How to prepare a C.V.

A CV is a Curriculum Vitae. This Latin expression means "information about your skills and qualification, that is, everything you have studied and achieved".

Americans use a similar document: they call it "résumé". What do these documents include? In a CV you must write relevant information about you as a person. That is age, marital status, adress, telephone number. Apart from this, you must also include details about you as professional, sataying you degree, experience, courses for professional improvement, and general qualifications such as other laguages of which you have good knowledge and wheter you can use a computer. The way you irganise all this information is very important, because your prospective employers will get an idea of you through this document, in many cases before meeting you in person.