How to write a CV with no experience [kick start your career]

hello and welcome to the standout CV YouTube channel in this video I'm going 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 interviews you want if you're new here don't forget to hit the red subscribe button below because I create lots of CV advice videos like this and if you're currently job searching I know you'll 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 found it helpful if you have please press the thumbs up button like the video and don't forget to subscribe to the channel we make lots of CV advice videos here and also feel free to head over to the stand our CV website I put a few links in the description for you know some more content that's going to help you learn the jobs you want [Music]

Channel: StandOut CV

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Keywords: cv no experience, student cv, school leaver cv, cv for 16 year old, cv no work experience, cv writing tips, cv, cv advice, graduate cv

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Length: 13min 37sec (817 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 29 2018