How to Write Application : The formulated CV

Many foundations require in addition to the CV also formulated a resume. Because unlike a job application numerous additional application materials are required for scholarship applications often.

» Write the formulated CV

The formulated or detailed CV will be written as a continuous text. Here it is called for in either typed or handwritten form. Foundations and other promotional institutions usually require this for two reasons. For one, you want to get to know you better, you want others to see how well you can write structured texts.

» What should I write?

In principle, that you should put the same facts as formulated in the CV. The structure should be chronological start of your childhood and be structured with the help of logical paragraphs.

The formulated resume allows you to call the reasons for your decisions. Instead of a boring series of facts, you can explain in this essay, for example, why you decided you for your study or why you made a social year. Also, your social engagement you can explain better here and describe it as a CV. The examiner can here get a better idea of ​​your personality.

This CV allows you also to explain gaps or other less favorable episodes in your resume. You need not be ashamed of yourself for a longer period of study. Because if you can justify it, for example by a strong social commitment, it appears clearly understandable to the reader. Also the change of the field of study for you to justify here. The formulated CV enables you to explain what you have learned from the decision.

In addition, you should also explain what you have been abroad, internships or a gap year. So you have certainly won as part of a stay abroad of intercultural competence.

Your hobbies should also dedicated a section in the resume. Because they reveal a lot about your person. Basically, the clearer the reason, the better the examiner can make a picture of your person.

Finally, part of each formulated CV should be a description of your idea and run your future career goals for the near to medium future. Because usually makes determination always a very good impression on auditors.

» What should I do with the form?

Although the detailed CV requires a longer text than the tabular, also here: less is more. For the time the auditor for the individual scholarship application is limited. Nevertheless, the text should not be too tight. Because in order to explain a CV of 1-2 pages and to justify decisions in your life, it requires 2-4 pages already.

As for the other components of your application you should CV formulated to print on high quality paper and examine it carefully for spelling, punctuation and typographical errors. For whoever submits his application with errors, gives the same impression invested little effort for its scholarship application and therefore have no very great interest to actually receive the scholarship.

You should like in the other application documents the fonts Times New Roman or Arial in black and use a font size of 10 to 12 With a line spacing of 1.5, the text is very legible.

In addition, You should also read through again to check whether it has a clear structure and make sense of the text content of the paragraphs. To make the text more readable, you can also use the headings in the resume. The resume should be written basically formulated in the first person ("I").

» What should I avoid?

Although the formulated resume revolves around your person, you should not apply too thick. Because that self praise is well known. However you should not put your light under a bushel. Be confident, stand by your strengths and rename it clearly without self-indulgent and pathetic act.

You should also avoid despite the formulated CV to be too detailed. Otherwise you can quickly get the impression that you you can not concentrate on the essentials. Avoid, therefore, too much to go into detail.

How to Write Application : The report

Most foundations require their applicants to at least one report. This may be, for example, from a professor, the dissertation supervisor or teacher, depending on requirements. What makes a good report, you can find out in this article.

A good advice for the scholarship application
Report can either expert opinion or personal opinion to be. A technical assessment should in particular take on the professional qualifications of the applying for a scholarship student reference. The personality survey should be from a person who knows the applicant well and took care of him in a life. This can be a teacher but also the leader of a student ministries.

» The content depends on what the goal of the funding institution

Although the expert opinion shall in particular refer to the technical qualifications of the applicant, this does not mean that it should only act it. Should a foundation that is especially important to us that candidates can demonstrate their commitment außercurriculares, then a border gutach professor who has your commitment to a student division can observe also refer to it.
In principle, a report should follow a certain structure. This means that the introduction Gutach Tende first mentioned, where, how long and how well he knows you. This may be for example one of his lectures.

Then he should describe your professional qualifications as required. Here he can take notes and highlight related content valuable contributions from you during his lectures. Perhaps this reviewer has ever cared for a work by you and can write something about the content of this work.

In the following section the appraiser should call your technical properties. He can, for example, you might be extremely structured (s) or student students have perceived and highlight your analytical skills.

Also should not be missing in any report a section on your personality. Perhaps the appraiser can see how well you are integrating you into a group and if you're especially popular with fellow students.

Should a foundation to another feature in the CV of applicants pay particular attention as social, political or church involvement, it should be addressed in a separate paragraph an assessment of your property to this person.
In a report may not be missing, finally, the final explicit recommendation of the evaluators for a scholarship. In it, he must make it clear that he supports it explicitly states that you will receive a scholarship.

» What is your role in the expert reports

It is advisable to ask for different opinions from different appraisers, you will be granted if in the opinion of insight. Then you can select. Often this is not possible, since many foundations require that the report be sent directly to them in a sealed envelope so that the candidate has no insight into the opinion.

Many professors and teachers are willing to create a report for their students. It is best to ask those in which you have achieved the best ratings. Trust you calm because there is not much to lose here.

However, you should also assist evaluators in his work, for example by You deliver the content to a large extent. Moreover, you can also send as your testimonials and your CV and very briefly provide substantive evidence. Best, however, ask you first carefully, wants the kind of support the Gutach Tende.

How to Write Application : The CV

Most foundations expect their applicants to a resume. If not further specified here is usually meant as a CV. In this article you will learn everything you need to know to create a very good resume.

» To compose good resume is not particularly difficult. It is important to be accurate and comply with some basic principles. We have compiled for you the most important points on this topic.

» The mold

A CV should be no longer than two pages, because each application will be mostly dedicated to the pre-selection only a few minutes. The most important thing must therefore stand out when flying.

To achieve this, it is important that the resume is well structured and well formatted. In principle, applicants should avoid using a color other than black. A typeface Times New Roman or Arial should be used. Other fonts can quickly contribute to a dubious impression.

» The photo

An important contribution to the first impression also provides the application photo. It should be placed at the top right corner of the first page of your CV in most cases. Should the resume be accompanied by a cover sheet, place it should find the photo. Important here is that the photo is approximately the size of your photo. Too small photo would be difficult to recognize for the viewer, too big is too strong appearances in the foreground and draws heavily on the actual qualifications from.

In the photo Applicants should have a friendly, yet confident impression. Private recordings should generally not be used. Who wants to have a professional resume, a photo from a professional photo studio should use.

The following points for a professional photo application you should consider:

1- Clothing: You want to convey a serious impression. Moreover, you should wear business attire in the photo, that is, a suit jacket and a shirt or a blouse. Men should wear a tie to. Discreet, matching jacket for jewelry can be graceful in women quite. However, too much jewelry looks dubious.

2- Format: The photo should be short range from above the head to below the collarbone. Other formats are not common in applications.

3- Facial expression is important is a direct look into the camera and therefore the viewer. This gives a confident and open-minded impression. A smile is sympathetic and interested.

» The structure

Basically you should avoid gaps in your CV. If you can still not avoid weaknesses such as gaps, poor grades and a long period of study in the life, you should be able to explain well. Because this will otherwise quickly interpreted as a lack of purpose and unreliability.

The list of stations in reverse chronological CV is today, ie the last stations are listed first. This has the simple reason that more recent information about yourself in general are much more relevant than events that are long back. It should be listed on the left and right of the period the station.

You should also make sure to align your CV to the respective foundation or other institution at which you are applying. You can do that, for example, by starring them you more stations that are for a specific funding institution of particular relevance. You can also perform precise sub-points to explain this station. In any case, you should formulate a foundation for each new resume and simply send in any case, the application documents copied to several!

The above mentioned structure has been our experience so far proved to be very good and also corresponds to what foundations are used when reading CVs:

1- information about themselves: Here you should send your address, telephone number, email address and your birth name. Possible, but not mandatory information is the marital status, nationality, religion, number of siblings, and the occupations of the parents.

2- Training: Here you should see the university where you study and mention the school at which you have acquired your degree. If you have already completed a study abroad, you should also place it here. Likewise, a student exchange. Brief explanations of the various stations are helpful. So you can, for example, your main subjects in the university or call notes. We recommend that only explicitly call notes here if they are at least good. 

3- Internships/Work Experience: This category includes your work experience, vocational training (s), internships and student jobs. Again, you should attach a brief explanation of your activities.

4- Languages: This category is used to call your language skills and your knowledge in the language. As a rule, used to measure the level of knowledge, the terms "basic knowledge," flowing "," fluent in written and used "and" mother tongue ". An excessive exaggeration of language may, for all that will lose out when they are placed in an interview after the preselection written to the test.

5- computer skills: Here you should first note your level of knowledge in the standard Office applications. Additional knowledge in other programs should also be taken into account here.

6- extra-curricular activities and awards: It has an advantageous if you have something to offer. If you even can show numerous extracurricular activities and awards, a splitting this category offers. Extracurricular activities include any involvement in higher education or in the charitable or political environment. Training to a trainer or teacher can also be mentioned here. Awards include grants and awards. Even as prices at Skiwettläufen can be mentioned here, for even this type of award is a testament to determination of auditors.

7- Hobbies: At this point you should highlight as interesting hobbies. Hobbies allow direct positive conclusions about your person, are particularly desirable. Because of the hobbies can include, for example on special ambition, intellectual curiosity or a team. In addition, you should go to a few, but focus interesting hobbies, rather than simply enumerate a long list of sometimes mundane activities.

How to Write Application : The Cover Letter

Each application requires a cover letter, even if it is not explicitly required by the Foundation. To write a professional cover letter, however, is not trivial. We tell you what examiners look for.
What letter in the letter for the scholarship application?
» THE letter is the crucial start of the application. Here, the auditor already formed an impression of you and it is important to create a positive impression possible.
» The form: Not more than one page
The first ironclad rule for a cover letter is that it must gain attention and therefore has to be short and concise and should not exceed one page. For the selection committees of foundations and funding agencies have usually very little time for the individual application. The first impression is therefore formed in the first minutes. A scarce but informative cover letter grabs the attention of a few features, and keeps them in memory. It can leave the first positive impression. A long letter to the blurring accents and gives the impression that the candidate is not able to concentrate on the essentials.
The cover letter or letter of motivation should be designed as a letter to the sender, addressee, Location, date, subject line and signature. The handwritten signature You should not forget to distinguish your application from a bulk mailing. The fonts Times New Roman and Arial font size 12 left a serious impression in most cases. Colorful graphics, photos, creases and stains on the paper give a sloppy impression. Print on high quality white paper adds to the cost, but also the chance of success because it keeps your application for professional, serious and reputable.
The information about the sender and addressees should include all relevant contact information, ie name, address, telephone, fax and mobile number if applicable and email address, the addressee's name of the sponsoring institution.
For the conclusion of the letter, we recommend "Sincerely" and subsequent signature. Encouraging alternatives such as "Sincerely" or "Regards" are felt by all examiners as equally tasty, possibly by some as pandering. It is a formal letter and not a letter to an old friend.
» The Building: A cover letter must be clearly structured
The cover letter should always be with the words "Dear Sir (s) Mr/Mrs Smith" begin. It is important to address as the addressee directly. Thus, the application is the same much more personal. The general form "Ladies and Gentlemen" You should largely abandon and only make use of or when the contacts are not known. You should also be careful not to forget the name and to write correctly the title of the contact person. Error violate vain auditors, and Schludrigkeiten in the first set equal to leave a bad first impression. When multiple contacts you should list them all, with the highest ranking should be called first.
A good cover letter is divided into four paragraphs. In the first paragraph you name your concerns, so applying for a specific scholarship, and then You ask yourself briefly. Here you should mention your field of study and the institution where you study, and the one or the other feature of your resume, this could be for the Foundation and the advertised exact scholarship of particular relevance.
In the second paragraph you should explain why you just goes particularly well with this foundation. So if you you are applying, for example, at a Foundation for a scholarship, the great emphasis on community involvement, then you can explain how did you have committed here.
The third paragraph is used to explain why you are applying you just for this scholarship and not for another. Here you can explain the role that values ​​play in your life, the Foundation if the Foundation sets of values ​​specific to a particular value, for example. In addition, many foundations also offer moral support. An explanation of why these moral support for you is of great interest, can provide the motivation letter a personal touch.
The last paragraph is looking forward to the comment that you're always at your disposal for further information and I, when the application has aroused interest.