Y o u r E x p erien c e Writing about your experience

Not all experience needs to be paid experience. Wri te about volunteering, shadowing, personal & uni projects, freelancing, commissions and par t time work. Employers are interested in your experience; i t doesn’t always mat ter if i t was paid or not .

Generally, i t is impor tant to put your dates reverse chronologically, i e star ting wi th most recent experience first

List dates, company name and job ti tle in bold on one line, i e

May 20 19- July 20 19: BCP Seafront Catering Assistant

B e concise - Use shor t paragraphs or bullets to describe your skills wi thin the contex t of your experience

“Think of Instagram – i f you see a great picture wi th a succinct , shor t sentence i t works. If i t is a paragraph long you scroll through – the same wi th CVs. ”

- Graduate Fa shion Week

If you are applying for a role in Graphic Design and have done some work experience in a creative studio, but your most recent job was wai tressing, put your studio experience first . Even if you were only shadowing or doing work experience, i t provides evidence of your proactivi t y and interest in the field.

Theme your experience

Use subheadings to break up your experience E g. ‘D esign Experience’. And if the rest of your experience is in retail or catering, you could call the other section “Customer Ser vice Experience”