How to write a Student CV

The conventions below are the ones this field actually uses. They are what the builder applies when you pick Student / Fresher, 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:

Education — Education leads while you have little work history. Include scores.
Projects — Projects are your evidence. Coursework counts if you can describe what you built.

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.

Objective
Education
Projects
Skills
Internships & Part-time Work
Certifications
Achievements
Languages

Section by section

Objective — One or two lines. Say the role you want and what you can already do.

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:

team size · participants · rank · score · duration

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:

Built · Led · Won · Organised · Analysed · Volunteered · Presented

Length

One page is the norm here.

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Free, no account, and nothing is uploaded — the builder runs in your browser and the CV never leaves it.

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