CV Writing – Try this approach
The first thing that should appear on a properly written CV after the name and contact details is a Profile. This should be your introduction it should say why you are the best candidate for a job. It needs to be focussed on demonstable achievements throughout your career as well as transferable skills and competencies. It should be an overview of the whole CV and as such it can’t be written before you have the rest of the information sorted out.
The best way to show your career history when writing a CV is to show the jobs in reverse chronological order (ie the most recent comes first). But that isn’t the way your life happened. Now we know that it is not necessary to go back more than about ten years when writing a CV, but what I would advise in the first instance is that you go right back to the beginning and list all the jobs you have had ever since you left school or University. When you have done that you can decide where you will start the detailed Career History. However, I would usually advise that earlier jobs should not be omitted altogether but should simply be listed. This will enable you to demonstrate your career progression which is a very important factor when writing a CV.
So to summarise, when writing a CV it is much easier if you write your Profile last and you put down your career history in the order in which it happened. So why not do as I do – I assure you writing a CV is much easier if you start at the bottom of page 2 and work towards the top of page 1. It makes it much easier to focus the brain. You might like to put in your paragraph headings first just to give the draft pages some structure, but the first section that I always complete is REFERENCES available upon request. At least I’ve made a meaningful start so I can get on with the task of CV writing in a way that helps me to feel organised in my mind.