Doing a CV for Work Experience

Dancer · July 2020

Earlier in the week I discovered that the students who are currently in year 9 (basically the year group that I am in) have to do a CV over the summer holidays to help find a Work Experience placement for next year.

At my school, all students in Year 10 have to complete a Work Experience placement for 2 weeks instead of going to school. I have some ideas in mind of what I want to do for Work Experience but I don't know which ones would be suitable either due to insurance, safeguarding or health and safety.

As you can tell by the title, I need to do a CV to help me find a placement. What should someone my age put on a CV for work experience? I wouldn't have had any jobs (well apart from volunteering) and I wouldn't have any grades or qualifications to put on it.

A CV for a 14 year old (well 15 when it comes to doing the placement) would be different to an adult doing it who would more than likely have past experience of employment and have GCSE and A-Level grades.

I have tried to look at CV examples and Kudos before but it is still really confusing.

pandalover200 · July 2020

Kasa2103 said:

Earlier in the week I discovered that the students who are currently in year 9 (basically the year group that I am in) have to do a CV over the summer holidays to help find a Work Experience placement for next year.

At my school, all students in Year 10 have to complete a Work Experience placement for 2 weeks instead of going to school. I have some ideas in mind of what I want to do for Work Experience but I don't know which ones would be suitable either due to insurance, safeguarding or health and safety.

As you can tell by the title, I need to do a CV to help me find a placement. What should someone my age put on a CV for work experience? I wouldn't have had any jobs (well apart from volunteering) and I wouldn't have any grades or qualifications to put on it.

A CV for a 14 year old (well 15 when it comes to doing the placement) would be different to an adult doing it who would more than likely have past experience of employment and have GCSE and A-Level grades.

I have tried to look at CV examples and Kudos before but it is still really confusing.

Aww bless you you can put your volunteering on there I am trying to do mine at moment after guidance that mine needs spacing and underline and I only have volunteering

Dancer · July 2020

Thank you. Not really 100% sure what ideas are actually going to likely be approved by my school. And before anyone says anything, no I cannot work with my parents or siblings. The environments are too dangerous (and one of my brothers works in a pub.) And their jobs aren't even anything related to what I want to do in the future. Not even 1% relevant.

GreenTea · July 2020

You can put volunteering on CVs, places really like it when people have it on them. You could always speak to school before you break for summer and ask for advice.
For my work experience CV I put my predicted grades and wrote (predicted) next to them all

GreenTea · July 2020

https://successatschool.org/advicedetails/506/Work-Experience-Ideas

Dancer · July 2020

Thank you @GreenTea

Eleanor · July 2020

@Kasa2103 When you have decided what type of placement you want to do, you can do an online course (lots of free ones on Future Learn, Edx) which is related to that and put that on there

Dancer · July 2020

Thank you so much for the information about online courses that I could put on the CV.

GreenTea · July 2020

For experience they only want a CV done as it's a starting point into the world of careers. I'd still suggest asking school about it because a lot schools expect different and say different as to what to put on CV

Dandelion · July 2020

When I was that age my CV basically just included like a personal profile, in which I summarised some skills that I had such as time management, organisation etc. and some examples of times I’ve shown them, mostly from attendance at school, handing in homework etc. Then I just made a table summarising the volunteering I had done and what skills I though I had got from doing them

GreenTea · July 2020

Mine was completely different. Was a short personal statement,
Then a list of skills I have
Then my grades (predicted)
And any work/ volunteering
And like the format was so alone the margin was comments about us from teachers etc

Sammy · August 2020

I tried many different sites to build mine but the best site I used was Indeed cv builder as that will also make it look nice and build template

Azziman · August 2020

I'd put your subjects and grades, any work/volunteering, any hobbies/clubs you're a part of, any skills (music, sport, arts, dance etc), and any courses that you've done. It's not too different from a normal CV, except that you won't have proper placements, qualifications etc. Hope it goes well!x

Doing a CV for Work Experience

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