Impactful Job Applications: CV and Application Writing Workshop
Keeping your CV up to date and improving your application writing skills supports the process of getting a new job. This page provides some helpful reading and resources to help you do so.
We recommend you explore coaching and mentoring at Imperial. These individual relationships allow you to focus on your confidence and development, evidencing why you are the best person for the job.
Our Career Moves offering will also help you put together your CV and application. It provides benefits related to career moves you may have taken and some reflection on skills, interests, and attributes.
We also offer a two-hour workshop that focuses on application and CV writing. During this interactive workshop, you will:
- Explore your skills and accomplishments
- Learn how to write a CV in a way that is relevant and impactful
- Get top tips for application forms and cover letters
- Share and improve your CV/application
Accessibility: Please indicate any requirements you may have in the "Special Instructions" box on ICIS.
resources
Reading
- The biggest resume mistake – LinkedIn article
- The Resume Writing Guide: Lisa McGrimmon
- ultimate LinkedIn cheat sheet (imperial.ac.uk)
- How to write an impressive CV and Cover Letter: Tracey Whitmore
- Powerful Verbs That Will Make Your Resume Awesome
- 200 Most Powerful Adjectives: Use These on Your Resume
- What is a CV for - John Lees
- Seven Things That Will Wreck Your CV - John Lees