What to write on a resume for your first job
How to write a CV with no experience [kick start your career]
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to teach how to write CV when you've got
little or no experience so maybe you're
a graduate or a school leaver and you've
never had a proper job before I'm gonna
teach you how you can still create an
effective CV that's going to get you the
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find them helpful in this video I'm
going to cover how to write a CV when
you have no experience so this is a big
challenge for a lot of young people
especially when you're applying for jobs
and a lot of the adverts are saying that
you need experience and you need certain
skills you know how do you actually go
about showing people you have these
skills when you have no work experience
it is challenging but it's not
impossible you just need to be a bit
creative in where you pull the skills
out from and then how you show them to
people so throughout this guide what I'm
gonna cover is you know what is a CV
first of all so you know what is it and
and what's its purpose more importantly
and then who reads your CV so some porn
that you understand who's reading your
CV and when you apply for jobs so that
you can sort of tailor it to their needs
CV form and structure so before you
start putting any content into the CV
it's important that it looks good and
it's also easy for people to read and
that's all down to form and structure a
CV profile which is the introductory
paragraph at the top we're going to look
at how you can write one of those to
help attract people and grab people's
attention when you first open up the CV
and then core skills and achievements
your education section and your hobbies
and interests and how you can pull
skills out of those areas that are going
to be relevant to the job you're
applying for so what is a CV well
essentially a CV is a document that you
writes that contains a lot of
work-related information about yourself
and you use it whenever you apply for a
job now the best way to think about it
is if it's like you're marketing
material for your services as an
employee so like a leaflet or a brochure
for your services so it needs to sell
you it needs to tell people you've got
the right skills and knowledge to do the
jobs that they're looking for and it
needs to win you interviews that's its
ultimate aim
we read your CV so once you've written
your CV and you start sending it off to
apply for jobs who are the people that
actually read the CV and decide whether
or not you get an interview so there are
two types of people the first type of
people are hiring managers so these are
the people that work within the
organizations that you're applying to
who actually need to start within their
team or area so for example if you apply
for a sales assistant job within a shop
it might be the shop manager so it's the
person that you ultimately end up
working for and then you also have
recruiters so recruiters are sort of
like middlemen within the Employment
game they are hired specifically to find
candidates to send through to hire
managers so they sort of screen the
Seavey's have a quick chat with you and
then they'll pop your CV through to the
hiring manager you know if they think
you're a good fit so those are the two
people you need to be concerned about
when you're writing your CV the most
important things to know about them are
one they're on very busy people and two
they see lots and lots of CV so you know
a recruiter for example might see a
hundred CVS every day so it's important
to know that because you need to adapt
your CV to make it easy for them to read
and so that it stands out amongst all
the other candidates who are also
applying for the same jobs as you how to
format and structure your CV so before
we start adding any content to the CV
what we need to do is make sure it looks
nice and professional and it's a nice
and easy read so recruiters and hiring
managers can quickly whisper it and then
pick out the information they want so
the first thing you need to do is write
it in a very simple font something like
Arial or Tahoma if you're using
Microsoft Word don't try to be over a
labra and use a fancy font because often
they'll be difficult to read so you just
want to make sure it's nice and clear
then stick to a simple color scheme
black text on white backgrounds tends to
work best you can add a little bit of
color if you want but don't go crazy and
make the CV look unprofessional and a
bit garish no photos or images so a
photo of yourself or any kind of imagery
or logos are just not necessary for a CV
all you need to do is convince people
that you have the right skills and
knowledge for their jobs so there's no
need for any photos or images clearly
divide your sections for out the CV so
every section should
nice bold heading and perhaps a border
as well so that people can easily
navigate the page and they know where
they're looking at break the text up so
again to make it easy to read and ensure
that people can digest the information
on the page you need to make sure the
text is nicely broken up with short
paragraphs and lots of bullet points and
lastly to keep it to one page now this
shouldn't be difficult if you have no
experience but the reason behind this is
really because you know busy recruiters
and hiring managers don't have time to
read you know three four or five page
long CVS so keep it nice and concise so
they can read it quickly now I should
just quickly mention that if you want to
see this CV template in a bit more
detail head over to this page here on
the standard CV website I'll put that
link in the description below this video
but it has a lot more detail around this
CV and it also has on the site we have a
school levy CV example we have a
graduate CV example and CV examples from
lots of different industries that you
might find helpful so once you've got a
nice professional-looking and easy to
read format for the CV you then need to
structure it in a way that is logical
for readers so that they're getting the
right information in the right order so
start off with your name and contact
details at the very top of the CV the
reason they're at the top is because you
don't want recruiters to miss your
contact details there's no point having
a really good CV and hiding your
telephone number down the bottom so make
them nice and clear at the top just
include your location your telephone
number and your email address because
that's all you need you don't need to
include things like date of birth and
full address because they're not needed
at this stage of the application and
they'll just waste space then add a
personal profile so this is an
introductory paragraph that just
summarizes your offerings
you know tells people a little bit about
your your skills and background and what
you can bring to the role this idea is
to kind of attracts people hook their
attention and get them to dedicate some
more time to reading the rest of your CV
then add a core skills and achievements
section so this is just a bullet pointed
section they'll highlight some of your
really important skills for the job
you're applying for and some things
you've achieved both in and out of
school they're going to look impressive
and get people's attention then you want
to list your education detailing you
know the schools you've been to the
grades you've got whether it's GCSE
a-levels or whatever it might be
and then you know if you don't have much
experience what's really good is to add
a really good hobbies and interests
section because you know there's lots of
things probably within your hobbies that
you can draw out lots of skills lots of
achievements or some knowledge that are
actually going to be relevant and you
can transfer them into into the
workplace in the future so let's start
by looking at the first proper content
of the CV which is the professional
profile so the profile is an
introductory paragraph that sits at the
very top of the CV and its aim is to
hook recruits attention when they first
open up the CV you know tell me a bit
about you and ensure they stick around
to read the rest of the CV so what you
want to do here is just give a nice
overview of you know why you're suitable
for the roles they're looking for in a
nice quick few lines so they then read
the rest of the CV so the type of
content you need to include within the
profile are things like your education
so your education is obviously very
important as somebody who has no
experience because that's where the bulk
of your skills and knowledge are going
to come from so you need to talk about
you know the level of education you've
had so whether it's college or school
the type of exams you've done the sort
of results you've got the sort of
subjects you've studied in to give
people a nice idea of your educational
background you also need to talk about
your objective so for example this CV
this person is trying to get into the
finance industry so they talk a bit
about you know why they want against
that industry and more importantly why
they think they'd be good at it relevant
skills so obviously that's another thing
that's very important so this person is
talking about their mathematics skills
you know they're and their numeracy and
things like that because they're gonna
be important to finance roles so you
need to find out what skills are
important to the roles you're applying
for and then try and get some of those
skills into the profile your soft skills
so soft skills are things that are less
tangible so things like communication
teamwork so you know not specific to a
particular role but they're still
important in the workplace so you need
to talk about those you know you can get
those from things you've done in school
things you've done outside of school
hobbies etc so you know if you play
sports that you know that would mean
that you've got a good teamwork
background
achievements so you know anything you've
achieved particularly in school so
whether it's high grades within a
particular subjects or it's being part
of a club you know anything that
especially if it's relevant to the role
you're applying for try and get those
sorts of things in there once you've
written your CV profile you need to add
a core skills and achievement section so
what this section is is a very simple
bullet-pointed list of skills that are
relevant to the roles you're applying
for but also just some sort of Germany
impressive achievements so again this is
a very simple section but the effect it
has is because there's such short sharp
points it's very very hard for someone
to miss those points when they open up
the CV so just make sure that the most
important things get noticed by the
recruiters who are reading your CV so
for example this person is applying for
finance roles so they if you know
they're going to the fact that they
could amass but they've also got some
sort of generally impressive things and
there as well so you know their GCSE
grades the fact there are volunteer the
fab a pond the science award before at
school and those are just going to help
people notice those achievements and
those skills then we come to your
education section so obviously the idea
here is to give employers a good idea of
your education so what you've done in
school and what you've achieved so the
sort of things you need to include here
are you know the schools or colleges
you've attended and the dates and the
subjects you studied in the grades you
achieved so you know if you did GCSEs or
a-levels you know get them in there and
and talk about the grades you achieved
and also you know you can also add
details around modules and projects so
if you're for example applying to
science-based roles and you did some
really in-depth science work you can
talk about that a bit more to show a bit
more of your knowledge and expertise in
that area you don't need to do that but
it's it's just nice to do a few if
you've got a specific area you're going
for and you've got more detail you can
talk about and also your extracurricular
activities so employers love to see
people who are proactive who go out
there and do things and achieving so
you've been member of a sports team or
if you've led an after-school Club or
been a prefect or something like that
you know that just shows employers that
you're willing to go the extra mile and
makes you look like a better chance of
being a good candidate so the last
section you need to include in your CV
is your hobbies and interests so hobbies
and interests give you
a good opportunity to talk about some of
the skills and knowledge that you've
picked up outside of school so you know
things that you wouldn't have been able
to talk about from you know simply your
education alone
so some really good things to include
our sports pursuits so you know if you
play for a team or you play an
individual sport that's a great way of
showing how motivated and dedicated you
can be and also there's a whole host of
skills that come within that as well so
things like teamwork communication and
that kind of thing then you've got other
clubs as well so perhaps you might be a
Scouts or you take part in a Chess Club
you know again just shows how dedicated
you are and again there are lots of
skills that you can talk about the
relate to you know things in the work
place then you've got volunteering so if
you perhaps volunteer for a charity or
something like that you know again it
shows you a good character and you're
motivated you go out there and do things
but it also there's a whole host of
skills again that come with volunteering
so you know dealing with the public
perhaps dealing with transactions you
know again all things that can be
closely related to various jobs and then
you've got work related hobbies so this
could be something like if you are
applying for IT roles and you like to
make websites in your spare time
and obviously that's a great way to show
you have lots of relevant skills so just
think about your hobbies and interests
of things you do outside of school and
how you can tie them into the jobs
you're applying for
now if you're thinking about writing
your CV and you're just thinking to
yourself well I just don't really have
enough to go in there then you know
that's that's very common for
inexperienced people so there are a
couple of things you can do to improve
your CV you know before you've even got
started
so the first thing is to get some
volunteer work now obviously nobody
likes to work for free but if you can
approach some local businesses or
charities or even your old schools or
college and you know just offer your
services free most people will jump at
the chance to get the extra help you'll
get lots of experience and you'll be
able to add it to your you know to your
CV to show some more skills that you
have the second thing you can do is do a
vocational course so if you're applying
for finance roles for example you could
take an accounting course you know and
even you don't have to have completed it
when you've started it you can put that
on your CV straight away and say look
I'm studying for this and it just shows
that you're more dedicated to that role
and it shows you've got more of the
skills that they need so those are the
two things you can do to improve your CV
straightaway so that brings me to the
end of this video on how to write a CV
when you have no experience I hope you
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