Employers rarely expect a fresh graduate to have a long job history, so they look for other signs: can you learn, finish what you start and work with people? Those signs are often already in your life. A final-year project, a society you helped run, industrial training (SIWES), a church or community role and a campus business are all real evidence.
What goes first matters. Lead with the section that speaks most directly to the job advert, not the one a template puts first. If the role matches your project work, projects can follow a short profile. For a general trainee role, education and internships may come first.
The usual mistakes are easy to fix: a vague objective that could belong to anyone, hobbies that tell the reader nothing, an informal email address, and entries such as “Member, Drama Society” with no hint of what you did. This is one part of our wider CV creation and writing service.
Who our graduate CV writing is for
- Final-year students preparing to apply
- Recent university and polytechnic graduates
- Graduates applying for trainee programmes
- Students seeking SIWES or internship places
- Graduates who have sent many CVs and heard nothing
- Graduates moving into a field unrelated to their degree