
Key Skills for a CV: List of Good Examples
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Here’s a bad dream—
You find the perfect job offer. You carefully craft a killer CV. And...
It never reaches the hiring manager. Someone else lands the gig.
This dream can turn to reality. Unless you learn how to email a CV the right way.
An email for sending a CV should read a bit like your cover letter. But a CV email is not your cover letter all over again.
In 7 minutes, I’ll teach you how to write one that gets you in pole position every time you apply for a job.
This guide will show you:
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Ready?
For starters, take a look at this sample CV email:
Subject line: Senior Customer Service Representative Seeks Customer Service Team Lead Position with XYZ (Job ID #888701)
Dear Marcus,
Please find attached a copy of my CV for the Customer Service Team Lead Position with XYZ.
As a Senior CSR with ABC Corp, I’ve designed and supervised phone and online surveying activities prior to the launch of our new line of products. The result? In 7 months I’ve raised customer experience phone survey ratings by 58% and boosted customer retention by 27%. I’m sure I can translate my 9+ years of CS experience into similar results for XYZ.
Can we schedule a meeting next week to discuss solutions for making XYZ’s Customer Service operations more cost-effective and raising your NPS ratings in the upcoming months?
Sincerely,
Cynthia McKittrick
Senior Customer Service Representative
linkedin.com/in/cynthia-s-mckittrick
c.mckittrick@me.com
07928 620 346
Attachments:
Cynthia-McKittrick-CV-XYZ.pdf
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Here’s the deal—
Emailing a CV to the hiring manager rather than applying through online forms on job boards can put you in front of most of your competition.
There are two reasons for this:
Follow these CV emailing steps:
First, you need to find out who to reach:
Once you get the right contact details, you have the gold opportunity.
Don’t. Waste. It.
Writing an email to send with your CV is a high-risk, high-reward endeavour.
You’ll stand out from the crowd of other applicants if your message gets opened and read.
And guess what? Your subject line and the CV email opening have to take care of that.
How?
In a word: brevity.
No fancy narratives, no attempts at jokes or creative puns. Be as straightforward as it gets.
The same goes for your CV email opening. Be short and sweet. (Emphasis on “short” is no coincidence.)
Dear Carrie,
Please find attached my CV with detailed work experience for the Health & Lifestyle Managing Editor with Cosmopolitan.
Hi there Carrie!
When I was a little girl and my mom (God bless her soul) used to be a subscriber of Cosmo, every month, as soon as she got her copy, I’d sit down next to her, marvelling at the pictures on those magical pages. Ever since, I’ve dreamed of becoming a member of your team.
Get this:
The email you send with your CV might reach the hiring manager in a hurry. Be prepared for that. Make your point clear from the beginning.
The good example above? This one’s going to be saved for later reading.
The bad one? Already deleted.
There’s personalised message and then there’s creepy oversharing.
Alright. You got their attention. Now...
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Surprise, surprise—
Your CV email is not a copy-paste of your regular cover letter in email text editor.
Take a look:
That’s an email format that will deliver: don’t undersell your achievements but don’t be too elaborate either.
Now they kind of want to give you a shot already. Amplify that good impression you made with the below:
Give this a thought—
Your CV email message is basically a sales pitch: the product you’re selling is yourself.
So here’s an interesting online sales stat to guide you in the right direction:
Sales emails in which the call to action was clear and singular (one short sentence; appearing only once in the message) increased sales by, wait for it, 1617%.
People don’t mind being sold to as long as the sales message is concise. Take advantage.
Good example? Succinct and powerful.
Bad example? Verbose and unconfident. They won’t email or call you back with good news (=job interview invitation).
Finally:
Let’s go through key steps:
Like this:
Sincerely,
Henry Fool
www.henryfool_art.site
linkedin.com/in/henryfool
henry.t.fool@gmail.com
07808 459 795
Twitter: @HenryFool12
Attachments:
Henry-Fool-CV.pdf
Before you press the “Send” button when emailing your CV, check these additional important things.
First, make sure your email has it all:
Second, stop worrying about this:
It doesn’t make that much of a difference and is mostly a matter of preference.
My take? Go with the email cover letter and attach a CV only unless a job ad explicitly demands candidates to enclose cover letters as separate attachments.
Third, press the “Send” button the right time:
There’s great research that has all the answers:
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Emailing a CV lets you reach the hiring manager directly, putting you ahead of other applicants. Do it right, and you can already start preparing for the big interview.
Recap: How to Write Email with CV:
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