A good CV writing Sample in Kenya is usually the same like everywhere else. The key areas of a CV are common worldwide. It’s only in the USA where they will call it Resume writing sample US, otherwise all the different sections are all the same. You can get your CV written in Nairobi Kenya in 1 day by professional CV writers in the capital.
6 Tips to writing a Good CV Sample in Kenya
You can request for a good cv writing sample to see how best it can be done. A cv sample basically has several mandatory sections which describe you as a person and your professional and academic qualifications. The various sections of a good Kenyan cv sample includes:
When you want to write a good CV sample in Kenya, you need to:
- Write the personal information
- Indicate your career goal on CV sample
- Write your educational qualifications
- Write your work experience
- Indicate your skills and attributes
- Write a list of professional referees
1. Personal Information:
This section deals with your particulars as a person and include your name, your mailing address, your telephone numbers, and your email address. Most people prefer to include a passport size photo or a full size photo for modelling jobs etc. I would say go for it, it gives your cv some colour and a face. You may however not include a photo if you this it could be used to discriminate you on basis of race or colour.
2. Career Goal:
This is like your career plan for the short and long term. It’s a series of 1 or 2 sentences which state where you would like to work, as who and your career growth path in the same organisation. Don’t fail to include your contribution to your employers business goals, otherwise you may seem to be only concerned about yourself.
3. Educational Qualifications:
In this section, you will state your academic qualifications starting from your most recent going back to your earliest. Remember to include the years studied for each certificate like KCSE, KCPE, College Diploma, University degree programme or post university degree. It is good practice to indicate the courses you did in university or college diploma that relate to the type of job you are applying for. If you want to brag about your good grades in college, this is the place. It is also ok to shy away from putting down your grades on your cv if they seem friendly to gravity and tend southwards.
4. Work Experience:
In your work experience, you will need to indicate places you have worked in in a chronological manner starting with the latest. You will indicate the name of company, the position held and the duration. When indicating the roles in your previous jobs, you need to give the responsibilities some subtitles like Conference organisation; Organised the World Tourism Day conference in Nairobi with total participants of 500 and from over 50 countries. Or you can write something like this. Fundraising; Developed proposals for funding of Human Rights awareness campaign amounting to usd 250,000 and targeted more than 20 communities in the larger Uasin Gishu County. Notice that these two examples are indicating figures and numbers so as to have an impact on the size of your contribution and achievements. Your work experience section of your cv should be used to showcase your personal or team achievements as the example given above.
5. Skills and Attributes:
These are a set of qualities and attributes that you possess that make you more suitable for the profession that you do. For example a fundraising professional should have ‘Good Writing Skills and Persuasion skills’. A marketer will also have good negotiation skills and so on. You need to list in bullets, any skill that you know you possess that will help you in achieving your employment targets. Don’t be like the manager who indicated that he has a skill of ‘putting people in their place’ and wondered why they were never called to the interview despite their excellent employment record. The employer simply thought tyrants belonged elsewhere and not his company.
6. Referees:
You need to indicate atleast three referees and give their full names, addresses, telephone numbers and emails. These are people that know you well and that have been your direct bosses or managers in your previous places of work or in university or college. A relative will not do since they will always give me excellent ratings even if they know, the only time they see me is when I need a loan from them.
You can get in touch with the CV Makers company to make your cv today. I have previously used them and they do a wonderful job in matching work experience and education to new job requirements. The CV they made for me was concise and straight to the point and I got a job on my second Interview. The guy to talk to is Robert and I found him to be very helpful and very much on point. He actually made my CV in an afternoon. His number was 0722661827 (I hope he has retained it since-its been 2 years now) and email was [email protected]