called icons)

Additional information such as knowledge about languages and technical programs can be packaged graphically and provide a very nice overview.

This provides the advantage that the staff can see the self-esteemed knowledge at a glance and can thus expand their image of the applicant.