Enhance your CV
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Enhance your CV
Everything you do socially, academically and in the workplace can make you more employable. We will help you to identify and articulate these skills to prospective employers
Language skills
Whatever your degree, you can benefit from learning or improving your competence in a foreign language, gaining skills actively sought by employers. Our Foreign Language Centre at the Streatham Campus and Modern Language Studies at the Penryn Campus offer a wide range of language courses including daytime undergraduate modules as part of your degree. Most modules are available at a range of levels, from beginners to advanced. Languages include: British Sign Language, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. Please check availability at your preferred campus.
Study or work abroad
Spending time abroad as part of your degree is an ideal way to improve your CV, develop transferable skills, make new friends and travel. Exeter has over 180 partner universities worldwide offering study abroad opportunities. Alternatively, you could complete a work placement in Europe; previous students have worked in the media, tourism, charity and legal sectors. For further information see our Study abroad page.
Student activities and volunteering
You can gain excellent transferable skills and personal development opportunities through volunteering in student activities run by the Students’ Guild in Exeter and The SU in Cornwall. Experience in areas such as journalism, peer management, childcare, teaching and event management can easily be obtained through student activities. We have the highest proportion of student volunteers of any UK university and currently devote volunteering hours to the value of £141,400 each year to activities that directly benefit the local community.
The Exeter Award and Exeter Leaders Award
The Exeter Award and the Exeter Leaders Award are designed to recognise your extra-curricular achievements. Available to all University of Exeter students, they will help you develop the skills and attributes that graduate employers are looking for and give you the confidence to demonstrate them.
Support with CVs, cover letters and applications
Once you've joined the University, the Career Zone will be able to help you to enhance your CV and your applications, making them stand out and become tailored for opportunities that you're interested in. \
It might sound cliché, but the experiences you gain during a year abroad truly make you stand out. Living in another country for a year shows employers a lot about who you are - your adaptability, independence, and global perspective. In today’s competitive job market, these qualities can set you apart. I was lucky enough to land an internship at Bank of America in their sales and trading division, and I fully attribute getting this internship and converting it into a graduate offer to the year abroad.
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