atioMost selection processes of the World Bank Group require candidates to upload their Curriculum Vitae (CV) onto an online platform. The selection team will use this document to gain an initial impression of the candidate’s competences, professional experience and academic qualifications, and to evaluate the suitability of their profile according to what is required for the position and organization. Therefore, constructing a good CV is essential, in order to maximize your chances of success in this competitive selection process and to stand out from the other candidates.
Although, writing a curriculum can be more complex than first appears. it is common for candidates to have questions about preparing their curriculum and to make mistakes, which may be decisive in their elimination from the selection process. Therefore, to assist candidates in constructing an effective curriculum we going to present here 4 main contents that must be in your CV.
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World Bank CV Information
1. Personal information
It is important that the CV has some of the candidate’s personal information at the beginning, such as:
- Full name (in cases of long names, middle name(s) can be abbreviated);
- Date of birth;
- Contact telephone number (with the country and area code);
- Email;
- Home address;
- Nationality(ies).
Candidates must be very careful not to insert erroneous personal information. Telephone and email contacts should always be updated.
2. Academic background
All of the candidate’s academic qualifications should be included. The highest qualifications should come first and you do not need to include your secondary school (high school). The following information should be presented in this order: name of the qualification (doctorate, Master’s and bachelor’s degree), the course area or subject (economics, engineering or nursing, etc.), university name, institution’s location and the period in which you took the course.
3. Professional experience
Candidates should present in their World Bank CV, information of all of their professional experience in international development, including internships (with remuneration or otherwise), voluntary work, their own business or freelance work. Experience should be listed in descending, chronological order; in other words, from the most recent to the oldest. The organization’s name, position, location, the period worked and a brief description of the candidate’s responsibilities and achievements should be presented.
Note: In our eBooks, we explain how you should present the responsibilities and achievements from your work experience, with examples!
4. Languages
The candidate should list the languages that they know, followed by their level of proficiency in each one. Firstly, the candidate should indicate their mother tongue and then other languages. If the candidate has taken a proficiency test, the result can be mentioned.
The level of language proficiency should be indicated using the terms fluent, advanced, intermediary and basic. Another way of presenting language proficiency is shown in the following table:
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Level |
Description |
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False Beginner |
The individual has very little knowledge of the language and only knows random words; |
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Beginner |
Can understand simple, everyday expressions and a little of the context; |
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Lower Intermediate |
Able to understand a conversation; reproduce the language in a hesitant way; ask and answer questions and write short texts on various subjects; |
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Upper-Intermediate |
Able to hold a conversation with a native speaker; able to introduce new subjects and topics to the dialogue, and read and write without making many mistakes; |
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Advanced |
Has enough fluency to discuss and show their point of view; able to convince using complex information and read and write with very few mistakes; |
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Fully Proficient |
The speaker has total proficiency in the language, and recognizes slang and regional accents. |
You can gather other information in your CV such as complementary courses, scientific meetings, publications, scholarships. In our eBook The World Bank Group Jobs and Careers we talk about each of them and how they should be displayed in your document.
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