INFORMATION GATHERING FOR YOUR CV

Start by pulling together the main pieces of information that go into your CV.

Personal details:
Name: JHON WILDER VALENCIA Address
Tel (1) 7548090 CALLE 117 No. 90-20
Mobile: 300 4301255 Email address jhon@gmail.com

Previous employment:
Consider all of your experience including paid and unpaid and voluntary work. Focus
on your most recent experience first, giving details of your two most recent roles,
then summarise or briefly list your remaining experience (unless there is something
you really wish to highlight for the role). When you write down the key tasks and
responsibilities for each job role, consider the type of work for which this CV will be
targeted.

Date
Job Title Tasks/Responsibilities Employer
from – to
✓ CARRY OUT PERIODICAL
REVIEWS ON THE COMPLIANCE
QUALITY BY PERSONNEL ON THE
MG GRUPO S.A.S. 2016-2018
AUDITOR FUNCTIONS MANUAL.
✓ TRAINNING EMPLOYEES ON
QUALITY TOPICS.
✓ PERFORM PERSONAL SECURITY
STUDIES TO THE ASPIRANTS. INTEGRAL
HOME VISITOR 2014-2016
✓ LIST CHECKING ABOUT POLIGRAFÍA S.A.S.
BACKGROUND.
✓ TRANSPORTING PEOPLE WHO
REQUIRE CUSTOMIZED
DRIVER MOVILISATION AND
AUTOASSIT 2012-2014
CHOSEN ACCOMPANIMENT SERVICE.
✓ SUPPORT DRIVING IN THE EVENT
OF NEED.

Achievements - think about any key achievements from your work to date and
illustrate where possible with numbers / activities/ outcomes / successes:

IMPROVEMENT OF WORK ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE COMPANY.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE QUALITY OF SERVICES.

STRENGTHEN PERSONAL CONFIDENCE.

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 Education and training:
Institution Qualification Grades Dates

SENA - QUALITY AUDITOR 4.8 / 5.0 AUDITOR 2017

SENA - INTERPRETATION TECHNICIAN

OF PLANS FOR INDUSTRIAL 4.5 / 5.0 DRAFTSMAN 2017
MACHINERY INDUSTRIAL

SENA - MAINTENANCE OF MAINTENANCE

4.8 / 5.0 2014
COMPUTER EQUIPMENT OPERATOR

SENA - ADMINISTRATOR OF
4.3 / 5.0 ADMINISTRATOR 2013
HUMAN RESOURCE

MILITARY UNIVERSITY -
AIRPORT SECURITY 4.3 / 5.0 TECHNOLOGIST 2012
TECNOLOGY

COLEGIO CALDAS - HIGH

4.2 / 5.0 ACADEMIC 1988
SCHOOL STUDENT

Other on-job or non-accredited training

SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR E-COMMERCE.

SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR OFFICE.

Other interests and achievements outside of work

TECHNICIAN DRAFTSMAN INDUSTRIAL .

Clean driving licence?

YES.

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 IDENTIFYING & PROMOTING YOUR SKILLS

What are your skills?

Your skills are simply the things you do well. Many people feel that they have few
skills but the reality is that we all use a wide variety of skills both in the
workplace and at home. It is important to know your skills as the skills are a
main feature of a good CV.

Skills can be transferred from one job to another. There are key skills that underpin many
different types of work such as knowledge and application of information and
communication technology, improving own learning and performance, teamwork,
problem solving and application of numbers. These key skills are really valued by
employers. Look at the lists below and tick those that you feel you are particularly good
at. Don’t forget to think about skills you use both in and out of work.

People based skills: Practical Skills:

 Talking and listening to people
 Explaining things to people
 Dealing with complaints or enquiries
 Putting people at ease
 Organising people
 Selling, persuading, negotiating
 Motivating others
 Being supportive to people
 Training or tutoring
 Managing, supervising or leading
 Working effectively in a team
 Using a keyboard
 Using hand tools
 Operating powered equipment
 Maintaining equipment or machinery
 Mending and repairing equipment
 Diagnosing faults and testing equipment
 Using physical strength
 Handling materials or equipment with
precision and speed
 Using IT: word-processing, databases,
spreadsheets and Internet

Thinking skills: Skills using numbers, data & information:

 Coming up with new ideas
 Evaluating different ideas
 Thinking of improvements
or alternatives
 Planning ahead and setting goals
 Developing other people’s ideas
 Sizing up a situation quickly
 Deciding between different
courses of action
 Working out how to deal with things
that have gone wrong
 Developing projects and ideas
 Being creative/artistic
 Keeping accurate records
 Making accurate measurements
 Using numbers accurately
 Following written instructions or diagrams
 Working out costs and budgeting
 Checking information for accuracy
 Writing letters, memos and reports
 Extracting information from reports, books
or manuals
 Organising paperwork systems
 Organising or classifying information
 Providing information verbally or in writing
 Researching information
 Analysing numerical information
 Prioritising workloads
 Managing time effectively to meet deadlines

Add any others that you feel are missing from this list:

Coordination in team work.

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 Putting your skills into your CV:
You will see from the CV examples later in this pack that your best skills are shown in a very
prominent place. You should select your six strongest skills that are most relevant to the job or
type of work you are applying for. They can be listed in bullet points at the start of your CV
(after your profile) and show, at a glance, that you have what it takes to do the job you are
applying for.

This is a selection of positive phrases that you could use to describe your skills:

Highly skilled at….. With the ability to……….

Excellent………..skills Highly developed……….skills
Very good at……… Proven ability to…………….
Extremely good at……….. Excelling at………………
Expertise in……………… Capable of……………
Experienced in……………. Successful at ………………
Choose your 6 strongest skills and give an example for each of when you have used
them. To do this, consider the tasks and responsibilities from your previous roles (page 3)
and identify the skills you developed to enable you to successfully carry out these tasks.
Relate the skills you list to the type of work that you are looking for. The first line shows an
example. You can then transfer the list to your CV.
TASK – what work tasks did I SKILLS – indicate level of skill and if possible give an
have to do example to show your abilities
✓ Showing the efforts of the technical area according to the
Organizing people training needs that are required to excel in the computer
systems market.

✓ Skill to coordinate a weekly maintenance program ensuring

Managing, supervising or leading
the necessary coverage in the technical area.
✓ To be an example for the collaborators, demonstrating a
leadership of action and commitment.
Developing other people’s ideas
✓ Make ideas known and transmit them to the staff so that a
more active and responsible participation is generated.
✓ Get engaged to generate awareness about preventive
maintenance to computers.
Maintaining equipment or machinery
✓ Supervise the care, maintenance and cleaning of the
technical area.
✓ Skills to look for positive and negative human actions in the
Researching information development of candidate selection interviews, inquiring
about their job skills and knowledge.
✓ Acquire to skills in interpreting the main and auxiliary views
Following written instructions or to determine the characteristics of a piece of machinery.
diagrams ✓ Ability to identify, interpret and use specifications within the
technical plan, representing their parts in detail.

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 WRITING AN ATTENTION GRABBING PROFILE

Look at the example CVs and you will see that they all start with a short ‘profile’ of around 2-3
lines. The profile is a summary of your main selling points and aims to grab the attention of the
reader from the start and encourage them to read on. (Most recruiters spend only a few
seconds reading a CV so make the first paragraph count!) As with everything on your CV it
will be targeted towards the job or type of work you are applying for. Your profile will be
supported by a list of your key skills – about 6 bullet pointed skills & achievements.

Your profile should contain the following:

Your positive qualities (use two or three of the circled ones from the activity below)
Your best skills (highlight a couple of your strongest and most relevant skills from
pages 5 and 6)
Your experience (highlighting what is relevant to the job you are applying for)
▪ Your career objective or aim (this could be a particular role or level of
responsibility – or both)

Positive Qualities

As well as our skills, employers look for other positive qualities. You will find lots
of examples of these below. Begin by underlining your top 8 positive qualities.
Then circle 3 from those 8 that you consider are your strongest ones.

Friendly Kind Dynamic Enthusiastic

Flexible Quick-thinking Hard-working Fit

Honest Versatile Creative Adaptable

Willing to learn Calm Compassionate Organized

Confident Committed Imaginative Thorough

Articulate Analytical Innovative Open-minded

Energetic Mature Diplomatic Adventurous

Punctual Reliable Capable Self-motivated

Caring Decisive Professional Resourceful

This simple example could be adapted to suit your circumstances and of course you can add
words that are better for you. The underlined words show positive qualities, and the previous
sections in this pack will have helped you to identify your key skills and experience. The last
thing to include is your career objective. Create your own profile, then adapt it each time you
apply for a new role.

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Your personal profile would normally go at the top of your CV, immediately under your name
and contact details.

Now put together one or two sentences for your personal profile that summarise your positive
qualities, your best skills, your relevant experience and your career objective or aim. For
example:

Personal Profile: Positive qualities

A hard-working, reliable and well-organised
individual with excellent communication and IT Skills
skills. Looking for new challenges and the
opportunity to build on skills and experience gained Experience
from working in a diverse range of office
environments and establish a career as a successful Career aim
administrator.

Your personal profile:

I am an analytical person who always seeks to identify problems from the beginning,
organizing my ideas to find different alternatives that lead me to a better decision. I am
always looking for innovation through creativity, based on trust in everything I do. I am
developing quickly and effectively of personnel management becoming a leader and guide for
my colleagues.

A NOTE ON REFERENCES

An employer will want to know that they can ask for a reference so they have a way to check
you will be a good employee.

‘References available upon request’ - as a general rule, it is best not to give the names and
addresses of referees on your CV. You can provide them if they are requested, and you
should then brief your referees carefully about who they may be talking to, and what the
potential job is all about.

Ideally choose your most recent employer and a colleague or ex-colleague who knows you
professionally. Alternatively, if you have been self-employed or experienced a long period of
unemployment - choose a referee who knows you through a club, society, charity or school
that you support.

You should now have all the elements you need to put together a successful CV. The
following pages give examples of different CV formats you could use to present the
information you’ve gathered.

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 CURRICULUM VITAE

Jhon Wilder Valencia Hernandez

127 street No. 90-20
Bogotá D.C.
Telephone: (1) 7548090
Mobile: 300 4301255
jhon@gmail.com

My name is jhon valencia, an airport security technologist with extensive knowledge in the
administration of human resources, I have 21 years of experience in the fields of leadership and
integral security, my strength being honesty, professionalism, initiative and the development of
projects aimed at the protection and administration of companies.

My experience is based fundamentally on the work, the initiative and the commitment that I put into
the development of activities entrusted to me by my bosses and colleagues with whom I have
worked constantly and efficiently.

Key Skills

✓ Experience in the field of security and administration of people.

✓ Knowledge of the organization and operation of leading companies and with the ability to plan and
prioritize burdens for the fulfillment of the objectives and goals proposed.

✓ Experience in the maintenance and repair of technical equipment.

✓ Very good communication and leadership skills at work.
✓ Person with initiative and analysis to solve adverse situations.
✓ Ability to work in teams and pressure at work.

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 Employment

GR GRUPO S.A.S.

OCCUPATION: Quality Auditor and Customer Service.

FUNCTIONS:

✓ Perform activities of Internal Audit and Quality to commercial companies, through different image
evaluations to improve the service and image standards of the same organization.
✓ Perform activities as an incognito client in customer service activities to analyze the behavior of
the people involved in a commercial or service process.

Bogotá D.C. Jan 2016 / Currently.

POLIGRAFÍA S.A.S.

OCCUPATION: Security Studies Coordinator and Home Visitor.

FUNCTIONS:

✓ Preparation of security studies, reliability and home visits to people, within the selection process
on job profiles.

Bogotá D.C. and Cali (Valle) Oct 2014 / Currently.

AUTOASSIST S.A.S.

OCCUPATION: Driver Chosen.

FUNCTIONS:

✓ t transporting people who require customized mobilization and accompaniment service.

✓ support driving in the event of need.

Bogotá D.C. May 2013 / Dec 2013.

Education

SENA - QUALITY AUDITOR 2017

SENA - INTERPRETATION OF PLANS FOR INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY 2017
SENA - MAINTENANCE OF COMPUTER EQUIPMENT 2014
SENA - ADMINISTRATOR OF HUMAN RESOURCE 2013
MILITARY UNIVERSITY - AIRPORT SECURITY TECNOLOGY 2012
COLEGIO CALDAS - HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT 1988
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Personal Details

Driving License: Vehicle driver with C1 pass (Public service) and A2 (Motorcycle).

Hobby: soccer, cycling and chess.

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 127 street No. 90-20
Bogotá D.C.
Telephone: (1) 7548090
Mobile: 300 4301255
Email: jhon@gmail.com
23th February 2018

Mr Alejandro Ferran
Managing Director
Company ALPHA SAS
Bogota D.C.

Dear Mr Alejandro Ferran

I am interested in the job of human resource manager that they offer in your company. I believe
have the capacities, skills and experiences necessary to be an ideal candidate for the job
offered.

As a connoisseur of the administration and personnel management, I have developed

leadership skills, teamwork and work responsibility which have allowed me to have important
occupations within different companies in the commercial and industrial sector.

Within my skills I can highlight a wide experience in labor research, equipment maintenance
and skills development that are required to respond to the new challenges that are presented
today.

I am sure that my experience in administration and my research and writing skills qualify me for
your consideration. If you wish, I can provide you with current samples of my work including my
curriculum for a better work perspective. I hope to meet with you and discuss my qualities in
more detail.

Yours sincerely

JHON VALENCIA

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