Contact details
Start with the email address where you want us to send your CV and private edit link.
Experience
Add any work or activity that shows what you can do. Choose a role and the app will suggest suitable tasks and achievements.
Skills
We have used your experience and qualifications to suggest skills and software. Choose only the ones that are genuinely true for you.
1 Common skills to consider
These are useful starting points, not claims about you. Select at least one genuine skill; three or more gives a stronger CV when you have suitable evidence.
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2 Your selected skills
For each skill, choose how confident you feel and where you have demonstrated it. A written example is optional.
3 Software and digital tools
Software is optional. Leave this section empty if there is nothing useful to add. If you select a tool, choose both proficiency and years used, or remove it before continuing.
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4 What would you like to improve next?
Choose one to four areas. This creates a simple next-step plan and does not weaken your CV.
5 Work preferences
Choose only options you would genuinely consider. Work location and working pattern are shown separately so neither is missed.
Type of work and setting
Where you want to work
Working pattern
Qualifications and training
Add qualifications, training, licences or certificates. If you do not know an exact grade, date or provider, you can leave it blank.
This does not prevent the CV from using experience, skills, projects and interests as evidence.
Your personal profile
Your profile is the short introduction at the top of your CV. It tells an employer what you are good at, what motivates you and what kind of opportunity you want next.
1 Evidence already available
2 Which descriptions genuinely fit?
Choose one to three. Suggestions linked to earlier answers appear first, but only select descriptions that feel accurate and can be supported by evidence.
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3 What motivates you?
Choose up to three.
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4 Interests and activities
Choose up to five. These are used selectively so the statement stays professional.
Help me think of useful interests
Include genuine activities that show curiosity, commitment or personality: coding, gaming projects, fixing bikes, 3D printing, drawing, sport, music, cooking, caring, community activity, photography or making things.
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5 What should the statement emphasise?
Choose one to three. The available evidence decides how each priority is written.
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6Bring your personality to life
Choose one honest answer for each question. These choices help the statement sound like a real person rather than a list of adjectives.
7 Work areas that sound interesting
Choose up to five broad areas that genuinely interest you. These choices improve the role suggestions below. You can also select that you are not sure yet.
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8 Career direction and target roles
This list changes when the current goal or role level changes.
Target roles
Select a suggested role to place it into the next available box. Add up to six roles, or clear them and start again.
9Statement style and a proud example
These final choices change the tone and help the draft show personality without making unsupported claims.
Statement style
Optional: something they are proud of
Only add information that is true and appropriate for a CV.
We will bring together the experience, qualifications, skills and choices you have already added. Select Build my personal statement below, then read and edit the draft so it sounds like you and stays completely accurate.
10Personal statement draft
This is created using fixed writing rules and the participant's saved evidence. It does not use an AI service. Read it carefully and edit anything that does not sound natural or accurate.
The answers have changed. Rebuild the statement to include them.
Step 6
Choose how your CV is structured
The CV stays front and centre. Select a layout tab to compare genuine one-column, two-column and three-column structures immediately.
The layout changes columns, section order, spacing and the prominence of skills, projects, links and qualifications.
Choose the CV layout
Select the structure that makes the strongest evidence easiest to find. The finished CV is securely emailed; it is not downloaded from this screen.
Visual preview only. The content cannot normally be selected, copied or dragged. The finished PDF will be securely emailed.
Professional links
Add a portfolio, LinkedIn profile, personal website, GitHub account or another professional page. Included links appear in the live CV preview immediately.
Links save automatically when they are added, updated or removed.
Final checks and secure email delivery
Review the important details, confirm the email address and then securely email the finished two-page CV.
1CV readiness check
Your edit hub. A secure return link opens this page so any section can be updated before another CV is emailed.
2Confirm the delivery address
your saved email address
Check the saved address above. Confirm it is correct, then enter it once more as a final typing check. Choose Change email address when it needs correcting.
This must match the saved delivery address exactly.
No participant download button is provided. Check spam or junk folders after sending.
3Personal-information check
Before sending, make sure free-text boxes do not contain unnecessary sensitive information.
- National Insurance numbers
- Bank or payment details
- Passwords or access codes
- Detailed medical information
- References’ private details without permission
- Anything that is not accurate or appropriate for an employer
4Anonymous CV options
Some employers use anonymous recruitment. Remove only the details the employer has asked you to leave out. Your CV will still be emailed to your saved address.
The PDF will show “Candidate” when the name is removed. The delivery email is not affected.
5Complete and email
Essential service emails are used only to deliver, edit or delete this CV. Optional future employability emails are managed through an Email preferences / Unsubscribe link in email footers.
Data and privacy
Inactive data is archived after 12 months and permanently deleted after 24 months. You can request earlier deletion.
Congratulations - check your email
Your finished CV has been securely emailed to your saved email address.
Open the attached PDF and keep the private return link. Check spam or junk folders if it does not arrive shortly.
Optional Custom CV Design - £5
Your free CV is already ready to use. Learn how HWB can turn the same evidence into a more individual visual design, normally delivered within 48 hours of confirmed payment.
A parent, carer, school or authorised youth professional can contact HWB to discuss suitable support without sharing the participant's saved CV data automatically.
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