Guide
Help your CV get a reply
Your CV should make your experience easy to understand. Give the reader enough detail to see what you could do in the role. Make your contact information easy to find.
Start with the job you want
Choose a role before editing your CV. Read a few job descriptions for that role. Note the tasks they mention and the experience you actually have.
Use that information to decide what belongs near the top. Keep claims about your experience accurate, even when the job asks for more.
Make the opening specific
Put your name and a working email address near the top. Include your phone number when appropriate. Check every contact detail before sending.
Write a short summary that names your relevant experience. A fresher can use a course or project instead of a past job.
Example
Business graduate with a college project in customer research. Used Excel to organise survey responses and present the findings.
Use this structure with your own experience. Leave out skills you cannot explain with an example.
Show what you did
Replace broad statements with a task and your contribution. Describe the work clearly enough for someone outside your team to understand.
Add a result when you can support it. A clear description of completed work is useful without an invented percentage.
For group work, explain which part you handled. Keep the team’s achievement separate from your own contribution.
Example
Checked daily order records in Excel and followed up on missing delivery details.
Bring relevant experience forward
A long work history can make the most useful details hard to find. Give more space to experience connected to the role.
For a first job, include a project with enough detail to discuss in an interview. Name the task and explain your contribution.
Use plain section headings such as Experience and Education. Explain abbreviations that someone outside your company may not recognise.
Read it as a stranger
Open the exact file you plan to send. Check whether the text is readable on a phone.
Check for broken links and inconsistent dates. Read it again for missing words. Confirm that your file opens correctly.
Ask someone to read the opening and describe the role you are seeking. Rewrite anything they misunderstand.
Review it against the role
CV Evaluation checks your CV against the role you choose. It gives a score out of 10, names the skills and details your CV is missing, and shows live jobs it already matches.
Review each suggestion before changing your CV. Add skills only when you have them. Describe genuine experience more clearly when the detail was missing.
You can edit and rerun it as often as you like. The result is private and does not make you visible to companies.
Try CV Evaluation with the role you want, and see what your CV leaves unclear.