Editable Professional CV Templates (Harvard, Stanford, Goldman Sachs ...)

A resume is a brief, informative document summarizing your abilities, education, and experience. It should highlight your strongest assets and differentiate you from other candidates.

Used most frequently in academic settings, a CV (curriculum vitae) is also a summary of your experience and abilities, but a CV will include more credentials relevant to academia and research, such as publications, presentations, and references.

Your cover letter is a way to introduce yourself to organizations in a narrative form that will accompany your resume. Use your cover letter to describe your qualifications as well as your interest in both the job and organization so the employer will want to interview you. Since the primary purpose of a resume and cover letter is to “market” you, always keep the organization’s hiring needs in mind.

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.