Student CV: a sample for internships and first jobs

Students often think they have nothing to put on a CV. In fact a summer job, volunteering and a university project are real experience, if you write them like jobs: what you did and what came of it. And every internship needs something different at the top.

What the job ads keep asking for

  • Field of study and year: internships often look for students of a particular subject.
  • Willingness to learn and interest in the field.
  • Basic computer skills: Excel, Word, sometimes Canva or CapCut.
  • Languages, English especially.
  • Availability: internships often set hours (say, Monday to Friday, 11:00–17:00).
  • Responsibility, accuracy, teamwork.
  • For some internships a named program (FINA, say), taught on the job.

From current vacancies posted on jobs.ge.

The words a recruiter scans for

  • internship
  • student
  • part-time
  • volunteering
  • university project
  • Excel
  • English
  • flexible hours

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.

Davit Kvaratskhelia

Business Administration student, 3rd year

Summary

Third-year Business Administration (Finance) student. I've worked in Excel and on team projects, and spent summers in hospitality. Looking for an internship; available Monday to Friday, 6 hours a day.

Experience

University project: financial analysis · Tbilisi State University, finance course 2025

  • With a team of 4, assessed a local company's financial statements; placed first in the class.
  • Did the analysis in Excel: ratios and charts.

Volunteer · Business Forum 2025 student conference 2025

  • Ran registration for 300 participants with Google Forms and Excel.
  • Liaised with speakers and drew up the schedule.

Waiter (summer job) · Zghvispira café, Batumi Summers 2024 and 2025

  • Served up to 100 guests a day, including in English and Russian.
  • Counted the till at the end of each shift.

Education

BA in Business Administration (Finance), Tbilisi State University, 2023 – present · GPA 3.6

Skills: Excel (formulas, charts), Word, PowerPoint, Google Forms, Canva

Languages: Georgian (native), English (B2), Russian (B1)

One person, two jobs, two CVs

VacancyAccounting intern

Asks for: Interest in accounting, accuracy, Monday to Friday, willingness to learn; FINA taught on the job.

Davit Kvaratskhelia

Finance student, seeking an accounting internship

Summary

Third-year finance student (GPA 3.6). I work in Excel with formulas and charts, and analysed a company's financial statements in a university project. Looking for an accounting internship; available Monday to Friday, 6 hours a day.

Experience (top bullets)

  • With a team of 4, assessed a local company's financial statements; placed first in the class.
  • Did the analysis in Excel: ratios and charts.
  • Counted the till at the end of each shift.

Skills: Excel (formulas, charts), financial statement analysis, Word

What changed: The finance project leads because it's closest to accounting. From the café job only counting the till stayed: it shows accuracy.

VacancyEvents and marketing intern

Asks for: Organising, communication, Canva, languages, helping at events.

Davit Kvaratskhelia

Business student with event organising experience

Summary

Third-year Business Administration student. As a volunteer I ran registration for a 300-person student conference and the speakers' schedule. I speak English and Russian and work in Canva.

Experience (top bullets)

  • Ran registration for 300 participants with Google Forms and Excel.
  • Liaised with speakers and drew up the schedule.
  • Served up to 100 guests a day, including in English and Russian.

Skills: Event organising, Canva, Google Forms, Excel, English (B2)

What changed: The volunteering, second on the general CV, now leads. The financial analysis project came out; working with guests and the languages stayed.

Before you hit send

  • Education near the top: on a student CV it can come before experience. Give your year and, if it's good, your GPA.
  • It all counts: summer jobs, volunteering, university projects, clubs. What matters is what you did and what came of it.
  • Say when you can work: internships often set specific hours.

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