A curriculum vitae, often shortened as CV or vita is a written overview of someone’s life’s work. More specifically, according to MSA Booklet it is described as down below:
A CV- resume writing is full summary of your engineering education and work experience. Your CV must be a complete record of your activities like work, studies, workshops or different seminars and must even include any periods of inactivity like gaps in your studies, joined any other subjects/field, year loss due to back logs, discontinued job to look after sick relative, pregnancy or any other health issues.
The CV is to be in a chronological list so it clearly shows what positions you have held and for how long. Projects, performances in the academic projects, workplace and assigned works is a big no to include in your CV. Your CV should be no more than three A4 pages but can just as well be laid out over 10+ pages, if necessary.
For each workplace provided you have to mention the following:
- The name and location of the organization including the contact detail
- Date and duration of the employment
- Your designation or position
- Your defined role and the brief description
Some Important points to focus while writing a Perfect CV for Engineers Australia:
- Career objective is mandatory and should be short and clear.
- Education Qualification should be written in ascending order.
- Work experience should be clearly described as well.
- Projects should be clearly written with their working periods.
- Your role, as well as the major role and objective of the project, should be mentioned.