Ideas to Modify Your CV and Appeal Your Ability
- What points does HR team focus when they review your CV?
1. To evaluate if you are a worth candidate to join this company
→ Show your work experiences, skills, technologies, certifications and personality
2. Your motivation and passion against working at this company
→ Clarify the purpose of your application. Why do you wish to enter this company?
3. To recognize the length of contribution you may provide to this company
→ Show the length of your past work experiences (remaining more than 2 years at one
company is preferred)
- How can you improve your CV?
① Summarize your past experience and skill
◆Your role and responsibility
Please clarify your position, role, and the term you handled. If you took multiple roles
(for example; manager and developer), please list responsibilities and tasks of each of
them.
Example: If your roles are manager and developer
- As a Manager: April 2018 to present
1. Managing the team of 5 engineers (Forntend/backend developer, QA, devops
engineer, performance tester). Responsible for the daily supervision of the
team’s activities, the coordination of the daily work distribution, interviews,
performance review meetings, etc.
2. Project management: communication with the customer, discussion of the
development plan, report of the work done (daily and weekly reports),
estimation.
- As a Senior Developer: June 2016 to present
1. Software development, design architecture, RestAPI design and development,
writing unit tests, code review, architecture review, writing documentation
Database architecture development (SQL, NoSQL)
◆Your achievements
Please mention what achievement you have obtained during your work. Please also
appeal; what kind of projects were you involved? what was the difficulty in your role?
How did you overcome? What kind of contribution did you make at last?
Example: Show that you were promoted!
Achievements:
I was promoted to the role of team leader as well as the manager of the support
process.
Also, worked on optimizing and improving of the system performance. Within 1
months, increased performance by times, increasing the number of simultaneous
users of the system from 2,000 to 15,000.
In addition, I developed a comprehensive logging system, including logging of
HTTP requests, database requests, errors on the server side, as well as on the
client side (in the browser), used to investigate the customer's support requests.
◆Software you developed / Technologies you are familiar with
Please mention what software you developed in the company. Please explain the usage
and its mail goal. Please also show what technologies you optimized to develop.
Example: If you are a software developer
Software:
Developed the desktop app of educational service. Instructors can create and
analyze the repot which students had submitted. It is widely used in eastern
Europe and proceeding the smooth communication between instructors and
students.
Technologies:
Java: Spring, Hibernate
PHP: Laravel, Symfony
JavaScript: NodeJS, AngularJS, JQuery
Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis
Other: Git, AWS webservices
JavaScript: NodeJS, AngularJS, JQuery
Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis
Other: Git, AWS webservices
◆Certification
If you owe any business-related certification, please mention on your CV.
Example:
Java SE 8 Programmer Certification
ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications Board
MBA - Master of Business Administration
TOEIC 890
◆Education
As for the education background, please show your 1. University name 2. Major 3. Type
of the degree 4. Entrance/graduation month and year.
Example: If your major is Computer Science
Waseda University
Bachelor’s degree of Computer Science
April 2007 – March 2011
