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Practical advice for your CV, written for jobs in Iraq, the Kurdistan region and the Gulf.
Your CV
- Put the advert’s job title under your name
Recruiters and their software search by job title. If your CV uses different words for the same job, it can be missed before anyone reads it.
- What hiring software can’t read on your CV
Text in pictures, tables and page headers often comes out scrambled or empty. Six things to fix before you apply.
- Should your CV have a photo?
In Iraq and the Gulf, employers usually expect one. In the UK, the US and Canada, most do not. How to decide, and how to do it well.