Here at Graduateships we have a lot of empathy for all of you who need to get a new job because of COVID-19 or graduates looking for your first job. To make things a little bit easier, we decided to share a number of templates and advice for how to make the best CV and cover letter. We also added an overview of all the interviews we did with top company recruiters. This should help you create the perfect CV template fitted for the Danish market especially as a graduate.
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CV Templates for the Danish market
How long will a recruiter spend looking at your CV? You might spend hours filling in your Danish CV template, but recruiters often have piles of CV letters to weed through. One study from 2012 found that recruiters look at your resume for six seconds.
If you make critical errors when writing your CV, you’ll be pushed to the bottom of potential candidates.
Your CV needs to be professional, and only creative to that extend that it matches the job position. You need to make your expertise and skills standout so that you have a chance to be interviewed.
But first, we have taken examples from the best universities and companies in the world (Harvard, Standford, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey & Co) and shared their CV templates with you! Click the images to download the template.
Mads Faurholt (MIT, McKinsey Template)
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Goldman Sachs
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Harvard
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Stanford
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The importance of perfect
Your CV opens the door to a potential career. You can use a general CV template to send to recruiter, but it’s important to personalize your CV for each position. Since you have only seconds to impress a potential employer, you may want to reorder your experience or skills so that the employer sees the education, experience and skills they’re looking for higher up on your CV.
Small changes can mean the difference between getting interviewed or never hearing back from a potential employer.
Therefore it is clear, that you need to optimize every bit. To help you with that, Graduateships talked to a number of recruiters to gain some insight on how to best write a strong CV for the Danish market.
Ex-recruiters for top companies on how to write a strong CV for the Danish market
One of the most prominent people who participated in our interviews was former director of the Novo Nordisk graduate programme. Read beneath her tips:
Do not just apply these tips for writing your cv and cover letter, we have plenty of more tips from recruiters. Graduateships have been sitting down with a dozen of talent managers from some of the biggest graduate companies in Denmark. Here, they give insights on what things to focus upon to achieve the results you want.
We created a list of the recruiters we talked to which you can find below.
Recruiter | Title | Company | Interview year (link to article) |
Ditte Mi Petræus | Recruitment Specialist | Demant | 2020 |
Caroline Sehested | Former People & Organisation Director | Novo Nordisk | 2020 |
Ashlee Shaun Meyer | Talent Development Consultant | TDC | 2020 |
Emily Nowicki | Talent Attraction Advisor | PwC | 2020 |
Mette Bruun Hesselvig | Graduate Programme Manager | GN Store Nord | 2020 |
If you’re a graduate, whether from Denmark or international, it can give an edge to your application if you know the tweaks, do’s and don’ts for your cv, which was what we aimed to give. Hopefully, you will find the interviews as interesting as we did creating them. Best of luck with your applications!
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