Fresh graduate CV outline

Use this after (or while waiting for) your free expert CV review on Africoders.

Header

• Full name
• City / country (or “Open to remote”)
• Email · phone · LinkedIn · GitHub / portfolio

One-line positioning

One sentence: who you are + what you want next. Example: Computer Science graduate seeking a junior backend role; comfortable with Laravel, SQL, and shipping small projects.

Education

• Degree, school, graduation year
• Relevant coursework (3–5 max)
• Capstone / thesis (one line + outcome)

Projects (lead with these if you have little work experience)

For each project:

1. Name — what it does in one line
2. Your role — what you owned
3. Stack — languages / tools
4. Outcome — users, speed, learning, or link

Skills

Group by: Languages · Frameworks · Tools · Soft skills (keep soft skills short)

Experience / volunteering / internships

• Role · org · dates
• 2–4 bullets: action → result (numbers when honest)

Extra (optional)

Certifications, languages, open-source, hackathons

Tip: Match the first 3 bullets of your CV to each job you apply for — without inventing experience.