Turn your experience into a clear CV.

You may be applying for your first job, an internship, a field placement, or a graduate opportunity. Begin with the experiences you can explain, then select the ones most relevant to that application.

Choose a useful starting point

The template gallery has business, computer science, nursing, education, social work, and other-profession examples. Pick a complete example to understand its structure, or a blank outline to begin with your own facts. First job emphasizes learning and projects. Compact reduces spacing; Simple offers a plain single column. All writing remains editable when you switch designs.

Photo and Studio sidebar offer an optional portrait. Use a photo only when it suits the application instructions. A simple single-column layout is also available. The examples use real Marquette organization names with fictional students, histories, dates, GPAs, and achievements. They do not establish employment, qualifications, placement agreements, or licenses. Read the source and example notes.

Start with what you have done

Make a list before worrying about the layout. Think about part-time work, class projects, research, placements, volunteering, caregiving skills you choose to discuss, student organizations, and community activities. You decide which experiences belong in a professional application.

Give each section a purpose

• Contact: your name, email, and optional phone, city/region, and professional links. Check every detail. You generally do not need to share a full address or sensitive identity information.
• Profile: an optional short introduction connecting your current experience to the role. Avoid broad claims you cannot support.
• Education: your qualification, institution, and completion or expected completion date. Include relevant coursework or research when useful. GPA is optional.
• Experience: explain paid work, volunteering, internships, field placements, or leadership. You can rename this section to fit its contents.
• Projects: include a class, research, technical, or community project. State your contribution when the work was shared.
• Skills: list tools and methods you can use. Show communication, teamwork, and other transferable skills through examples in your experience.
• Custom sections: add publications, presentations, languages, service, or other relevant activities when the application needs them.

Write about actions, not just duties

Use an action, the task, and a relevant result or purpose. A result does not have to be a number. Specific descriptions are more useful than inflated language.

These examples are fictional. Do not copy an activity, result, title, or number that does not describe your work.

Adapt each draft to the opportunity

Read the job description and identify the work you would actually be doing. Move relevant experience higher in your CV, explain related skills, and use familiar professional terms when accurate. The builder’s term comparison is a basic English word check; it cannot judge eligibility or interpret a job description.

Make the final document easy to read

Use clear headings and consistent dates. Put the most recent experience first within each section when that suits your application. A short résumé may be enough for an early career role; an academic CV often includes more detail. The builder supports longer documents, but the final page breaks depend on the print application or Word version.

Check before sending

1. Replace all example text and verify your name, contact details, dates, and spelling.
2. Check that your statements reflect your work and protect other people’s confidential information.
3. Follow the employer’s file-format and content instructions.
4. Open the exported Word file or PDF and check every page. For PDF, confirm that you can select and copy the text.
5. Download a draft backup. Browser storage does not transfer to another device and can be cleared.

If possible, ask your campus career services team, an instructor, or a trusted colleague to review the content before submitting it.