When applying for your first post military role or any new position, your CV should be a positive reflection on the time, effort and dedication invested into acquiring the relevant skills and experience for the job. Including certain things in your CV can overshadow these valuable and hard-earned skills and create an instant unsuitable profile.
Relevance is a key element here, therefore any experience or personal attributes that would be deemed irrelevant for the job should be carefully considered and extremely brief or ideally, excluded.
This also applies when listing qualifications. Be economical with the space you have; give priority to the highest level, and if listing GCSE's or equivalents, abstain from listing each subject and grade individually, although we advise these are not needed at all unless specifically requested.
Avoid listing generic hobbies such as reading/going to the cinema as these are over used and fail to show originality. Try to use hobbies relevant to the job and/or convey dedication and integrity.
Another detail to consider is your address. If you are applying to a role that's far away, even with the intent to re-locate, it's sometimes best to keep your current location anonymous until you have had a chance to impress. A CV showing an address at a considerable distance from the workplace could disconcert an employer.
Keep your details up to date
If there is one thing that can be really frustrating in the recruitment process has to be finding someone who looks perfect for the job and not being able to get in touch with them.
We dread to think how many missed opportunities have drifted past over the years so lets not let it happen to you.
Foremost, make sure you update us with another email address if you are using an MOD one that's about to expire.
Secondly ensure we have the most up to date telephone number for you - remember if we can't speak to you we can't put you forward and do our job!