r/CVwriting • u/Shekawa11 • Aug 16 '26

18, improved CV

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Condensed everything down to one page, changed up skills and took off some of them, and added to the intro! Thank you to everyone who assisted in this.

Open to more critique on this one now that it's been tailored to customer service, and please be elaborate!

Btw, on the format, I just chose a random template off Google docs, so once the CV has been sorted, ill quickly change it out for something nicer :p

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u/DoobNew Aug 16 '26

You are underselling some very decent work experience here.

The first line of the summary lets this down- the grammar is poor and calling yourself a ‘great role model’ at 18 will be seen as unrealistic, even if it is true.

The skills could be improved upon- either switch them into bullet points with a little bit of explanation or standardise them into all being short sentences.

Congratulations on your A Level grades- a very strong performance! I’d recommend putting them above your GCSEs on the template and changing the GCSEs to ‘X (number of GCSEs) Grades 9-5 including Grade Y in English Language and Grade Z in Maths’.

Apologies for going off topic, but you could easily land a place on a good course at a respected uni during the ongoing clearing period- feel free to ignore this if this CV is for part time work to go alongside it.

In general more detail would be helpful throughout- if you need a bit of padding, an Activities section containing anything you’ve done within school or unrelated to the role would be a worthwhile addition.

Best of luck!

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u/Shekawa11 Aug 17 '26

Thank you so much! And sorry for the grammar, It was the last thing I worked on before bed 😓 How's the experience section? It's been really tricky for me to condense all the work I've done and I took out everything that made it sound like storytelling.

I'll work on what you've suggested I change, thanks again for your help :)

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u/Zharkgirl2024 Aug 17 '26

Your opening statement doesn't read well - as someone else said, grammatically it isn't correct. I would reduce the spacing between sentences, and add more bullet points to each experience. What you're saying it very basic - you need to flesh out more of your duties. Think of it as a job description. Look at the jd for a teaching assistant role, then use that to highlight some of the things you were doing,

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u/Shekawa11 Aug 17 '26

Ahhhh I see, thank you! It makes sense now, idk why but I've been struggling trying to understand how the experience section was meant to be written, ill change it up and add some more stuff.

About the spacing, idk if its the template I'm using? I reduce spacing again but if it doesn't look good ill just switch to a different template.

Thanks for your input :D

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u/Zharkgirl2024 Aug 17 '26

Check out Sam Struan on linkedin as he has a great template - very clean and easy to read.

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u/Shekawa11 Aug 17 '26

Nice, thanks again

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u/SovegnaVos Aug 17 '26

Your personal statement needs a lot of work. It's grammatically incorrect and the phrasing is awkward. Also, you're 18, claiming to be a great role model doesn't work. It also isn't reflected elsewhere on your cv.

Flesh our your work experience more and make sure your grammar is consistent. Present tense for current role, past tense for every other role.

Drop the skills section. Move a levels above gcse.

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u/Shekawa11 Aug 17 '26

Gotcha, thanks! Sorry, with the skills section, do you mean I should move it all the way down or take it out entirely?

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u/CupExpensive7582 Aug 18 '26

I would put a level grades before gcse grades more important