Your CV
Your CV allows you to summarise your education, work history, skills and experience which relate to the job you are applying for. Your skills and experience will be scored against the essential criteria in the job advert, so make sure your information is relevant.
Your work history can include:
- paid work
- volunteering work
- work experience through school or college.
You can also mention experience you have from school, college, hobbies and clubs you’ve been involved in. For example, if you helped organise a school trip or arranged a charity event you can highlight the skills you used.
We may ask you to provide your CV in an anonymised format. This will remove information that could identify you, such as your name, age or gender.
You may also be asked to only include educational qualifications which are relevant to the role you are applying. For example, professional qualifications. This is to make sure that:
- the process is fair
- irrelevant information is not taken into account during the selection process
How we recruit
How to write your personal statement
For some jobs you’ll be asked to provide a personal statement or statement of suitability. Find out how to stand out.
Demonstrating behaviours
Behaviours are the things that people do that result in effective performance. Read more about the behaviours we use to assess you.
Assessments and interviews
Read about the different kinds of assessments you might be asked to do, after you’ve submitted an application form.
Civil Service Success Profiles
The Civil Service recruits using Success Profiles. This means that for every role, we consider what you’ll need to demonstrate to be successful.