October 3, 2024
How to Write Your CV for a Cabin Crew Job?

How to Write Your CV for a Cabin Crew Job?

You may be pretty excited about an airline career, a cabin crew or a flight attendant position as most of the youngsters are. However, many job seekers are unsuccessful in their quest for a cabin crew job just because of poor representation of their skills on their job application CV.

In this article, I am reviewing tips and techniques to write an excellent CV for a flight attendant position.

First of all, you should be clear about what it demands to become a flight attendant. It is not a simple 9 to 5 job. As a flight attendant, you may have to get up very early in the morning to go to your duty, and have no idea where you may be in the air at afternoon. This job needs a lot of patience and ability to bear stress and strain. Although your duty is rostered on monthly basis with predetermined flights and destinations, sometimes you have to perform your duty in standby shifts. You should be ready to spend nights in foreign hotels, and to remain prepared for variety of weather conditions. Your personal life can be affected severely as you may not have time to maintain your social contacts outside the cabin life.

Once you are ready to pursue this career despite all odds, you will be able write a good CV that catches the attention of employers within seconds. No employer spends more than 30 seconds to look at the CV, so your CV must show qualities and skills that an employer is looking for in cabin crew being recruited. Following are a few suggestions that will make your CV catch the attention of employer and entice them to continue reading:

  1. The length of CV should be no more than 2 pages. Longer CV’s are often thrown in the trash-can
  2. The sub-headings of CV should be Brief Profile, Summary of Skills, Professional Experience, Qualifications, and Trainings. Your name and contact information should be mentioned in top header. You should highlight your personal traits such as Endurance and Patience to show that you are a person of the type that suits cabin crew job
  3. Use a standard font like Times New Roman, Arial, or Calibri of size 11 or 12 throughout the body. The headings should be bold, in same font with 14 or 16 size
  4. The contents of CV should be such that the profile mentions your career objectives and professional background. Under the heading of skills, you should highlight your skills relating to cabin crew position, for example, communication skills, ability to handle difficult customers, endurance in difficulties, confidence and pleasant personality, hospitality, etc. Each skill should be mentioned prominently, preferably each in a new line with a bullet
  5. If you don’t have much to write under professional experience heading, being a novice or recent graduate, do write the experience gained during internships
  6. Your CV should be balanced. Avoid extremities or over-doing in any sub-headings. For example, you should not fill the first page only with skills leaving behind no room for other subheadings on the first page.

Since recruitment is a competitive process and your CV is the first step in this process, you should devote proper attention and full efforts in writing your CV for cabin crew job.