Careers Resources

Address

Contact details

Personal profile

A short statement about your skills, personality and qualities. It should be tailored for each job you apply for.

Education

List your secondary schools and colleges with the dates attended. List your qualifications and grades. Leave out junior and primary schools.

Work experience

List any paid work, work experience or voluntary work you have done. Start with the most recent first.

For each job, give:

• Dates employed
• Job title
• Company name
• A brief outline of your duties
• If you don’t have much paid work experience, put down any voluntary work you have done, e.g. helping out at a school, school work experience.

Achievements

Include details about any certificates gained for timekeeping, sporting achievements, Duke of Edinburgh awards, etc.

Include any relevant skills or certificates that you have that might be useful at work, for example a driving licence, a first aid certificate, ability to speak a foreign language, experience of computer software such as Microsoft Office.

Interests

Include interests that will help show you as interesting and sociable, especially if they are relevant to the job. For example,  an applicant to a catering company whose hobby is cooking.

References

Include the contact details for two referees who will provide references for you. Suitable people for this include your last employer and a school teacher or College lecturer.

If you do not want to include them on your CV put ‘References available on request’.