Career Handbook

The idea of a Creative Commons Career Handbook was born while working in a Career Center in a European university. The general problem with universities in Europe is that resources are too limited to create valuable resources for students and others. The vision I have with this handbook is that it will evolve in a reference for students, but also for more experienced professionals who need to write cover letters and update their CVs.

= Skills = Career_Handbook/Skills

Networking
= Application process = Career_Handbook/Application_process

Reading job advertisements
= Application tools = Career_Handbook/Application_tools

Curriculum Vitae
In most European countries a Curriculum Vitae is used instead of a [resume], which is more common in North America.

Structure of a CV Resume Header Goals and Objective Resume Header
 * Name (including gender, age, and nationality)
 * Address (including phone and email)

Resume Body-- Resume Body--
 * Details of Work experience
 * Education
 * Skills possessed
 * Brief Description of Work Experience
 * Significant Achievements

Resume Footer Resume Footer
 * Other experience
 * Personnel Details (Languages know,DOB,)
 * Hobbies

How to use action verbs
Action verbs can be used to stress the skills you possess and want to bring to the attention of the recruiter. Action verbs can best be used at the beginning of a sentence, since they get the most attention at that place.

How to build a good CV-sentence?

= Appendix = Career_Handbook/Appendix

Action verbs
Action verbs can be used in [CVs], [resumes] and [letters]. On this page you find a list of action verbs organized by the type of skill that the action verb signals.

Administrative skills
 * approved
 * arranged
 * catalogued

Communication skills
 * addressed
 * advertised
 * edited