Presenting Your CV

Make sure it is formatted correctly (same font throughout - Arial, Verdana), Headings in Bold 12pt, Subheadings in Bold and Italic 11pt and body text 10pt. Avoid multiple colours (Monochrome Dark grey/Black OK) and don't put your picture on it. People like conformity and are resistant to change unless it is very beneficial. Try and keep your CV to two pages in length and put publications / abstract etc. at the end in an appendix. This allows you to get the information in you want, yet still keep the main body of the CV in a manageable format. I have put together a couple of CV templates in the next section which you can download as word documents and modify as you see fit.