Apply to USA University for Master's - Perfect CV
Hey guys, welcome. Today we're gonna talk about CVs and resumes, specifically for admissions. So if you're sitting and wondering what you should do with your CV, how do you write it? Do you need to provide all the documents to prove everything that you're mentioning, I'm going to answer all of those questions in this paper. So if you're interested, continue reading... ...
we are going to look at a template provided by Stanford University. It's a template that I've used, it's a template that you should use. And it says that for every 10 years of work experience, you should have one page of your resume. And there's a pretty formal standard that I would advise you to follow. First look at this template, you start with your first and last name. Please don't play with fonts, I know it's very tempting to download some templates from the internet and use a super creative font. But unless you're a designer, I would stick to something really formal, really easy to read. Sometimes fonts make it harder to read. So please stick to this. So your first and last name, your telephone number, and your email address. They say to use 10 for the dress, but you don't have it. Again, we're looking at Stanford's guidelines, and then you're going with a summary paragraph highlighting your accomplishments and experience in a target job role. key accomplishments or skills can be included with bullets if you're applying to your master's program. It's very important to mention, that here's something relevant to your master's program. Maybe you've done research on a topic that you're going to study, maybe you have some work experience, maybe you have some words that are worth mentioning, I have my CV ready to download together with my book, The link will be below. So basically, I mentioned all of the words that I think are worth mentioning, like opportunity awards by the US government and da D award by the German government. And similarly, visit, I won some progress that I made with my company because it was relevant to whatever I was doing and I was applying to my master's program, then you go to your experience, you start with something recent. And if you don't have any work experience, this section is replaced by your education, where you go more in-depth about your education. But if you have some experience, if you've done some internship, it's really really worth mentioning. Here you go with your organization, name, city and state. One line of organization description doesn't include four recognized firms. So if everyone knows what Mercedes Benz does, and everybody knows, you don't have to describe it because a smaller company, is less known than giving a one-liner or what it does. linguae trip is a study abroad booking platform, whatever your job title, what were you responsible for? If you were a salesperson, don't tell them that you were selling stuff, because that's obvious. Instead focus on a brief description of accomplishments, with concrete actions and quantifiable results.
I always tell you numbers, they play a magic game. And they play the Magic tricks with your application. The plan was to generate $3,000 in revenues, I generated $10,000 And I was awarded the number one salesperson in my department in 2018. the quota for typically three-five bullet points includes the budget number of people manage, if you manage people, please write that down, like manage a team of 10. If you've done something extra, I would always mention it like it as part of your sales job, you went to a conference in New York to represent your company, please put it here as well, or maybe organize something else organize the conference like mention that because that's also really important. And it talks about your experience, then mentioned your previous jobs if you have them again, in the same manner. But you don't have to be so specific.
You don't have to go into too many details about your previous jobs. Because what matters is like your recent experience, if there's something notable, like, please mention it for the previous jobs as well, if you have anything older than 10 years, but I think the majority of you won't, they offer you to create like an additional experience section where you will put organization name and title, then we're gonna go to education. So basically, this is what they're offering to Stanford graduates to use. But it's a good manner to use this to apply to Stanford or to apply to any other university. Because again, if you're taking the highest standards, I'm sure other universities will appreciate that in terms of your education. You write your degrees, tuition degree names, and subject area year, I would also write your GPA and tell them what's the scale.
So for example, I wrote five out of five so that they know that five out of five, and if you were like top 5% of class or something like that, or like a class manager if something like that exists in your country. You can also write that down because again, this is more professional. After all, this is more intended for graduates. But I love this structure. This is why we're talking about it. And I use it for all of my applications. All of my students use it for their applications, one Made your maximum really easily like you can copy-paste whatever is here, the link will be below to download this file for education, I would write everything down like your bachelor's, if you haven't your additional education, maybe you've done study abroad in your high school and your middle schools with just GPAs just mentioned them there. And that's it. And then something additional, like language competencies and community service.
In my case, I've mentioned language travel and ballet and like whatever you like to do that would add some additional information about you as a personality, a very important question, do you need to provide all the documents supporting whatever you wrote there? And no, you don't. But it should sound realistic. If you're telling them you are the winner of all the Olympians. You're a PhD at the age of 23. You've done this and they're going to be suspicious, they're not going to believe you. And I've talked to the admissions officer from one of the top universities. And she says yes, we actually, especially for like, what she said, like for some countries from Asia, they see a lot of like, something that looks like fraud to them. There are too many accomplishments that they cannot verify. When they Google a company looks like it doesn't exist. When they Google no more and looks like it doesn't exist. They cannot verify. And it looks like too many accomplishments for a 20-year-old person. And they just disregard the application because they think you are misleading them. And this is something that you should just learn about America in general. Everyone wants to believe you.
When you come to the office, you don't bring like papers with you; you just raise your hand and you swear that you're telling the truth. When we got married in San Francisco, they were like, Were you married before? Like, no. In Russia, they would tell us like bring all of your papers in America, they'd be like, Can you swear that you've never married before? Or like, yes, we can. So this is it. But if you're lying, if there's something you're intentional about, like misleading people, then they would just disregard your application. And you don't want to do that. So no, there's no need to provide additional proof. But yes, you need to be honest. And if you haven't won anything, don't write it down. Find something else. Maybe if you realize if you're looking at the CV and you're like, Oh my God, I don't have anything that she's mentioning. I don't have work experience. And I have this, this and that. Okay, if you're not applying to a top university, maybe you don't even need it. If you're ready to pay out of pocket, maybe you don't even need it. But if you're looking for financial aid, if you're looking at high-ranking universities that maybe take a year off, not off.
But take a year, when you would go and get some work experience, maybe invest more time into conferences, maybe invest more time into publications, like do something that would make your resume stand out. And this is why I'm doing this thing. This is why I'm recording this article so you could take action in advance, not like three months before your deadline. This is super important. So look at the application, you can Google some sample CVS, download the template, can download my CV together with my book where I'm talking about my admissions journey all of the links will be below thank you so much for watching this article. I hope this content was useful. If you have any more questions, please chat in the comments below. Ask questions and answer other people's questions, and it will pick up some very interesting and some common ones. If you're not yet subscribed, hit subscribe. And I will see you soon in the next articles.