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Confirm your age
Student CV Maker is for people aged 16 and over who live in the UK. You tell us your date of birth and your device checks that you are 16 or over. This is your own statement: we don't check it against any document. The date never leaves your device. If it shows you are under 16 you can't use Student CV Maker, and you can't try again on that account for 24 hours. We only keep your year of birth, which decides how long everything is free for you: until the end of the year you turn 25. Under 18? You join through your school or college careers team, either with their join code or with your school or college email (they then accept you), and they approve anything you share until you're 18.
You can't change your year of birth later yourself, so check it's right.
Before you start
Student CV Maker terms
Your Freddie Sparrow Limited account works across all our services, but each one has its own terms. Please read and accept these to use Student CV Maker.
Not ready to accept?
You don't have to accept to keep control of your data. You can do any of these from here.
Go private now unpublishes your CV and switches off every private link. Nothing is deleted. Download my data gives you one file of what Student CV Maker holds about you.
Deleting removes your CV and everything else you made here at once, and can't be undone. What stays is the payment record of any pass you paid for, for 7 years from the payment, because tax law requires it; any contact request that was reported, for up to 12 months, with any block that goes with it; and our log of the emails we send, which runs out on its own after 2 years. The privacy notice lists everything that stays, and for how long. Blocks on employers are deleted unless the employer was reported. A pass or lifetime access you paid for stays on your Freddie Sparrow Limited account and its days keep running. We don't refund unused days after the 14-day cancellation period. Your Freddie Sparrow Limited account stays open until you close it from your account page.
Come back when you're 16
Student CV Maker is for people aged 16 and over. We haven't stored your date of birth or your age. You still have the Freddie Sparrow Limited account you signed in with. You can delete it from your account page, or email hello@freddiesparrow.co.uk and we'll do it for you.
Disabled for the time being. Sharing, confirmations, references and the employer features are disabled for now and will come back later. You can still write your CV and download it, and nothing you have made is lost.
Choose a letter, or start a new one.
Tailor your CV for a job you're applying for. Choose a version on the left, or start a new one.
Public link
Anyone with this link can see your CV and writing report. Your phone number, email and right-to-work answer are never shown on it.
Your address starts as your initials and four random letters or numbers, not your name. You can choose another. Your careers lead sees the address before it goes live.
Both start ticked because you're under 18. You can un-tick them, and your careers lead sees what you chose before anything goes live.
Your public link is on, so these two are locked here. Turning one off needs your careers lead's OK: switch your public link off, then ask to turn it on again with the box un-ticked.
Private links
A private link is for one person. It shows your full name and town. Your phone, email and right-to-work answer (marked as self-declared) are left out unless you tick the box below. When they open it, we email them a one-time code, the same way signing in works, so the link is no use to anyone else. The code works once: it is used up as soon as it opens the link.
Your school, college or university careers team
If your careers team uses Student CV Maker, join with their code. They'll see your name, when you joined, whether you have started or published a CV, how many facts are confirmed and how many references you have. They'll also see each qualification line from your CV (the qualification, subject, school, dates and grades), because they need it to confirm your qualifications. They can't see the rest of your CV, your contact details or your writing report. You can leave at any time.
Get your facts confirmed
Ask someone who knows, from their own email. For a qualification they must use a school, college or university email address (one ending .ac.uk or .sch.uk). They type their own name and job title when they answer, and employers see those, with the part of their email after the @, and the date. Employers see whether a fact is confirmed. If the person corrects it or can't confirm it, employers see the fact as not confirmed, the same as a fact nobody was asked about, and never what the person wrote. You see their words here, and you can fix the fact or remove their answer. If you change a fact afterwards, it shows as changed until someone confirms the new wording. A job's confirmation lapses after 24 months, and you can ask again. A qualification's does not lapse. The person can withdraw theirs at any time, and we email you if they do. Employers see who confirmed it, when, and whether it was withdrawn, lapsed or changed. Think an answer is wrong or unfair? Email hello@freddiesparrow.co.uk.
References
Your referee writes the reference here. You can't change it, and you only read it if they allow you to. A reference they allow you to read can be shown on a private link you make with references switched on. One they give in confidence is not shown to anyone.
Contact requests
Employers you share your CV with, and approved employers who have your public link, can ask to contact you about a role. Only an employer we have approved can send a request, and only with your public link or a private link from you. Nobody can search for you: an employer needs your link first. A request names their company and a job title line, and they can't write to you. If you accept, you choose whether to send your email, your phone or both, and you see the exact email and number before you tick. They have already seen your CV, because they needed your link (a private link also shows your phone, email and right-to-work answer). Until you answer, they see your name as your public CV shows it.
How your data is protected
Everything you type here (your CV, cover letters, references, confirmations and who you share links with) is encrypted before it's saved, with a key that's kept separately from our database. It travels over an encrypted connection, and it's stored in Cloudflare's Western Europe region. We never sell it, show you adverts or use it to train AI.
We can still read it when we need to show it to the people you share it with. That's how sharing works.
Your public CV
These only change your public link, and both start ticked for everyone. A private link shows your full name and town, and your phone, email and right-to-work answer only if you ticked to include them when you made it. Your phone, email and right-to-work answer are never on the public link. If you declared you are an adult, un-ticking the first box needs you to confirm your date of birth first (the box below).
You're under 18, so your public link shows initials only and hides your town. You can turn either one on here, but turning one off needs your careers lead's OK. To ask, use the Share tab: switch your public link off if it is on, un-tick the box, then ask to turn it on. Your careers lead sees your choice first.
Go private now
Unpublish your CV and switch off every private link straight away. Nothing is deleted, and you can publish again or make new links whenever you like. If you are under 18, it also cancels any request for a private link or the public link that is still waiting for your careers lead.
Download your data
What Student CV Maker holds about you, in one file: your CV, letters, job versions, writing records, links and when they were opened, confirmations, references, requests, requests to your careers lead, passes and payments, LinkedIn sign-in, and anything from Document Maker. Your writing records include the passages you pasted that are still in your writing, which we keep so the report can tell what is still pasted. Security tokens and code hashes are left out, as are the hashed emails of people you asked to confirm or be a referee, and the names and emails of our team members (free access we gave you shows as given by Freddie Sparrow Limited).
Delete everything
Deletes your CV, writing records, cover letters, job versions, writing samples, Document Maker links and payment links, private links, confirmations, references, contact requests, requests to your careers lead, careers teams you joined or applied for, any employer application, age check, LinkedIn sign-in and any free access we gave you. It happens at once and can't be undone. What stays from Student CV Maker is: the payment record of any pass you paid for (what, when and how much), for 7 years from the payment, because tax law requires it; any contact request that was reported, for up to 12 months after it was answered or expired, with any block that goes with it, so that we can still look into the report; and our log of the emails we send, which runs out on its own after 2 years (it holds the address and subject, but only the part after the @ for people you asked to confirm a fact, give a reference or open a link). The privacy notice lists everything that stays, and for how long. Blocks are deleted unless the employer was reported. A pass or lifetime access you paid for stays on your Freddie Sparrow Limited account and its days keep running. We don't refund unused days after the 14-day cancellation period. Within the 14 days, email hello@freddiesparrow.co.uk to cancel. If you sign up again with the same account, what is left applies again. Deleting your data doesn't close your Freddie Sparrow Limited account: you close that from your account page.