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📄 What is a CV?
Your guide to writing your first CV
✔ Checked October 2026❓ What is a CV?
A CV (curriculum vitae) is a short document that tells an employer who you are, what you can do and how to contact you. For a first job, one page is enough.
📋 What goes on a CV
- Your name and contact details: phone, email, and your town or area
- A short personal profile of 2 to 4 sentences about you
- Your skills and qualities, such as being reliable, friendly or good with money
- School or college, and your qualifications (including ones you are working towards)
- Work experience, volunteering or part-time jobs
- Achievements and interests
- References, or "References available on request"
🚫 What you don't need
- A photo
- Your date of birth or age
- Your full home address
- Your National Insurance number
- Details of a disability or health condition, unless you choose to share them
✅ Top tips
- Keep sentences short and clear
- Use a sensible email address, ideally your name
- Change your CV a little for each job, so it matches what they ask for
- Ask a teacher or family member to check the spelling
- Save it as a PDF before you send it
📝 Make one now
Use the free TAGS IAG CV Builder. It asks simple questions one at a time and makes a print-ready CV.