Write a CV that gets interviews
About the course
Most people treat their CV as a document to update and send. In reality, it is one of the most powerful tools for shaping your career. It influences interviews, opportunities, and how you are positioned in the job market.
This course helps you move beyond templates and generic advice. You will learn how to create a CV based on self-awareness, career goals, and how recruiters actually think. Using practical exercises, psychology, and hiring insights, you will understand not only what works, but why.
You will identify your strengths, values, and direction, then build a CV that fits your industry and ambitions. You will learn to optimise for recruiters, specific roles, and ATS systems.
The course also covers common challenges like career gaps, limited experience, career changes, or unconventional paths, showing you how to turn them into strengths.
If you want a CV that clearly communicates your value and gets noticed fast, this course gives you the tools to build it with confidence.
Wouter Lenting
Founder Letswork
CV course curriculum
1. Identify your strengths and values
Before choosing a career or writing a CV, there’s one question that matters most: who are you, really?
In this article, you’ll uncover your strengths, values, and personality through practical exercises that help you move beyond guesswork and build a career that genuinely fits you.
2. What career is right for me?
Not sure what career truly fits you? It’s about understanding how you work, what drives you, and what energises or drains you.
In this article, you’ll connect your strengths, values, and work style to a clear career direction so you can stop guessing and start choosing with confidence.
3. What recruiters look for in a CV
Recruiters don’t read your CV, they scan it in seconds. If it doesn’t immediately show value, it’s gone.
In this article, you’ll learn how recruiters actually think, how the 7-second scan works, and how to turn your CV into a sharp, strategic pitch that gets noticed by both humans and ATS.
4. Choose the right CV format
Your CV isn’t just about what you say. It’s how you structure it. If the format doesn’t work, recruiters won’t even read your content.
In this article, you’ll explore the main CV formats and learn how to choose the one that best presents your experience, strengths, and career story.
5. Your CV as a personal brand
Your CV isn’t just a list of jobs. It’s your personal brand on paper.
In this article, you’ll learn how to turn your experience into a clear, consistent story that helps recruiters instantly understand who you are, what you offer, and why you stand out.
6. Tailor your CV to the job
Most CVs get ignored not because of lack of experience, but because they’re not tailored to the job.
Learn how to tailor your CV to the role, sector, and company so recruiters instantly see you as the right fit.
7. How to fix your imperfect CV
Most CVs aren’t rejected because of gaps, career switches, or limited experience. They’re overlooked because the story isn’t clear.
In this article, you’ll learn how to turn an imperfect CV into a compelling narrative by reframing your experience, highlighting transferable skills, and aligning your story with what recruiters are actually looking for.
With a background in journalism and HR, I turn research into practical knowledge. This course is accessible for beginners and valuable for experienced professionals. Letswork's mission strongly aligns with my values, and I created this course with great pleasure.
Marcella Das
About the author
Marcella Das studied journalism and went on to complete a master’s in Human Resource Management. Not an obvious combination perhaps, but it explains exactly why she is so good at what she does: she understands how to tell a story and how employers make their hiring decisions.
She has lived in the Netherlands, Australia, the United States, Denmark and Morocco. Each place gave her a new perspective on how people present themselves and what employers are actually looking for in a candidate.
Today she works as a children’s coach and writer/journalist. She helps young people discover their strengths and put them into words, in conversation and on paper. That mix of coaching, journalism and HR knowledge is what gives this course its edge: writing a strong CV starts with knowing who you are.
Marcella turns research and science into knowledge you can use straight away. This CV writing course is grounded in insights from psychology and HR literature, but written for people who just want to get further in their careers.
Marcella Das
Author of the CV writing course
