What you can use
- Lessons on every stage from finding your strengths to the first day at work, each with a practical activity. They work on a projector, a phone or on paper.
- Printable resources: the CV Checklist, the STAR worksheet, the Interview Preparation Pack and the Application Tracker.
- The Practice Room for interview practice in pairs or alone. There’s no score, so nobody is ranked.
- Four CV examples with every section explained.
Why it’s safe to share with students
- No accounts, no sign-up and no email address, ever.
- Nothing students type is sent anywhere. Answers are kept only in the browser they’re using, and can be cleared with one button on the About page. On shared machines, ask students to clear it at the end of a session.
- No advertising. The only product we mention is our own CV template, and never on lessons about rejection, anxiety, job offers or the first day at work.
- Guidance is written for the UK. Where something differs in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, the lesson says so.
Ideas for a session
- Strengths first (20 minutes). Students work through the Strengths Finder individually, then share one experience with a partner, who suggests a skill it shows.
- Before and after (25 minutes). Use the comparisons in describing your experience. Students rewrite one line of their own.
- STAR in pairs (30 minutes). Each student builds one STAR answer, then their partner asks it in the Practice Room format and gives feedback using the self-check list.
Sharing and printing
You’re welcome to print, project and share Academy pages and resources with the people you work with, free. Please keep the CVBUFFED name on them and don’t sell them.
We don’t claim any endorsement from schools, colleges or careers organisations. If you use the Academy and have suggestions, or spot something that’s wrong, we’d like to hear: hello@cvbuffed.com.