{"id":18117,"date":"2023-10-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empire-group.ap.applyflow.com\/whats-the-key-to-a-brilliant-cv\/"},"modified":"2023-10-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T00:00:00","slug":"whats-the-key-to-a-brilliant-cv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/whats-the-key-to-a-brilliant-cv\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the key to a brilliant CV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>\u200b<span spantype=\"color\" >Well at least in the legal industry, the answer is simple;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span spantype=\"color\" >(1) State your experience (be sure to include exact dates including month &amp; year in each position, give a description of the firm for context if necessary)<\/span><br \/><span spantype=\"color\" >(2) Detail your major experience\/transactions\/matters (include all the relevant information, including, what your role\/responsibility was on the matter\/file, what exact tasks you performed, if you did something particularly noteworthy etc, who you reported to and how closely you worked together &amp; the outcome)<\/span><br \/><span spantype=\"color\" >(3) Don&#8217;t omit any short stints just because they didn&#8217;t work out, better to include some info on why it was a shorter employment period, i.e. a contract, &amp; if you have had several moves in a short time, you can add a succinct sentence describing why in each case (i.e. was headhunted, got an excellent offer, or conversely, left because of high turnover or lack of mentoring etc)<\/span><br \/><span spantype=\"color\" >(4) Include a section on business development (i.e. attended industry functions, wrote a blog, article etc)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span spantype=\"color\" >Don&#8217;t worry about quantity of information, just be concerned with quality of information &amp; make sure you can extrapolate on each point in your CV during interview.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bWell at least in the legal industry, the answer is simple; (1) State your experience (be sure to include exact dates including month &amp; year in each position, give a description of the firm for context if necessary)(2) Detail your major experience\/transactions\/matters (include all the relevant information, including, what your role\/responsibility was on the matter\/file,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/18118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}