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How to Tailor Your CV For Engineering Roles

12-05-2022
Job seeker advice

Are you impressed with how your CV looks? Does your CV demonstrate your ambitions and skills? Have you highlighted key information that is relevant to the Engineering role you are applying for? These types of questions will help boost the look and flow of your CV. It takes skill and precision to correctly amend your CV to the engineering job role you are applying for. Your CV builds a foundation for your future interview(s).

To help assist you in your CV writing skills, we have a Careers Toolbox which demonstrates how to gain and maintain the attention of an Engineering employer or Engineering recruiter. Your experience could be outstanding and your knowledge unbeatable, but a badly written CV could hinder your opportunities to success.

Sell yourself! This is a document that is explaining YOU and YOUR ambitions. Providing an accurate CV with relevant experience that can be backed up with qualification or references. What responsibilities have you accumulated? How has your team performed under pressure with your guidance in management? Being a project manager, have you stayed on target and within budget? Share your capabilities and express your determination.

If you are applying for a CNC operator role and the employer that views your CV is likely to be a CNC Operating Supervisor who already understand the basics of your role. Try to provide details that the employer is unlikely to know, choose specific situations that demonstrated your skills and professionalism. Analytical skills, design knowledge, and/or engineering sciences and technology to name a few.

Your current job and the experiences you have gained is the most important factor of your work history. Although you may have worked within other engineering facilities, you want to demonstrate how you can be an asset to their company. Previous work experience should be documented but doesn’t need as much detail unless you are returning to the engineering industry or focusing on returning to a certain job role. If you have never worked in the engineering industry before, focus on explaining your transferable skills.

Be exact, this should be a document that is a snippet of your life not an eight-page essay that they are unlikely to read. Focus on keeping to a two-page maximum, sell yourself enough to leave them intrigued and wanting to know more.

You’ve got this!