How to boost your CV during the holidays?

Holidays are synonymous with relaxation. But these weeks of tranquility are also the perfect opportunity to boost your CV a little. And even discover new paths. These are some helpful tips to boost your CV during the holidays.  

Go on an internship

This is the most obvious solution, but the internship is the perfect opportunity to test a company or even a profession in order to confirm or invalidate a professional career. Nothing better to avoid disappointment or refine your desires. This is an opportunity to acclimatize to life in a company or institution but also to acquire more technical skills that can only be learned by doing. The internship is also meetings, which can sometimes prove decisive later and expand your address book. Your CV will only be strengthened.  

Learn a language abroad or at home

To improve your English, several solutions are available to you. If you have the time – and the money – the ideal is to go abroad to immerse yourself directly in the language and learn in situ. How? The classic status of the au pair allows total immersion in the culture of a country. Be careful, however, to choose your organization and the host family carefully. Another solution, find a job or an internship to kill two birds with one stone.

If you can’t leave, there are other solutions. The BBC allows you to improve your business English . Bibliomania’s free virtual library gives you access to all the classics of English literature. Finally, to get out of your books and your screens and speak with real people. Do not hesitate to take a look at Meetup where thematic meetings around a language are regularly organized in your city.

Continue to train

There are a multitude of possibilities to continue learning even when the lessons are over. Thanks to MOOCs, you can broaden your field of skills or fill in some gaps in a wide variety of fields. All the MOOCS of French establishments are listed and classified by theme or establishment on the France Université Numérique website . For more courses in English, take a look at platforms like Coursera or edX ) which allow you to obtain certificates or diplomas from major universities.

The holidays are also the time to perfect your mastery of software like Illustrator or Photoshop . YouTube channels are dedicated to it and there are training courses calibrated over the time of  summer to acquire specific skills, such as coding with Le Wagon , for example.

Accomplish missions as a freelancer

The advantage of self-entrepreneurship is that it allows you to be in direct contact with customers and to assume even more responsibilities while having a certain freedom in your organization. But it requires great personal rigor and good organization. Some sites allow companies/institutions and students to get in touch with one-off or longer-term assignments. 

Rework your CV

The holidays are the perfect time to take stock . Add your diplomas, new experiences and other skills. Then analyze what each of these experiences and training has brought you personally & what they have developed in you. After unrolling the thread, do not hesitate to do a little sorting to keep the most relevant elements and achieve a certain consistency. Don’t forget to do the same work for the experiences that displeased you in order to be able to understand why and explain it. Finally, it’s also time to work on the form of the CV itself. To have a pleasant CV to read and look at that is not overloaded.

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