CV Writing for IT Technicians

by Nick J Alexander

When it comes to representing themselves on paper most IT Technicians are generally poor. There is too much concentration on the bits and bytes stuff and far too little on the person, their key competencies, directly relevant experience and scale and scope indicators. In addition most CV’s are badly laid out and confusing to the reader. To succeed you must make life easy for the recruiter!

There is absolutely no doubt that to be an IT Technician you need to be clever. There are operating systems, methodologies, frameworks, dynamic applications, programming languages, visual tools, components. The list goes on.

CV reading is generally not a particularly stimulating task. An agency recruiter spends a very considerable amount of time doing nothing else because that’s what they’re paid to do. Wrong! They’re paid to find a winning candidate for the position their company is being paid to fill.

TO WIN, YOU NEED TO BE IN CONTROL and getting a job today generally involves sending in your CV, possibly psychological testing and interviews. THE ONLY part of this process that YOU CAN CONTROL is the content of your CV. At every other stage the employer is in control. BUT you can influence their level of control by making certain that your CV and covering letter are Attention Grabbing, Easy to Read, Persuasive and Directly Relevant.

This book shows you how to write a clean, clear, brief and direct CV with no vague statements but hard-facts to put you into the “contact for interview” list!