With more and more people looking for work today its important that you have an up-to-date well presented Curriculum Vitae (CV). However, it may be the case that you have never had to write a CV before or you simply don’t know how to. LivingWandsworth provides a free CV writing service for all residents of Wandsworth Borough. The service works on a first come first served basis, completing about 10 CV’s a week. The time it takes for us to create a CV for you can range between 3 days and 4 weeks, but the end product will be a professional well polished CV.
We do offer an express service where we turnaround your CV in 3-7 days, the more information you provide us the quicker we can create the CV for you. The express service costs £25, and we would generally only recommend it if you urgently need a CV.
How it works
Simply send us an email at Contact@LivingWandsworth.co.uk, put CV request in the subject and include the following information
Gender | title | first name | surname |DoB | address | | nationality | email address | tel no (land & mobile)
Secondary education (11-16 e.g GCSE) | further education (16-18 e.g. A levels) | higher education (18+)
Academic grades obtained
Professional qualifications | driving licence
Languages spoken and level of fluency, spoken, written and reading
IT skills | level of proficiency | applications you can use
Groups and clubs your are part of | hobbies | interests | community orientated interests
Career objectives | where you want to be in 5 years
Key skills | areas of expertise |
Previous employment | employer details | dates of employment | job role
Work experience/voluntary positions | placement detail | dates of placement | placement role
(Optional) References | name | organisation name | address | tel number
Style of CV | simple | classic | corporate |modern | creative
Colours | black and white only | colour
Once you send us this you should get confirmation that we have received your request, and how long we expect it to take to create your CV, you should get this usually within the same day. We will begin creating your CV, if we need any further information or clarification then we will contact you. As soon as we are finished we will send you your CV in MS Word and PDF format. We will make up to 3 minor alterations, but generally we would expect you to make small alterations so that we can help other people.
Of course we will be constant adding CV templates to this page so that you can create your own, and you can as ever post a topic on the forum to get ideas an opinions from others.
How much does it cost
To create a new CV for the first time - Free
To convert an MS Word CV to PDF format - Free
To create a new CV using the express service (3-7 days) - £25
To alter an existing CV - £10
Sample CV’s
Below you will find 5 sample CV’s, each in the 5 different styles mentioned above. They are a representation of the style of CV’s we produce. The MS Word version can be changed and used as needed. The pdf version simply demonstrates how they look as pdf’s. We recommend that if you are sending a CV electronically you send it as a pdf version that way you can be sure of what the employer will see. Word versions can lose their formatting depending on the way the other persons PC and printer settings are set-up.
