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CV for project-based job

  • 16-02-2013 2:18pm
    #1
    breadmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,608 ✭✭✭


    I work as a civil/structural engineer and I'm trying to put together my CV. The way I see it, the only way to demonstrate the extent of my experience is through description of selected projects I've been working on to date. Would people generally agree with this?

    In the past I have always tried to structure everything along the lines of: this is what had to be done, this is how I did it, these were the fantastic results of what I did. However, when it comes to this project-based work, the results/achievements for a given project boil down to acquiring new knowledge and implementing it to complete the project - simple as! As a result, I've been finding it very hard to make this section of my CV sound "snappy". It's very flat and uninspiring and I'm struggling to find a way around it.

    Is this unavoidable? Anyone with similar experience?


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  • #2
    Atlantis50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 517 ✭✭✭Atlantis50


    Have you searched online to see how similar CVs are structured?

    The best way to do this is to search only for word documents and pdfs to find actual CVs. This is done on Google using 'filetype' as you may already know:

    filetype:doc (search term)
    filetype:pdf (search term)


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