Chapter 12

Other details

The Other details section is somewhat of a mixed bag. Use it to make mention of any bits and pieces that don’t readily fit into other sections or which aren’t sufficiently important to merit inclusion within other sections.

Driving licence

Details of your driving licence, if you have one, should always be included on your CV, even if your licence isn’t ‘clean’. Under normal circumstances you can describe it as being ‘Full/Clean’ or ‘Provisional/Clean’. However if, you have any points on your licence, then simply describe it as ‘Full’ (or ‘Provisional’ if applicable). It’s obviously going to be rather negative to list the number of points you have (as some people do). And, naturally, if you’ve been banned then you ...

Get The CV Book, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.