NAME: ADDRESS: PHONE:

Your full name Your current residential address Home number Business number Optional Information Fax number Mobile number Email address (Remember to differentiate between AH and BH)

DATE OF BIRTH:

This is optional (but is used as an identifier if more than one candidate has the same name)

YEAR COMMENCED IN IT: EDUCATION: starting year to ending year educational institution course completed relevant to your work history (dont go into too much detail, include the course title and where appropriate the institute you completed your training at)

TRAINING COURSES:

MEMBERSHIPS: OTHER SKILLS/INTERESTS: MAJOR STRENGTHS:

TECHNICAL SUMMARY The categories below can be used as a guide and can be expanded to include any other relevant categories relating to your experience and background. Choose or add others that are suitable to your needs. HARDWARE:

OPERATING SYSTEMS:

SOFTWARE:

COMMUNICATIONS:

LAN:

CASE:

METHODOLOGIES:

TECHNICAL SUMMARY (alternative format) An alternative format to the previous technical summary is a table format. You can include all relevant categories along with how you rate your skills, number of years used and the year you last used it. Remember if you are rating your skills on a scale, it is important that you explain what the scale means. SKILL HARDWARE List hardware used Rate your No. of years Year last used skills from 1- experience 10 - 10 being excellent Rating 1-10 Years Exp last used

OPERATING SYSTEMS

SOFTWARE

As per the previous page, you would include relevant categories to your experience.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Start Date to End Date Position Held: Environment: COMPANY NAME Job Title include H/W, O/S, S/W etc used in this position.

Give a brief explanation of the company and project or environment worked on. This will indicate the size and magnitude of the project/environment you are involved in. Keep this brief and to the point. Avoid internal terminology and acronyms, these are meaningless outside of the organisation. It should be clear, simple and precise. Do not waffle and add only details which are relevant to YOU - not to the team or others around you. Ask yourself the following questions to help you prepare your resume: did you work as part of a team or on your own did you deal with customers/users; how regularly what were your major responsibilities were you involved in decision making did you have reporting responsibilities, if so, what were they? did you lead a team, if so, how many people reported to you?

Along with the above questions, you should also ask yourself questions relevant to your skill level. Eg for an Analyst Programmer: what % of your role involved coding? were you involved in maintenance/development/both? what % of your role did you have different responsibilities, what were they? In the third person and past tense eg While with [company name], Mr Brown was responsible for the following: list main responsibilities and duties in point form ensure if the point goes over more than one line, the text is wrapped to line up with the indent. Major achievements should also be included, but these must be demonstrated.

Start Date to End Date Position Held: Environment:

COMPANY NAME Job Title

This position is the position held prior to commencing the one above. comments as a guideline.

Use the above

REFERENCES

A list of referees should be included at the end of your resume. The referees should be your immediate supervisor and should be no more than 4 years old - preferably they should be people you reported to in the last 2 years. When including referees, you need to detail the referees name, title, company name, contact phone number and your reporting relationship.