How much personal information do you put on a teen's CV?

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DD16 is keen to get a job. I've agreed to help her write her CV, and found a CV template suitable for school leavers. But something is bothering me...all her personal details (name, address, date of birth etc) will be going onto her CV, to be handed out to random members of staff at local coffee shops, garden centres, restaurants etc. It seems unwise, both from a safeguarding perspective and data protection. It feels very different to applying for an advertised vacancy and sending your CV to the company's HR department.

Is it OK for her to put all of her personal info on her CV and use it in this way, or should she just use her email address rather than her postal address?

I'd leave out her address, or just put the town. Similarly her DOB, her age is obvious from her education and experience. When I did a cv for my DD, I put my phone number on it. You could put her email on, or create one for this.

As long as she's under 18, potential employers need to know her age, because there may be things she can't legally do.

Date of birth isn’t relevant for any cv as it can allow potential employers to discriminate due to age

Thank you. In that case, perhaps we'll just put on our town instead of our full address, her age rather than DOB, and my phone number/email address rather than hers. I thought I was being neurotic, but maybe not!

I agree with all points aside from contact details. If a potential employer is calling up someone about a job they don't want to speak to their mum!

As an adult woman I don't have my DOB or my address on my CV, just an email number and phone number. I'd not bother with her age, if she gets offered a job they can check with her then and her town is also irrelevant.

Please don’t put your phone number on it. As a previous poster said, no potential employer wants to speak to ‘mum’.

Name, age, town, DD's email and mobile no. As pp said - if a potential employer wants to contact her they need to speak to her not mum.

I'd not bother with her age, if she gets offered a job they can check with her then

If they don't know she's 16 then they probably won't bother contacting her. Competition is steep.

Good luck to your DD, OP.

Name, DOB and phone number and possibly email. No need to put anything about their address if you don't want to.

No handed out CV should have personal details on.

In my opinion, CVs should also not have a name on. It releases age discrimination as well as gender.

Applying for a job as 'Susan' or Keith' gives your age and gender away immediately. Also potentially your race.

They should all only denote experience and quals, location via the first part of your postcode, and en email address. This should be normalised imo.

I have my professional contact details on mine, not personal ones. Could you and DD get a 'work' email address and phone, that way she's contactable but not sharing personal information with strangers?

lol at you putting your phone number on

She's clearly not mature to work if you feel the need to do that

Almost all coffee shops, garden centres etc are going to prefer someone to email them, not hand in a random piece of paper with a CV - it’ll get binned. She’s better off going round the various places and asking for the contact details of the person to email who does hiring. Then she’s not giving her contact details out to randoms, but targeting the right people. This does require her to have a bit more of a conversation with people, but that’s a good thing.

Don't put your phone number or email on it. I used work recruiting large numbers of staff and the ones that were mums doing it for kids putting the mums phone number and email wouldn't make it far through the process. If she's old enough for a job then she's old enough to put on her details. You don't need DOB or address anyway.

I used to work on one of those and they definitely didn't put unsolicited CVs in the bin and I don't think I can remember a time they had to advertise for weekend and casual staff as they had a file of people to contact

Obviously they did have to have a contact number on, the sort of staff wouldn't have been accessing emails

Full DOB and full address is not necessary, age and town is fine. However it should be your DDs contact details on a CV or application as an employer might question her maturity and suitably for employment if all contact goes through her mum.

Thanks everybody. We've written the CV now but used DD's phone number and email address rather than mine.

Now to go round the shops...we'll print a few off to hand out when asked, but also ask for the email address of the recruitment person and email her CV in.