Schnitzel rocks! great stuff..
a couple cents from me:
Make sure you stress projects/tasks which you excelled in that match their field of interest.
Don't overload it with information that is borderline useless a la that you know how to use Internet Explorer, Word 2010 and minimal knowledge of 5 languages.
Write a short cover letter aimed at particular employer, logical and structured A4 should be sufficient to outline why they should want you.
Overall, keep your CV to 2 pages max, unless there is a requirement to elaborate more.
Put education, courses, previous jobs into neat tables with comments about your achievements.
Be careful with the jobs you list - while having broad experience is good, employers can be skeptical, if you list 10 jobs over period of 10 years. If you had a "bad" year or two with too many jobs, you could in just write that you were doing some sub-contracting (if applicable).
Learn your CV and witty answers to standard questions by heart. E.g. you will be asked why you left previous job, what you don't like about your current job, whats your strong/weak traits etc.
Prepare your questions to the employer - about tasks, team, dress-code, benefits etc. Spend half an hour on their website and find some facts for questions such as "I've seen on your website that you have a talent management program, could you tell me about it?" some more examples
http://jobsearch.about.com/od/interviewquestionsanswers/a/interviewquest2.htm
If you are going for sales/customer communication positions - learn about that market (in particular country) and drop some names. If you go for IT - mention some cool new technologies/mashups, which you would really love to work on.
As with any conversation, if you can make your interviewer have a conversation with you, where he/she does most of the talking, and not just a routine QA session,will get to the a-list of candidates.
about are references - you will get asked for those, occasionally, but they are rarely a must. So, prepare one or two (real ones) just in case. A simple scanned letter from your ex-boss sent by email might do too.
and dont get discouraged if you dont get the 1st of 5th or 10th job. Just make sure to ask, politely, if they could explain why you didn't get the job and do a session review to improve your next one.
p.s. and be real in what you aim for, as in don't apply for "niche" positions that require specific knowledge/experience/skills which you do not have.