As the right CV (Curriculum Vitae) is the first step in the door of your dream job, when writing a CV, it is therefore important to keep in mind that your CV is the first representation of who you are, that the interviewer will see. So you’ll agree with me that the importance of having it the right way cannot be overemphasized. Tips for A Top Notch CV: Fonts should be eye-friendly and consistent: A recruiter would not keep reading through a CV that’s causing eye pain. Some CVs do. You keep wondering why the candidate had to use such font at such big size. Also, you find CVs with about 4 fonts on one CV. Not good, stop it. If you must use more than 1 font, ensure consistency. Use one for headings, another for the body etc... Don’t just write with any that pleases you in a section. Two fonts in all are enough. CV Alignment: How’s the alignment on your CV? Is it properly justified, aligned left/right etc. as it should? Spacing: Do not leave so much space in between ju...

In the last couple of years, there has been so much talk about the high rate of unemployment. Graduates are not getting jobs again like it used to be in the good old days of our fathers and mothers. A big reason why a lot of people are not getting the few available jobs is that they show up for interviews in the most unprepared ways ever. The first step to getting a job is applying. Let’s assume you made it through application stage (correct CV and all: a story for another day), the next stage is the interview stage. The question is, “are you interview ready?”  Truth is, a lot of job seekers are not! So how do you secure the job? No you won’t. From Interview to interviews;  parents and friends can’t seem to understand why you have no job yet. A colleague recently interviewed a candidate over the phone and her comment was that the candidate seemed so indifferent and like she was disturbing him. I have interviewed candidates who have burst into tears during int...