How to Write the Perfect CV如何撰寫完美的簡歷

Imagine meeting a stranger at a party. What makes for a successful encounter？ Lesson one is to heed the wisdom of a shampoo commercial from the 1980s： you never get a second chance to make a first impression. Lesson two is to remember that you do not need to wear a beret or a fur stole in order to stand out. Lesson three is not to forget that what you leave out matters as much as what you say.

想象你在聚會上遇到一個陌生人。如何制造一次成功的邂逅？第一：可以看下80年代洗發水廣告所體現的智慧：你不會有第二次機會給人留下第一印象。第二：記住，顯得與眾不同未必需要戴貝雷帽或毛皮披肩。第三：不要忘記，未說出口的內容和說出口的言語同樣重要。

These same principles， it turns out， apply to writing a CV. A resume is not a list of every job you ever had. It is not your autobiography. It is， like that haircare advert， a marketing tool. Your audience is made up of recruiters and hiring managers. Like cocktail-party guests， they do not take a long time to decide if they want to keep talking. According to one std74bec88687f0cc821de175b6d3495cb626c6a7ca6316deb0287892662021f43udy， such professionals spend an average of 7.4 seconds skimming a job application. Here are a few tips on how best to ensure that these seconds count.

實際上，以上這些原則同樣適用于簡歷撰寫。簡歷不應該簡單列出你曾從事過的所有工作，也不應該像自傳那樣詳盡記錄個人生活和職業經歷的所有細節。簡歷就像那個洗發水廣告一樣，是營銷工具，受眾群體是招聘人員或招聘經理。就好比雞尾酒會上的賓客，他們花不了多長時間就能決定是否要繼續跟你交談。研究顯示，這類專業招聘人員瀏覽一份簡歷平均只用7.4秒。本文提供一些訣竅，讓你的簡歷在短短的幾秒內就能抓住對方的注意力。

The CV’s number-one task is not to put the reader off1. If you are thinking of adding a watermark with your initials think again： you are trying too hard. Use a clean， simple format and avoid fancy fonts （Arial or Helvetica are fine： Century Gothic is not）.

簡歷的首要任務是不要讓招聘人員失去瀏覽的興趣。要是考慮在簡歷上加上帶有你名字縮寫的水印，那請三思：這么做有些過了。簡歷排版應整潔、簡單，不要用花哨的字體（Arial或Helvetica可以接受，但Century Gothic不行）。

Adding colour does not mean using a teal background. Nor does it mean using purple prose2. Cliché can be a reason you are passed over for an interview. So can typos; spell-check and proofread over and over. You would be surprised how often someone forgets to include their name and contact details. Dispense with hackneyed descriptors （“cultivated and passionate professional！”， “a keen eye for detail”）—facts should speak for themselves. But not all facts. You may think including your ranking on “Over-Watch3” is a quirky way to illustrate how quick you are on your feet4. A recruiter may conclude that it shows you spend hours on the sofa tethered to a gaming console.

增強簡歷的吸引力并不意味著要使用藍綠色背景或過于華麗夸張的語言。陳詞濫調可能會讓你失去面試機會。錯別字同樣可能，因此要一遍遍地進行拼寫檢查和校對。你會驚訝地發現，經常有人忘記寫上他們的姓名和聯系方式。此外，避免使用陳腐的表達（例如“受過教育、充滿激情的專業人士！”“注重細節”），要讓事實說明一切，但并非所有的事實都適合在簡歷中體現出來，比如：你也許以為在簡歷上加上“守望先鋒”游戲中的排名是展現自己靈敏度的一種獨特方式，但招聘人員可能會由此推斷你花了大量時間坐在沙發上玩游戲，無法自拔。

Do not hammer your CV out in an hour—take your time to polish it. Condense， filter and distil until what you are left with captures the essence of you. Anyone’s CV can fit on a page， even if you have held residencies in the world’s eight top hospitals or are Christine Lagarde5. Forget the personal statement—no one has time for that. If you spent three weeks in the summer， when you were 17 keeping the books in your uncle’s hardware store， no one needs to know that if you are now over the age of 25. The older you get， the more you should prioritize work experience over education.

不要倉促地在一小時內就把簡歷完成，要花時間潤色打磨。精簡、過濾、提煉，直到這份簡歷能體現你最重要的特點。任何人的簡歷都可以精簡到一頁紙上，即使在世界上排名前八的醫院里有過住院醫生的經歷，或者像克里斯蒂娜·拉加德這樣的知名人士，簡歷都可以非常簡潔。不要進行個人陳述，沒人有時間去讀那個。如果你現在已經過了25歲，那就沒必要讓人知道你17歲那年夏天在叔叔的五金店幫忙做賬，做了三周時間。年齡越大，就越應該把重點放到工作經驗而非教育背景上。

Tailor your resume for every application by making the relevant tweaks and highlighting different areas. Otherwise you are like the bore who tells the same story to every person he meets. Not everyone—and not every recruiter—is interested in the same things. If you can quantify an accomplishment， do. A second-year law student who just completed his summer internship having worked on six M&A6 deals？ Put that in.

根據申請的具體職位和要求，對簡歷進行適當的修改和調整，突出那些與你申請的職位最相關的經歷和成就。否則，你就像個討厭鬼，對每個遇到的人講同樣的故事。并不是每個人，包括每個招聘人員，都對相同的事情感興趣。如果能量化你的成就，那就量化。比如，一個二年級法學專業學生，剛剛完成夏季實習，期間參與了六個并購交易？在簡歷中寫上吧。

Reasonable gaps in a resume are not cause for concern. Life happens and sometimes people take timmRqnjhb0zijAY/ZPiKAYSrw5aiTBVcdu3z41wqOezDA=e off; you do not have to explain that you spent three months between jobs hiking around Machu Picchu7 to clear your head and recharge your batteries. A ten-year gap from the workforce may be another matter. So might constant job-switching， which is as much of a red flag to recruiters as admitting to never having had a long-term relationship might be to a stranger at a party. But if this describes your work history then you probably have bigger problems that a CV alone， no matter how masterful， will not fix.

個人簡歷上出現一些合理的職業空白期無傷大雅。生活中會發生各種事情，有時候人們需要休息一段時間。你不需要詳細解釋你在兩份工作之間的三個月里去馬丘比丘徒步旅行是為了理清思緒和充電。長達十年的職業空白期恐怕就是另外一回事了。頻繁更換工作在招聘人員眼中可能同樣是一個警示信號。這就好比在社交聚會上向一個陌生人坦白自己從未有過長期穩定的戀愛關系。但如果你的工作履歷就是這樣的，你將會面臨更大的問題，那么無論你的簡歷寫得有多好，都不足以解決這些問題。

Once you have sent your application， refrain from emailing prospective employers to see if they received it. You risk coming across as that annoying person， who texts to see if their previous texts have got through.

一旦你發送了求職申請，不要發電子郵件詢問對方是否已收到。你可能會給人留下煩人的印象，就像有人發消息確認之前的消息對方是否收到。

In his commencement address at Kenyon College in 2005， David Foster Wallace， an American novelist， used the metaphor of fish oblivious to the element surrounding them in order to point to the dangers of the “natural， hard-wired， default setting which is to be deeply and literally self-centered”. Your life， he implied， should illustrate an acute awareness of the outside world. So should your CV. Drafting a presentation of your skills and achievements will inevitably reflect the sovereignty and self-absorption of your “skull-sized kingdom8”， as Wallace described it. So as you launch yourself into the job market follow his counsel to young graduates to try always to be aware of their place in the greater scheme of things： “This is water... this is water.9”

2005年，在凱尼恩學院的畢業典禮演講中，美國小說家戴維·福斯特·華萊士用魚兒對自己周圍環境渾然不覺作隱喻，闡述了人們“與生俱來、根深蒂固的思維模式，即確確實實地深度以自我為中心”，并指出其危險性。他強調，你的生活應該展現出對周圍世界的敏銳覺知。你的簡歷也應該這樣。正如華萊士所描述的那樣，在自我介紹技能和成就時會不可避免地反映出你“大腦王國”的自主和自賞。因此，當你投身于職場時，遵循華萊士對年輕畢業生的建議，要盡可能始終注意個人在大局中的位置：“這是水……這是水?！?/p>

1 put sb off （sth/sb）使反感。 2 purple prose紫色辭藻，往往指過度修飾、夸張華麗，缺乏簡潔性和直接性的語言風格。 3一款團隊基礎的射擊游戲。 4 quick on one’s feet指非常靈活敏捷。

5法國知名律師和政治家，曾擔任國際貨幣基金組織（IMF）總裁，現任歐洲中央銀行行長。 6 Mergers and Acquisitions的縮寫，指公司之間通過合并（merger）或收購（acquisition）的方式進行整合的商業活動。

7位于秘魯南部安第斯山脈的一個歷史遺址，被認為是印加帝國在15世紀建造的一個城市。這個遺址坐落在海拔約2430米的山頂上，是世界上最著名的考古遺址之一。在現代，徒步前往馬丘比丘成為了一種流行的旅行和探險活動。

8 skull-sized kingdom作家戴維·福斯特·華萊士用這個形象的比喻來表達一個觀點：每個人的思想和感知都局限于他們自己的腦袋，就像一個人的意識是統治著他們自己的小王國一樣，這個王國的大小僅限于他們的頭骨（skull）所能包含的范圍，在這個王國內，個體是唯一的統治者，他們的理解和感受構成了他們體驗世界的全部基礎。 9出自華萊士2005年在凱尼恩學院（Kenyon College）畢業典禮上的演講。他與聽眾分享了一個關于魚和水的寓言故事，來闡述一個更廣泛的觀點：即我們常常對自己所處環境的本質視而不見。華萊士以此鼓勵人們從自我中心的生活方式中覺醒，學會觀察和欣賞我們周圍的世界及事物，有意識地去認識和理解我們生活中的基本現實。