How to write a Psychology CV

The conventions below are the ones this field actually uses. They are what the builder applies when you pick Psychology / Counselling, and what the rating checks a finished CV against.

What it must contain

Leave any of these out and the CV reads as incomplete to someone who hires in this field:

Clinical & Practice Experience — Client group, modality (CBT, DBT, psychodynamic), caseload and supervision arrangements.
Education

The order to put them in

Order is not cosmetic. What sits at the top is what gets read before someone decides whether to keep reading.

Professional summary
Licences & registrations
Clinical & Practice Experience
Education
Certifications
Skills
Publications
Achievements
Languages

Section by section

Licences & registrations — RCI registration or equivalent, and supervised hours completed.

What to put numbers on

The single most common reason a CV in this field reads as weak is that nothing in it is measured. These are the figures that mean something here:

caseload · supervised hours · sessions delivered · client group size

Verbs that carry weight

Openers like “responsible for” and “worked on” describe a job description rather than a person. In this field these do the work instead:

Assessed · Counselled · Facilitated · Supervised · Screened · Referred

Length

1 to 2 pages is normal for this field.

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