CV Help please for my 16 year old relative, fresh out of school

[Kayano]

Hi everyone,

I have been told I have a strong CV so my relative (he has SEN but not relevant hopefully!) has asked me to help with his CV as he hopes to get a saturday job or a Christmas job. He is going to college in september

He is still waiting on his GCSE results as well as other exams due to his SEN they are more vocational.

He has done some work experience and has tried so hard, he even got an award for top marks in a subject he did at a mainstream school.

I want to do the best I can for him but was hoping for CV pointers, do I put that he is going to attend college under education? Do I just write that he is currently awaiting results?

also my CV goes:
education
work experience
interests
personal statement

do I follow the same structure given he is so young and has only done a 2 week work exp placement? Or should I put his personal statement first?

any advice greatly appreciated xx

I've started to attach the personal statement in a covering letter to the front of the CV, so they go Education, Work Experience and Interests.

My family are the same with me, I've written all my cousins, siblings, parents and aunts/uncles CV's.

DH runs a small company and has just taken on an apprentice pre-results and he had an excellent CV. When asked at the interview, he said that he'd ignored his careers advisors who told him to put the very basics only. DH has seen tons of CV's that were just the title of the school they attended and a few interests like fishing and playing computer games and nothing else.

My advice would be to list the qualifications with result pending next to them. Work Experience is good even if it's only two weeks, put the details in.

Hope that helps.

I would put the personal statement first, then education, (results pending, but if he has expected results such as mocks then include them), then the work experience.

For hobbies and interests ensure that there is a clear benefit such a team work or able to work alone, rather than just, I like to fish / read / play football.

I'm thinking of writing him a generic covering letter because he isn't going for a particular job. I will tailor it for retail as this is where he is aiming for. He is just going in to a few local stores (a lot have christmas job vacancies at the minute) with his CV and itroducing himself, which is why I have put a little personal statement in there too.

I've got a lot in about his work experience because he had to work alone and in a team, I have a lot about what qualifications he has achieved as well as other things such as duke of edinbrough.

Kayano he is really, really going to need a tailored covering letter for each job he tries for, and preferably he would want to tweak his CV depending on the position too. It's so important to sell yourself for that particular position, the competition out there is so fierce.

Well I have done his CV and have drafted a tweakable covering letter. I can't tailor it any further to a particular job as I have literally no idea what jobs he is going for. Thank you so much for the advice, I've told him (and his mum) that I have the CV saved so can amend it as needed - they don't have a PC - and that I will do the cover letters if they need one for a particular job.

Thank you for all the help, I changed the order of the CV and I'm pretty pleased with it