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Graduate CV templates

Graduate CV templates that lead with what you have.

Graduate CVs face the worst ATS rejection rates because they're often built in colourful Canva templates that confuse parsers. PerfectCV's graduate-friendly templates flip that — single-column, plain typography, and section ordering that puts education, projects, and internships in the right places.

Graduate Fresh is built specifically for graduates and recent leavers. Education leads, employment is reframed as paid + unpaid + project work where useful, and the executive summary block highlights what you've actually done (degree, society, internship outcomes) rather than "motivated self-starter" filler. The structure pushes recruiters toward the strongest part of your application — your academic record — first.

If you have a part-time job, voluntary work, a final-year project, or a society leadership role, those land in employment / additional information sections — not buried in a personal-statement paragraph. The rewrite quantifies what's quantifiable (team size, fundraising amount, study group size, hackathon placements) and leaves the rest factual. Where dates are partial ("summer 2024"), we preserve them rather than guessing.

British English by default, no banned-word clichés ("passionate", "results-driven", "team player" — all blocked at the prompt level so they never appear in your output). The output is a Word document a recruiter can drop into any ATS without parsing errors, and a hiring manager can read at a coffee-shop table without zooming in.

Common graduate-CV pitfalls we fix: Canva templates with sidebars that ATS engines silently drop, "Skills & Interests" mash-ups that mix programming languages with hobbies (parsers can't separate them), and one-line job entries with no bullets that give a recruiter nothing to ask about. Graduate Fresh restructures all of these into a recruiter-friendly form.

Modern ATS Classic also works for graduates targeting professional services or finance grad schemes — the tone is slightly more conservative. £2 one-off, optional cover letter add-on if you're applying to a specific scheme and want a one-pager tailored to it. Files are deleted seven days after delivery; no account, no follow-up sales emails.

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