Now here’s a small simple sample example.
Resume (or Curriculum Vitae)
Name: i.e., Paul John Brown
Address, etc.
Date of Birth:
Nationality:
(Marital Status is not essential)
Phone: XXXX XXX
Email pjbrown@hotmail.com
Education Profile
(include all your education & training, etc, sauf si c’est un petit boulot et vous utilisez un version court de CV)
Languages: i.e., fluency in English (or fluent English is also correct)
If you’re NOT fluent in English of course you’re going to be found out, so it’s better to write something like “good grounding in English” or state how many years experience in English or other languages that you have. (At least then you haven’t said you’re perfect ,and reading between the lines they will probably think that your English is a bit better than it is.)
Employment History – pretty standard. Includes all the full time, part time and casual work you’ve had with the dates/years, etc.
Extra tip: On my resume I add in an extra category called “Recent activities” – it could be useful for those who may have been doing Work Experience stages, volunteer work, or working on projects which could show how dedicated you are.
Voluntary Community Activities
Australia has a huge network of volunteer organisations, and a huge population of people who volunteer their time (especially in the older generation) and for us it’s a very good idea to include what we do in the community, and I guess show that we’re not just interested de juste gagne de l’argent…
Demonstrated Abilities
Where you get to tell about what you’re good at.
I.e., broken down into categories like “Organisational skills” “technical skills” “written and verbal communication skills” “technical skills” and “other skills”
With your previous jobs/employment, try to make the job titles as gender neutral as possible – i.e., if you have listed jobs which in English only have a male gender, such as ‘delivery man’, change it to ‘delivery person’. Using ‘person’ is so much better, because for many years now, it has been illegal in Australia to advertise for one gender over another, and all the language must be completely non-sexist, so the practice of ‘deliveryman, postman, odd jobs man, handyman’ – anything like that, has been totally forbidden in newspaper job advertising.
Using no gender words could tell your prospective employer that you understand our ‘Equal Opportunity Act’ laws.
Driver’s Licence: Car (or whatever)
If your Driver’s Licence is without convictions/penalties, don’t write ‘clean driving licence’ (which means nothing to us) but rather ‘excellent driving record’ (ou quelquechose comme ca)
One of the last items usually is the ‘Hobbies and Interests’ (or ‘Interests and Activities’ which is probably fairly standard too).
If you have any bizarre ones in there, (like collecting really weird things….)
I’d recommend removing them.
Remove any as well that might go against the rest of the image of yourself that you’ve worked to present in your covering letter and CV – i.e., a computer professional would be best removing any and all references to computer games, which also could lower the appearance of maturity level.
You could add in some team sport interests, for extra effect. Maybe leave out any sports you might have listed (unless you actually play in a team) that aren’t played much in Australia and which Aussies (at work at least) wouldn’t really care for, like Soccer (in Vic, that is but NSW is ok for that & rugby) , basketball, handball, softball, baseball – if you can’t gamble on it, it’s not quite so interesting to an Aussie in a work situation). Try to show an interest in Cricket, Aussie Rules Football and horse racing.
Familiar sports like motor racing and tennis will fit in well too.
SPORTS:
When writing about the sports you play, the verb endings are not always the same: par exemple:
Surfing, Kite Surfing, Wind Surfing, sky diving, cycling, hiking (the word Treking isn’t used much here, if at all) swimming, boating, snorkelling, diving, caving, fishing, canoeing, kayaking, jogging, running, racing, Horse Racing, Orienteering, Cricket, Gymnastics, Baseball, Football (don’t fall into the trap of writing ‘footing’!)
Another major exception to the rule is Golf (people don’t say they’re going ‘golfing’ – it’s ‘to play golf’.
Pour quelqu’un qui voudrait travailler a Melbourne (ou ailleurs dans le Victoria) I wonder if you could have any idea before you arrive, how important (et tres utile!) a liking for Aussie Rules Football could be! (The rivalry and gambling that goes on in offices between supporters of rival teams when it comes to Footy Tipping seems to them to be very essential to the ‘work life’, so at least show an understanding or initial interest in the game, if you can’t manage to present the image of a total fan!)
, le il y a 13 années et 10 mois.
