How to Write a CV for Your First Job (With No Experience)

A CV is a one-page summary that tells an employer who you are, what you have studied and what you can do. You do not need work experience to write a good one.

What to include

1. Name and contact: full name, mobile number, email, city.
2. Career objective (2–3 lines): the job you want and what you bring. Example: "Hardworking B.Com graduate with good knowledge of Tally and MS Excel, looking for an accounts assistant role."
3. Education: latest first — course, school or college, board or university, year, percentage.
4. Skills: computer skills, languages, typing speed, and job skills such as Tally, sales or customer handling.
5. Projects, training or part-time work: a computer course, an internship, helping in a family shop, college events you organised.
6. Achievements and certificates: CCC, O Level, NCC, sports, scholarships.
7. Languages: Hindi, English and any other.

What to leave out

• Father's name, religion, caste and marital status — not needed for private jobs
• A long "declaration" paragraph
• Skills you cannot actually show in an interview
• Fancy fonts, colours and borders

Rules that make a CV look professional

• One page for a fresher
• One simple font, 11 or 12 size
• Check spelling twice; ask someone else to read it
• A sensible email address using your name
• Save it as a PDF named "YourName-CV.pdf"

Change the CV for each job

Read the job description and bring the matching skills to the top. A CV sent for a sales job and one sent for a data-entry job should not be identical.

The quick way

The LKOJobs free CV builder asks you simple questions one at a time — in Hindi or English — suggests skills and ready sentences for your job role, and prepares the CV for you. You can start without signing up.

Before the interview

• Carry two printed copies of your CV and your original certificates
• Be ready to explain every line you wrote
• Reach ten minutes early
• Never pay a "registration" or "joining" fee for a job