Resources to help you

Our guide to Filling in an Application Form  gives lists of typical questions.  

Guidelines on writing CVs and covering letters produced by the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services:

CVs and covering letters

Sample standard covering letter

Sample speculative covering letter

Sample international students covering letter

Sample disability disclosure covering letter

The Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services has produced a video giving advice about making online applications, streamed here in a choice of two formats:

• high quality (2 Mb/s), full screen
• medium quality (500 Kb/s), quarter screen.

Writing a curriculum vitae is covered through the following notes:

• How to write a CV
• Covering Letters

and our video on writing CVs available at two different quality levels:

• high quality (2 Mb/s), full screen, for on campus network
• medium quality (500 Kb/s), quarter screen, for off campus broadband.

See some examples of CVs here.

Further information and advice, including more example CVs, can also be found on the following pages of the Graduate Prospects website:

• Job application advice
• CVs and covering letters

The Careers Group at the University of London has produced useful guidance notes on writing personal statements in applications for both jobs and further study.

Careers advisers will be pleased to make constructive comments on your draft curriculum vitae - see our page on making appointments.  There is also a good reference section in the Centre which includes the following books covering both UK and USA CV and resume styles:

How to Write a CV, produced by the University of London Careers Service

CVs for Dummies by Steve Shipside and Joyce Lain Kennedy

Readymade CVs by Lynn Williams

Beyond the CV by Helen Vandevelde

Cover Letters for Dummies by Joyce Lain Kennedy

Resumes for Dummies by Joyce Lain Kennedy

The Resume Catalog by Yana Parker Asher's Bible of Executive Resumes by Donald Asher