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Personalised gets picked:Tailor your CV content to each role. Take the job requirements and match them to your skills and achievements from your most recent roles.
Keep it short:The maximum length for a CV is 2 pages, so focus on making relevant your two most recent roles and pulling out transferable skills from previous roles into an overall competencies section.
Highlight transferable skills:Especially important if you are making a career change. Highlight in the first page your relevant skills and experience drawn from your entire career history and make the connections explicit, so employers recognise them as transferable to the role.
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Personal Details
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Personal Profile
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Highly professional senior fundraising executive with 20 years’ experience consulting to nonprofit organisations in South Africa. Proven success at raising funds through transformational, leadership and major gift (6-7 figure) levels via capital and major gift appeals. Sophisticated interpersonal, communication and presentation skills. Extensive experience building long term relationships between organisations and all echelons of society.

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Succinct and powerful:A CV personal profile, positioned directly underneath your name and contact details, is essentially a condensed version of a cover letter and should be no more than three lines in length. Its intention is to instantly convince the hiring manager that your qualifications match the job requirements and that you are the best person for the role.
Personalise:Think about the recruiter and what they need to know immediately, only including the skills and qualifications that relate to the specific role and industry.
Avoid clichés and buzzwords:Anything that could be true of anybody else, for example, ‘responsible’, ‘effective’, ‘strategic’. Showcase your unique selling points relevant to the role and get a friend to read over it to make sure it sounds authentically you.
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Key skills
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- Capital & Major Gift Campaigns
- Transformational/ Leadership/Major Gift Specialist
- Prospect Research/ Qualification
- Ethical Fundraising
- Feasibility Studies
- Institutional Analyses
- Donor Acquisition/ Cultivation/ Stewardship
- Strategy Development incl. Moves Management & Donor Pipelines
- Case for Support/ Proposal/Grant Writing
- Database Management
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Alumni Relations
- Social Media/CSR/ PR/Marketing Skills
- Leadership
- Time management
- Intuitive empathy
- Growth Mindset
- Etiquette
- Mindfulness
- Strong Verbal Comms
- Excellent Written Comms
- Public Speaking
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Focus on winsFocus on your biggest wins and deliverables
Relate your best skills to those big wins
Do a hard skills audit: Identify and make a list of your hard skills - what you have been trained in or learnt and then developed. Hard skills examples are; qualifications, programming languages, software competency, technical writing etc...
Do a soft skills audit:Make a list of your personal skills, that can sometimes be harder to quantify, but are crucial to how you will interact with your colleagues and clients. These could be; negotiating, project managing or people management.
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Hard skills
Hard skills are things such as A-Levels, Degrees and other qualifications.
Soft skills
Soft skills are things such as Teamwork, Communication, Time Management, etc.
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Professional Experience
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Example:Project ClaudiaDevelopment Manager (Volunteer), August 2018 - Present
Project Claudia is a Community Interest Company currently evolving into a registered charity. Current strategy involves a major gifts programme including prospect/donor, patron and ambassador identification, recruitment and communications, software and database management, ongoing business support and fundraising consultation to the CEO and Project Director.
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RelevancyFocus on the most relevant professional experience to the role you are applying for
Close the skill gaps:Make sure your CV format fits the position you are goingIdentify the skills that you don’t have that separate you from those who are already working in the roles you are interested in. Close them by acquiring the relevant knowledge, experience and any qualifications you need.
You have transferable skills too:Identify your transferable skills and experience drawn from your entire career history and even from any career breaks (soft skills). Doing this will reveal that you have even more to offer than you may have initially considered – widening your options.
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