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Resumes: What You Need to Know

The resume is an opportunity to market yourself to a prospective employer. It should be succinct, target an employer's needs, and distinguish you from your competitors. Before you get started, think about your strengths, weaknesses, personal preferences, and motivations. You should also consider the company's needs, who your competition might be, and your unique skill set. The best way to convince employers that you will add value is to show them that you've done it before.

Alumni Resume Book

Our Alumni Resume Book connects you with organizations looking for talent. Visit 12twenty (our recruiting platform) and upload your resume to get started. You should complete your Profile in 12twenty by updating your Background tab which contains information about your career experience, skills, preferences and more. Ensuring your Background tab is complete and accurate will greatly improve your chance of being contacted by an organization. Looking to connect with fellow HBS alumni? Upload your resume to the Alumni Networking Resume Book to kick start those connections.

Resume Makeover Using VMock and Aspire

Gain instant feedback on your resume and LinkedIn Profile

VMock is a smart career platform that provides instant personalized feedback on your resume and LinkedIn Profile to help improve aspects like presentation, language, and skills.

VMock Smart Editor tool will enable you to:

• Receive an objective score on your resume based on recruiter criteria
• Review line-for-line targeted feedback on your resume
• Re-upload your resume up to 10 times to track improvement

Sign up using your HBS email address. Account requests are granted within 24 business hours. During holidays and winter break (December 24th – January 1st) turnaround time will be delayed until the CPD office reopens. Please note, we recommend you review your resume before considering it final.

Resumes: Sections, Templates & Examples

• Contact details - Let others know who you are and how to get in touch with you. In addition to your name, you should list your mailing address, phone number, and email address. It is expected to be found at the top of the page. No need to include it on additional pages.
• Professional history - Start with your most recent role and list in descending chronology. For each role, provide a sentence or two that describes the scope of your responsibility. Then in bullet format, provide accomplishment statements. To write an accomplishment statement, state the problem you encountered, the action you took and the result or impact of your actions. For example, "Led team in implementing a new general ledger package by providing expertise and encouragement, which contributed to a successful, on-time project completion."
• Education - Spell out your degree so it will stand out better. It is not necessary to include your GPA or GMAT score. Do not list courses. Do list any leadership roles or study abroad experiences.
• Summary/Profile - A great opportunity to tell the reader exactly what you want them to know. It should be 3-4 sentences in paragraph form following your contact information. Be careful not to load up on overused resume jargon and avoid listing previous jobs/education as it is redundant. Instead, focus on your branding statement, unique themes in your career path, and skills.
• Key skills - Listing your skills is a great way for the reader to quickly evaluate your skill set. List skills that are relevant to your next position. For each skill, you will need a proof statement in the form of an accomplishment stated in the professional experience section. A good way to set up this section is in 2 or 3 columns with 3-4 skills in each column. The heading could be "Key Areas of Expertise" or "Core Competencies".
• Personal/Interests - Only include if it helps tell your story.
• Additional roles - If you participate in organizations outside of your professional employment, you may list these in a separate section. Headings are typically "Volunteer Leadership Roles" or "Community Service".
• Licenses and Professional Certifications - If you possess a license or certification, these should be called out in a separate section.
• Objective - No longer in style. Do not include in your resume.
• References available upon request - No longer in style. Do not include in your resume.
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Chronological - This is the most commonly used layout. Recommended for a mostly consistent record of employment showing progression/growth from position to position. Not recommended for gaps in employment dates, those out of job market for some time, or changing careers.

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Streamlined Chronological - This layout also shows progression from one job to the next, but does not include extra sections such as Summary/Profile or Areas of Expertise. Recommended for recent alumni.

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Chronological/Functional Hybrid Resume - In this layout, you can highlight your employment history in a straight chronological manner, but also make it immediately clear you have filled a variety of roles that use different but related skill sets. This is useful to provide a few accomplishments in the beginning to show a theme. Each role would also have specific accomplishment statements.

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Cover Letter Writing

It is essential to send a cover letter with your resume to provide a recruiter with insight into your qualifications, experience, and motivation for seeking a position. The letter also conveys your personal communication style, tone, and professionalism. An effective employment letter should:

• Be targeted and personalized
• State why you are interested in the company
• Explain how you can fill a need
• Convey your enthusiasm about the opportunity
• Suggest next steps for communication and action

Guidelines & Examples

Investigate your target company. What is the company's "breaking news?" What drives their business? What are their greatest challenges and opportunities? How can you contribute? eBaker can help with your research.

Outline your objectives using relevant information that attracts the attention of the reader.

• Salutation Address the letter to a specific person. Capture the reader's attention and briefly introduce yourself. Mention the referral/company contact, if applicable. State the purpose of your letter.
• Body Describe relevant information you discovered about the company. Discuss the position offered or the position you are looking for. Detail how your skills will benefit the company.
• Closing Convey your enthusiasm. Anticipate response.

Pay close attention to sentence structure, spelling, and punctuation. Always print your letter to check for typographical errors. Have a friend, colleague, or family member review your letter whenever possible.

Cover letters are the place to briefly and directly address the gap in your career. For example, "I am returning to the workforce after a period of raising children." Then address your strengths, qualifications and goals. Emphasize your excitement and preparedness to re-enter the workforce now.

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Branding You

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A concise, visually appealing resume will make a stronger impression than a dense, text-laden document. Respect page margins and properly space the text. Learn to appreciate the value of "white space." Limit a resume to one or two pages but not one and ¼. Ensure content is balanced on both pages. A CV is typically longer because it includes additional sections such as publications and research.

Use Parallel Construction

Select a consistent order of information, format, and spacing. If one experience starts with a brief overview followed by bullet points, subsequent experiences should follow a similar form. Parallel construction—including the use of action verbs (pdf) (login required) to start all phrases—greatly enhances a resume's readability.

Always Proofread

Pay close attention to margin alignment, spelling, punctuation, and dates. Read your resume backward to check for typographical errors. (You will focus on individual words, rather than the meaning of the text.) Better yet, have a friend, colleague, or family member review your resume.

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4 free CV templates used by Harvard and McKinsey + tips for Danish CV

Here at Graduateships we have a lot of empathy for all of you who need to get a new job because of COVID-19 or graduates looking for your first job. To make things a little bit easier, we decided to share a number of templates and advice for how to make the best CV and cover letter. We also added an overview of all the interviews we did with top company recruiters. This should help you create the perfect CV template fitted for the Danish market especially as a graduate.

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• Resume.io is one of the best CV builders out there with 25+ easy-to-use templates to choose from. Create a modern CV that gets you noticed! Follow this link and try it for free!

CV Templates for the Danish market

How long will a recruiter spend looking at your CV? You might spend hours filling in your Danish CV template, but recruiters often have piles of CV letters to weed through. One study from 2012 found that recruiters look at your resume for six seconds .

If you make critical errors when writing your CV, you’ll be pushed to the bottom of potential candidates.

Your CV needs to be professional, and only creative to that extend that it matches the job position. You need to make your expertise and skills standout so that you have a chance to be interviewed.

But first, we have taken examples from the best universities and companies in the world (Harvard, Stanford, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey & Co) and shared their CV templates with you! Click the images to download the template.

Mads Faurholt (MIT, McKinsey Template)

Recommendations

• Use the words your target company is looking for
• Show specific number and/or results
• Don’t underestimate the small stories
• Show that other people think you are great

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Goldman Sachs

• Do your research. You should research the company you’re sending your CV to. So that you can customize your CV template. Write down the qualities and credentials that the job demands so that you can add these to your CV.
• Choose the proper format. You have seconds to make a good first impression. It’s important to arrange your resume with your key information up top, including experience and educational information.
• Focus on uniqueness. You’re unique, and it’s important to make this uniqueness shine in your CV. If you speak another language, volunteer or do something else that makes you unique, include it in your resume.
• Far too many people download a Danish CV template, fill in their information and never take the time to proofread. Proofreading helps you find critical errors and eliminate them.
• Read Goldman Sachs’ full list of recommendations.

• Correct top errors. Spelling, grammar, passive language, missing phone and mail and lack of demonstrating results are the top errors Harvard recommends correcting.
• Language should be specific. Businesses need to know what hiring you will do for them . You want to articulate your strengths and explain how you helped other companies find success.
• Use order of importance. When making a list of headings, such as your experience , make sure that you sit down and determine the order of importance for each header. The most important information should be listed first.
• Remain professional. You shouldn’t abbreviate, include gender, a picture, age or use any form of slang or colloquialisms.
• Read Harvard’s full list of recommendations.

• Remove old, irrelevant jobs. You may want to add every job you’ve ever had to your CV template, but you don’t need to include jobs that are irrelevant or old unless they’re the only jobs that you’ve had.
• List your education properly. Your education should be listed in reverse chronological order. If you’ll be graduating soon, be sure to list your anticipated degree and date of graduation.
• Highlight key skills. You should highlight key skills that relate to the position you’re hoping to interview for in the future.
• Read Stanford’s full list of recommendations.

The importance of perfect

Your CV opens the door to a potential career. You can use a general CV template to send to recruiter, but it’s important to personalize your CV for each position. Since you have only seconds to impress a potential employer, you may want to reorder your experience or skills so that the employer sees the education, experience and skills they’re looking for higher up on your CV.

Small changes can mean the difference between getting interviewed or never hearing back from a potential employer. 

Therefore it is clear, that you need to optimize every bit. To help you with that, Graduateships talked to a number of recruiters to gain some insight on how to best write a strong CV for the Danish market.

Ex-recruiters for top companies on how to write a strong CV for the Danish market

One of the most prominent people who participated in our interviews was former director of the Novo Nordisk graduate programme. Read beneath her tips: 

• Use a professional-looking gmail, outlook, or personal domain email address. Delete your hotmail with extreme prejudice.
• Don’t put an objective section or summary. It’ll be skipped, and it’s space that can be used better
• Unless you have 20+ years’ experience, make it 1 page. You can do it
• Don’t put your full address. “City, State” is enough.
• Name your resume “​FirstName LastName Resume” and that’s it. Never submit it with “(Project Management)” or “Final” or “2018” or literally anything else in the file name.
• If emailing your resume, always submit it as a PDF, never as a Word doc. You never know how wonky a Word doc will look on someone else’s machine. If uploading to an online application that uses resume parsing software, you can upload the Word doc as well or if it’s required to do so.
• Try to read it in 10 seconds or less and see what you take away from it. That’s about the initial screen time before someone makes an initial up/down decision, so you’ll want to examine it from that perspective.
• Interests are important because it gives the interviewer something to connect with you on, and it makes you more than just a faceless resume. If you put Seinfeld, I promise someone will ask you what your favorite episode of Seinfeld is (mine’s the Soup Nazi).

Do not just apply these tips for writing your cv and cover letter, we have plenty of more tips from recruiters. Graduateships have been sitting down with a dozen of talent managers from some of the biggest graduate companies in Denmark. Here, they give insights on what things to focus upon to achieve the results you want.

We created a list of the recruiters we talked to which you can find below. 

If you’re a graduate, whether from Denmark or international, it can give an edge to your application if you know the tweaks, do’s and don’ts for your cv, which was what we aimed to give. Hopefully, you will find the interviews as interesting as we did creating them. Best of luck with your applications!

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