Your CV provides an overview of your personal and professional career. It is a bullet-point list of your education, training and career stages as well as your skills and knowledge.

The resume should

• comprise a maximum of 2 DIN A4 pages
• be up-to-date, error-free, meaningful and without gaps
• be prepared in tabular form. The tabular form has established itself as the standard in Germany.
• be written anti-chronologically (start with the most recent activity)
• be a perfect fit for the position in question. Above all, choose the qualifications, knowledge and professional experience that are relevant to the position.
• be divided into thematic blocks by means of headings
• Include information on language skills and other skills (IT, IT, driving license or soft skills).
  Rate your language skills with the levels "basic knowledge", "good", "fluent", "business fluent" and "native speaker" and your IT/programming skills with the levels "basic knowledge", "good", "very good" and "constantly in use". "constantly in use".

Avoid exaggeration: only include competencies and skills where you have at least advanced beginner or intermediate level.

Formal criteria (recommendation):

Font sizes:
Title & Name: 20Pt
Headings: 13Pt
Text: 11Pt
Date: 10Pt

Margins & line spacing
L Page margin: 2 to 2.5 cm
R margin: 1.5 to 2 cm
Top and bottom: 2 - 2.5 cm

EXTRAS:

• Stays abroad (intercultural experience) as well as publications, references, scholarships or awards can be relevant for the position and should be listed.
• Optionally, hobbies, personal interests or voluntary work can be listed. It is important that these activities are specified and, if possible, include (social) skills relevant to the job. include. E.g. traveling to francophone countries to learn the language or volleyball with a coaching function in club xy.

How to deal with gaps in the CV

• Gaps must be avoided, but under a duration of up to six months they are usually not problematic.
• Longer periods of time off should be used sensibly, for example by acquiring specialist knowledge, taking language courses, volunteering or completing internships. Longer trips to get to know the language and culture of a culture of a country can also serve as "gap fillers." -
• Longer periods of unemployment should be phrased positively, such as "vocational reorientation," "seeking work," or "educational travel"
• If there is a longer gap in the curriculum vitae due to a flight to Germany, this period can be indicated in years, for example, as "Flight from name of country & asylum procedure" including integration or German courses attended during this time.

To the complete application instructions (German)
To the complete application guide (Engl.)