CV Template
Why track your CVs?
Over a season your CV keeps changing. You tailor it for a sector, add a new role, rewrite a weak section. By the time an interview comes round, it is easy to forget which version that firm actually read.
- Interviewers ask about what is on the CV in front of them, not the one you have now.
- Without a record, you cannot tell which changes got you further.
- LucidTrack keeps every version and remembers which one went where. The next four tips show how.
Keep every version
Save each change as a new version in Documents instead of writing over the old one. The old ones are your record of what each firm saw.
- Name versions by sector and month, such as Finance, Oct 2026.
- Documents holds up to 10 CVs, ready to attach to any application.
- Upload each one as a PDF so it can be attached and scanned.
Record which one you sent
Each time you apply, open the application and pick the CV you used from the picker in its sidebar. It takes a few seconds and saves guessing later.
- Before an interview, reread the exact CV the interviewer has in front of them.
- If a firm replies months later, you know what they saw.
- Applying to the same firm next year, you can see what you sent last time.
See which version works
Once your applications have CVs attached, CV Performance in Statistics shows how far each version gets: past screening, to interview, to an offer.
- Spot the version that gets you interviews and build on it.
- Test a change: rewrite one section, send the new version, and compare.
- Retire versions that keep stalling at screening.
Check each version with the CV Scanner
Before you send a new version, run it through the CV Scanner. It scores the CV out of 100 and checks it for impact, bullets, style and brevity, so you know it is ready before a firm sees it.
- Every check is scored separately, so you can see exactly where a version loses marks.
- It quotes the three things worth fixing first, straight from your CV.
- Where the evidence is missing, it asks the questions that would fill the gap.
- Scan each version you save, then compare its score with how far it gets in CV Performance.
How to fill it in
Name and contact details
Your name at the top, then one line of contact details.
- Use a professional email address, ideally your university one or firstname.lastname.
- Set a custom LinkedIn URL and make sure your profile matches your CV.
- Leave out your photo, date of birth and full address. Your town is enough.
Education
Most recent first. For each: institution, location, qualification, grade and dates.
- Give your predicted or expected degree classification, plus any first-year result that helps.
- List A Levels (or equivalent) with each grade.
- Add relevant modules or a dissertation only when they match the role.
- GCSEs can be a single line, such as 10 GCSEs at A*-A including Maths and English.
Employment history
Most recent first. Company, location, job title and dates, then two or three lines on what you did.
- Start each line with a verb and end it with the result. Numbers make it concrete.
- Part-time jobs count. Retail and hospitality show reliability and working with customers.
- Where you held several roles at one company, list them under the one company name, as the template does.
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Volunteering
Same format as employment history.
- Include committee roles in societies and sports clubs here.
- Say what changed because of you, not only what the role was.
Skills and interests
Short labelled lines rather than a paragraph.
- Languages: give each a level, such as native, fluent or conversational.
- Affiliations: societies, memberships and professional bodies.
- Interests should be specific. "Half marathon runner" says more than "Sport".
Programming languages, frameworks and software
Optional. Keep it for technical and engineering roles, and delete it otherwise.
- Group by type, for example languages, frameworks and tools.
- Only list what you could answer questions on in an interview.