Express career consultancy: basic tips to improve the curriculum

Years of experience in career consulting tell me that you have a valuable professional career. You already know what skills you want to highlight on your resume. However, he is so careful that he wants him to also look ideal. Just so that no detail escapes the recruiter's attention. How to do this?

The time has come, with the curriculum ready, to make that review. However, unlike our career consultancy, we will not initially address the information about you personally, but the part that allows the best view of your resume. It is important to emphasize that this document needs to be organized so that the reading is the best possible.

So take the time and take the time to take advantage of our express career consultancy. It will help to improve the layout of your resume.

Items such as font and spacing are on the list of what will be covered. Regardless of whether you are employed or looking for a career consultancy, it is always worth updating and leaving your resume prepared. So when the opportunity to work in Europe comes up, you don't lose sight of it.

In every career consultancy I offer, I always hear the same question: "Is there the perfect model that you should follow?"

As we always say during the career consultancy we provide, there are even good layout references, such as the one provided by Office, which is simple and objective. However, we always reinforce that you must adapt the curriculum for the country that you want to apply for vacancies. Unlike Brazil, European countries ask for less personal information and more specific details when talking about their trajectory.

What you must do is to balance, in both cases, how this will show. Even following a specific example model, the curriculum does not need and should not be too long. So, visually, your experience can determine its size, but it is the adjustments that will improve how it will look.

Can you have a page or two ?! Yes, but that will be determined by you. Every curriculum needs to be personalized.

Start by describing the most current experiences and then put the oldest ones in the description and highlight what improvements you have brought to the companies you work for. Always the professional experience that you did not have outside is competent, if you have it. Use keywords from your training area to build the description of each activity. Use the so-called bullet points, which are known, to structure the text.

5 practical and basic curriculum tips

Choose a font that the letters make the curriculum easier to read. Some examples are Helvetica, Calibri, Arial or Times New Roman. The size of them you can alternate between the titles and descriptions to give an idea of topics.

Check that the spelling of the words you used is correct. This is very important! The text editor itself usually signals when there is a typo. In addition, if the curriculum is in English and this is not a language that you are fluent in, there are also online dictionaries that can help you. The Oxford Dictionaries, in addition to giving the meaning of the word, also show how to use, in various contexts. It can help you to have no doubt about the term you wrote.

Check that all the hyperlinks in the curriculum are working well: email, LinkedIn, company name, or even other social networks that you think are relevant to the document and can add value to your profile.

Use the black color for the font. This is a tip that seems obvious, but it is always worth reinforcing. If you have a good experience, if you filled in all the information fields correctly, you can keep the color of the default font so that even then, your resume will reach the hands of the right recruiter.

The spacing between the lines of your resume can be at 1. Especially if it is large, this item can help you. In Word, just select the text to adjust, go to Paragraph and choose the ideal spacing.

Latest tips before sending the resume to that vacancy

Okay, the curriculum is just right, the way you expected. So, it's time to save the document in your computer files. Always save the résumé in Word as a .DOC to send when a vacancy arises.

Contrary to what they say, large companies have a system that reads the file using keywords that are effective when the document is saved like this. That way, when you register your resume on the company page, you will not risk missing out on a good opportunity with the PDF file.

To finish editing, change the name of the file that is open by adding your name, surname and even adding the word Curriculum. It is much easier to identify the person who sent the document to the vacancy. Imagine that the recruiter receives resumes for different vacancies every day, but that way, he can find you on the computer itself, by one of your names and the reason you are there.

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Do or do not make the curriculum in the Europass model?

You may have read somewhere that to apply for vacancies in Europe you need to have a Europass curriculum.

However, we do not recommend using it. Despite being accepted in many countries, it is a very extensive model, difficult to read and that does not sell the professional individually.

Recruiters and companies tend to be more easily disinterested in this curriculum model. At MoveUp Talents we focus on structuring the curriculum with marketing techniques. We focus on an individual experience, in order to strategically strengthen a professional brand in all stages of the selection process.

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Final tips on the content of the European curriculum

With the document ready, we highlight some details that still help you to get closer and closer to the opportunities you are looking for in Europe:

- Your resume must be adapted for each specific vacancy you are looking for. Place keywords for the role in the experiment description.

- Be chronological and organized, these little details will make it easier to read and pay attention to your information.

- Review the curriculum so that it does not contain spelling errors. Make sure, for example, the English translation is not at the level of Google Translate.

- You must promote your qualities. In other words, if you sell strategically in your information, but you should not add false information to your resume.

The curriculum is just one of the tools they must use in a selection process to get a job seeking to work in Europe. It is the gateway to new opportunities in your professional area, even if used in a country abroad.

Our goal is to help professionals prepare and improve their presentation. We focus on the entire career transition process for the European job market. If you want to be safe and confident to gain an opportunity to work in Europe, in your field of training abroad, contact us. We work with the strengthening of the professional brand. Therefore, we prepare the curriculum, cover letter and strategic LinkedIn (content and guidance on how to use it).

In addition, we offer career mentoring with market information and interview preparation in English. Has interest? Contact us: contato@moveuptalents.com.br