Personal Details and Education

The first section to include in your CV are your Personal Details and Education.

For your personal details, please include your phone, email, city and LinkedIn profile.

Graduation Dates

Ensure you put your university, degree and graduation date ( e.g in the above, 2020 – 2023 indicates a 2023 graduation). Graduation dates are particularly important as employers use this information for recruiting because certain roles are only available for specific graduation dates. For example, if you’re applying for an internship at a firm, they would generally expect you to be in your penultimate year of university ( second-to-last year of your degree program i.e the year before you graduate ). Sometimes on application forms you’ll see something similar in the requirements e.g

“Must be studying a STEM degree with an expected graduation date of June 2027”

Adding your graduation date to your CV can help your application get tracked by the ATS systems companies use.

Key Modules, Awards and Grades

Key modules are useful to include, especially if you’re doing a module directly applicable to the role you’re applying. For example, if you’re applying for a networking engineering role, a module in “Operating systems and Computer Networks” would be relevant to the role you’re applying for.

If you have any, make sure to include any Awards you’ve won to show that you’re a capable candidate, so make sure to include.

Note: You do not need to include your A Level grades if they put you at a disadvantage. Similar with GCSE grades, you can use this format: “Achieved 10 A* – C equivalent with Mathematics and English Language”. Be strategic – use your grades if they put you at an advantage, otherwise omit them.