Disabled for the time being. Student CV Maker's sharing features (publishing a CV, private links, confirmations, references and the employer features) are disabled for now, and will come back later. You can still write your CV and download it. What this page says about sharing is how it will work when it is back.
Confirm your students' qualifications.
Free for school, college and university careers teams. Your students write CVs employers can check, and you confirm their qualifications from your records. For students under 18, you also approve what they share.
Apply
You need a Freddie Sparrow Limited business account, opened with your work email. A personal account, including one made with LinkedIn, is for your own CV and can't apply. You also need a school, college or university email address, ending .sch.uk or .ac.uk, and the school, college or university must be in the UK. Sign in with your email and apply. Someone at Freddie Sparrow Limited looks at your institution's details and your email address before we approve you.
Share your code, or accept students who ask
Students aged 16 and 17 join Student CV Maker through a careers team, and there are two ways in. (A student whose school or college isn't on Student CV Maker, and who hasn't been asked of any team, can have a parent or guardian approve instead. If you decline a student, a parent or guardian can't approve for them instead. If you accept one, you take over from any parent or guardian.) They can enter your code. Or they can enter their school or college email, ending .sch.uk or .ac.uk, at your domain: we email that address a one-time code to check it, and they then appear on your page under "Students waiting to join". You choose Accept or Decline. Nothing links a student to your team until you accept them, and until you do they can write their CV but can't share anything. You see the name on their CV and the school domain, not their email. Students aged 18 and over can join your team with the code too, but they don't need one to use Student CV Maker. Before they join, we tell them what you can see (below). Joining is their choice, and they can leave at any time. When they leave, you stop seeing anything.
Confirm and support
See who has started a CV, who has published one, how many facts are confirmed and how many references they have. Confirm the qualifications you can check in your own records. When you confirm one, employers see your name, your role and institution, and your email domain. A qualification confirmation never lapses, and it always shows the date you gave it.
What you can and can't see
Names, progress and qualifications
You see each student's name, when they joined, their progress, and the qualifications they have listed: type, subject, school, dates and grades. You see them whether or not the student has published their CV. This is so you can confirm them from your records.
Not the rest of their CV
You don't see their jobs, personal statement, cover letters, references, contact details or writing report, unless the student sends you a private link like anyone else.
Free
There's no charge for careers teams. There's none for your students during their free period, which lasts until the end of the year they turn 25. Students under 18 can't buy anything.
Students under 18
You approve what goes out
Students aged 16 and 17 who are in your team write and edit their own CV freely. Anything that would go out from their account waits for you first: a private link, turning on their public link, a request for a confirmation or a reference, and a writing sample. You approve or decline, with a note if you like. Nothing goes until you say yes.
You see the whole request
You see the full request, including the recipient's email address, or the confirmer's name, role and email. We email you when one arrives. A request you don't answer in 14 days lapses, and the student can ask again.
Protected by default
A student's public link starts off. When you approve it, it shows their initials only and hides their town, unless they unticked those in the request, and you can see what they chose. Employers can't send them contact requests. If a student leaves your team, what is waiting is called off and nothing new can be shared.
In the year a student turns 18, they still count as under 18 until they confirm their date of birth again on their own device. From then on, or from the year they turn 19 if they never do, they don't need your approval. We only keep the year of birth, never the date.
Common questions
Is Student CV Maker free for schools and colleges?
Yes. There is no charge for careers teams at UK schools, colleges and universities, and none for their students during their free period, which lasts until the end of the year they turn 25. Students under 18 can’t buy anything.
How do students join our team?
Students aged 16 and 17 join through a careers team. They can use your join code, or ask to join with a school or college email ending .sch.uk or .ac.uk, and you can accept students who ask. Give the code only to your own students who are 16 or over: we can’t tell a student’s age from it, and Student CV Maker is not for anyone younger.
What can we see about our students?
Each student’s name, when they joined, their progress and the qualifications they have listed. You don’t see their jobs, personal statement, cover letters, references, contact details or writing report, unless the student sends you a private link like anyone else.
What do we approve for students under 18?
Anything that would go out from a 16 or 17 year old’s account waits for you first: a private link, turning on their public link, a request for a confirmation or a reference, and a writing sample. A request you don’t answer in 14 days lapses, and the student can ask again.
How do we apply?
You need a Freddie Sparrow Limited business account opened with your work email, and a school, college or university email address ending .sch.uk or .ac.uk. The school, college or university must be in the UK.