CV with no experience: a sample, tailored to the job
Experience isn't only a paid job. Helping in a family business, volunteering, running your own social media page: all of it goes on a CV, written just like a job. And because a first CV is short, every line has to answer this particular vacancy.
What the job ads keep asking for
- In many vacancies experience is "preferred", not required.
- Willingness to learn: many companies train on the job.
- Responsibility, punctuality, teamwork.
- Communication and dealing with customers.
- Basic computer skills: Word, Excel or Google Sheets.
- Languages, often English or Russian.
- Being open to shift work.
From current vacancies posted on jobs.ge.
The words a recruiter scans for
- customer service
- volunteering
- courses and certificates
- Excel
- Google Sheets
- English
- driving licence
- shift work
The CV almost everyone sends
A general CV, the kind most people send unchanged to every vacancy. It's only an example: the person, companies and numbers are made up.
Nika Bakradze
Entry level: customer service and sales
Summary
Finished school in 2025 and looking for my first job. For 3 years I helped in my family's shop, volunteered, and set up the shop's Facebook page. English B2.
Experience
Helping in the family shop (weekends) · Grocery shop, Zestaponi 2022 – 2025
- Served customers and worked the till.
- Received deliveries and checked them against the waybill.
- Set up the shop's Facebook page; it reached 1,200 followers in 8 months.
Volunteer · Ertad, local charity 2024
- Collected and handed out aid to 120 families.
- Drew up the volunteers' shift rota in Google Sheets.
Education
Secondary school, Zestaponi Public School No. 2, 2025 · Online course: Excel for beginners, 2025
Skills: Customer service, till, Google Sheets, Excel (basic), running a Facebook page, driving licence (B)
Languages: Georgian (native), English (B2), Russian (A2)
One person, two jobs, two CVs
VacancySales consultant (experience preferred)
Asks for: Customer service, till, MS Word and Excel, punctuality, teamwork.
Nika Bakradze
Sales consultant with till experience
Summary
For 3 years I helped in my family's shop: served customers, worked the till and received deliveries. English B2, basic Excel.
Experience (top bullets)
- Served customers and worked the till.
- Received deliveries and checked them against the waybill.
- Collected and handed out aid to 120 families.
Skills: Customer service, till, Excel (basic), English (B2)
What changed: The family shop is real experience, with exactly the skills the vacancy asks for: customers, the till, stock. So it comes first and opens the summary.
VacancySMM assistant (entry level)
Asks for: Social media, content, writing, willingness to learn; Canva and CapCut a plus.
Nika Bakradze
Entry-level SMM assistant
Summary
I set up and ran my family shop's Facebook page: it reached 1,200 followers in 8 months. English B2, I work in Google Sheets, and I'm ready to learn Canva and CapCut.
Experience (top bullets)
- Set up the shop's Facebook page; it reached 1,200 followers in 8 months.
- Drew up the volunteers' shift rota in Google Sheets.
- Served customers and worked the till.
Skills: Running a Facebook page, Google Sheets, English (B2)
What changed: The Facebook page, one bullet on the general CV, is now the headline and the summary. Nika hasn't learned Canva, so the CV doesn't claim it: it says he's ready to learn.
Before you hit send
- "Experience" isn't only paid work: a family business, volunteering, a school or university project, your own page. Write it like a job: what you did and what came of it.
- Many vacancies list experience as "preferred". That means you can still apply without it, if you meet the rest.
- One page, tailored: a first CV is short, so every line should answer this vacancy.