Submitting a Curriculum Vitae (CV) is the most basic requirement for applying to any job. It is the first document exchanged between the job poster and the candidate, which makes preparing it the most important step in a job application process. It helps the employer make a first impression of you. A CV that is well formatted, professional and reflects who you truly are is sure to help you stay ahead in the job hunting game.
When preparing a CV, jobseekers waste most of their time looking for the correct format. For those preparing it for the first time, the job gets even more complicated because they often are not sure what information to include and what not to.
Founded by three young professionals Shakur Anwar, Fahad Ifaz and Shadab Alam, AmarCV is a web-based startup launched on August 29 that seeks to simplify the CV making process by providing a straightforward tool for building résumés, converting them to PDF formats and sharing them with recruiters. Creating a reésumé through AmarCV is incredibly simple. Furthermore, it is totally free of cost.
The website has a user-friendly and easily navigable interface. After entering basic login details like your full name, email address etc. click on the Create Your CV button and you will be transported to a page where you will have to provide information about yourself. Information which needs to be provided in your CV is grouped into sections including Personal Details, Work Experience, Qualifications, Education, Interests and References. There is an option to create a personalised section if you want to add other information about yourself. You can rearrange the sections in the way you want them to appear in your CV.
In addition to this, the site provides 3 predefined styles to format your résumé each with different fonts, layouts and bullet styles to give your CV a professional look.
As an added bonus, AmarCV provides special tips about creating résumés from corporate icons like G. Sumdany Don. These tips appear on the right hand side of the webpage. The tips are dynamic in the sense that they change as you move or fill up information from one section of your CV to another.
You can also create an account on AmarCV by providing some basic information about yourself. This gives you additional features of saving your résumés online, ready to edit or download. You can download the PDF format of your CV anytime and send it to anyone. Updating information in your résumé with the course of time on the site is also very easy.
In the future, AmarCV has plans to develop the largest effective professional network in Bangladesh to bring jobseekers and employers together. The team looks forward to adding more exciting features like social media collaboration to help share user profiles with wider audience base, cover letter generator, CV rating and specialised analytics to enhance the interactions among employers and jobseekers.
The site definitely eliminates some of the initial woes of creating résumés. The question is, whether this will help reduce the number of poorly formatted and unprofessional résumés every recruiter has to go through. Only time will tell.
In the meantime, to bring out the awesomeness in your CV, visit www.AmarCV.com