Some Helpful Hints Peter Symons Principal. Barwon Valley School 2001

Forget your ego and ask a friend/friends to help by reading your draft (if they agree with everything they are not a real help)

Get together with friends and ask each other questions, it helps because you get nervous and it’s good for a laugh. Write down good points.

Actual C.V

Don’t leave everything to the last minute.

Put a timeline in place for you to finish things by, and allow a few days spare.

Page 1. Name, Address, Phone, DEET T0 number (if you have one)

Current position Qualifications (include any relevant training)

Professional Development attended over the past few years

Referees (up to three) with names and contact numbers, do not include written references.

Get this page 1 done and out of the way so that you have made a start.

Addressing the selection criteria

It’s a big help if you can get a copy of other CV’s even if they belong to teachers or anybody in the same field.

Note:

· the introductory sentences they use for paragraphs,

· the way they answer the questions,

· how they make points stand out.

When preparing a C.V. I make one sheet of paper for each criteria. If it says demonstrate then demonstrate!

Write the criteria along the top of the page and highlight the key words in that criteria so you keep responding to the actual question. Then when you think of a point, just add it to the page and when you come to get really serious about putting it all together you should have heaps of points. This is when you fine tune the response.

Fine Tuning

It’s sometimes good to start the answer by rephrasing part of the question, this can lead into extending your answer and starts you off on track.

You might use examples (not long lists) to prove a point required in the question

You may want to include some relevant P.D. you have attended.

Make statements, not words like: “I feel that”, “I believe”

Get your inner most thoughts about a topic across in the answer.

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