Chapter 26

Twenty-one CV examples to help you write yours

This chapter contains a selection of example CVs which should help to illustrate all the points made in this book – and which should also help you to generate lots of useful ideas for your own CV.

I start with the finished CV from our case study, Jane Bloggs, and then cover a variety of different professions, careers, sectors and circumstances.

Whilst these examples are based on real-life CVs which have helped my clients to win interviews, most of the fine details have been changed to preserve their anonymity and, in several cases, I have blended together several CVs so as to better demonstrate key principles. These CVs therefore don’t represent real people and their real careers ...

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