“No experience” almost never means nothing to show. It means your evidence is not in the shape of a job title — so you change the shape of the CV, not the truth of it.
Reorder the page
- 1Summary — three lines: what you are training for, your strongest concrete proof, the role you want.
- 2Education — degree or course, institution, years, plus two or three lines on relevant modules, grades or a thesis.
- 3Projects — the section that replaces experience. Coursework, personal builds, volunteering, competitions, events you organised.
- 4Work of any kind — retail, hospitality, warehouse, tutoring, family business. Reliability and customer contact are real skills.
- 5Skills — tools you can actually use, plus languages.
- 6Extras — certifications, driving licence if relevant, availability.
Write projects like jobs
Give each project a title, a timeframe, and two bullets: what you built or ran, and what happened as a result. Scope counts as a result when there is no revenue attached.
“Course project — delivery route planner (spring 2026). Built a Python tool that cut a 40-stop route by 18% versus the manual plan. Presented to a class of 60 and a visiting logistics manager.”
Things that hurt
- Padding to two pages. One strong page is more convincing.
- Listing school subjects unless you left school in the last year or two.
- Soft-skill lists with no evidence: “team player, hard-working, motivated”.
- Apologising for inexperience anywhere on the page.