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Career Advice Consultant Rowan Manahan reads CVs for a living. Here he shares his tips for organising that all-important CV.

Should you include a profile?

- It’s a great way to tell the reader a bit about you and how you’re qualified - make sure that it is impartial, verifiable and fact driven material

Education in a CV how far should the candidate go back?

- Reverse chronological order

- Include training and accreditations that you have received, format in a way that is easy to read

- Use what is relevant

What order should the sections go in?

- Depends on the position and your experience, put what is most interesting and important first.

- Just out of formal education, going to be most interested in wheter or not you do have some working experience.