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Curriculum vitae (English)

When you apply for internships or jobs in anglophone countries, the two most important documents are the cover letter and the CV/résumé. There are some major formal differences compared to German applications.

You should not simply translate your German CV into English as there are different conventions for CVs (also called résumés in the USA) in English-speaking countries: photos are never included, and the focus should be on your relevant experience rather than you as a person.

FAU’s Career Service offers students, doctoral candidates and graduates an online checking service for English-language application documents. Simply send your CV and cover letter in Word format to career-service@fau.de. If you are responding to a specific job advertisement, please include this too. We can only check applications via e-mail.

Please note: we do not offer to prepare your application for you, we can only provide advice on improving your application. In our review we will check whether you have observed all formalities and that the language used is correct. We will also check whether both the formal and logical structure are in line with the appropriate conventions. We will give you feedback and, if required, point out what still needs improving. You can then give us your new version for another review.