Students planning to pursue their study abroad must have an excellent academic CV. It should be able to reflect your personality as a whole and help you present yourself to an academic audience.
Making a good academic CV is essential because it gives the first impression of you as an individual and an academic. Academic committees reject many of the applications based on their CVs. Therefore, one must be extra careful when making a CV for colleges abroad.
You may follow the advice and tips in this link while making your academic CV. But along with that, here are some pro tips:
You must restrict your CV to a maximum of 2 pages—but always follow the guidelines on the application website.
Your CV has to be crisp.
You need to use bullet points and avoid writing lengthy sentences.
It should feel interesting. If you have done the same things as a thousand others, then your CV does not serve the limelight.
It should not look haphazard. It must be formatted appropriately and chronologically arranged, and accomplishments and awards must be meticulously highlighted.
You may bold some text within the CV to ensure readers can directly sift through them.
Try to use active voice. It is important to remember that passive voice is generally difficult to read. In all your writings, you must learn to use active voice.
It has to be grammatically sound. Use Grammarly.com or other services that you may deem fit.
Format your CV according to the guidelines provided by the applying university. This is most important. When preparing a generic CV, we tend to use it everywhere without reading the guidelines. You should avoid doing that.
These generic tips from above and these pro tips will be able to help you create a good CV.
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