A name and an email address. That is all an employer needs to reply to you. Do not put your phone number, your date of birth, your PPS number or a photo on a CV. None of them are needed to ask for work experience, and a CV gets forwarded around more than you think.

Three sentences. Who you are, what you are looking for, and one thing that is true about how you work. Employers read this bit and skim the rest, so it is worth the effort.

The school address goes on the CV rather than your home address. An employer only needs somewhere to write to and a sense that you are local.

Put in every subject you sat. If a subject was Higher or Ordinary rather than Common Level, say so, because that is information an employer or a teacher can read.

You almost certainly think you have nothing to put here. You are wrong. Babysitting counts. A team counts. Drama, music, helping in a family business. Scouts, a mini company, coaching the under tens, a coding club, a charity shop. An employer is looking for evidence that you turn up and get on with people, and all of that is evidence.

If you have already had a real job or a work placement, tick the box on it. Those get their own heading on the CV, above everything else, because that is what an employer looks for first.

Pick three or four. Then say when you actually showed it, because a CV that just says Teamwork tells an employer nothing at all.

A teacher, a coach or a club leader who would say something good about you. Ask them first. If you would rather not name anyone yet, leave this blank and the CV will say available on request, which is completely normal.