Skills-based CV template

Use this layout when your best examples come from volunteering, projects or several different jobs rather than one line of work.

Skill headings come first, so an employer reads what you can do before job titles that do not match the role; a short dated list of where you did it follows.

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Skills-based CV template: fictional example in the Professional design, page 1. Full text is available below.

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Daniel Okoro

Community Organiser

Leeds · 07700 900102 · [email protected]

Profile

Community organiser with practical experience bringing residents, volunteers and local services together. Skilled in planning accessible events, recruiting and supporting volunteers, and turning feedback into clear actions. Looking for a community engagement officer role with a housing association or local council.

Relevant skills

Community engagement

Built relationships with tenant groups, schools and food projects while volunteering with Eastbank Neighbours.

Ran doorstep and telephone outreach that brought 63 residents into a winter energy-advice programme.

Event and project coordination

Planned six low-cost community workshops, covering venues, risk checks, speakers, publicity and volunteer rotas.

Kept delivery within a £1,200 grant and gathered feedback from 118 attendees.

Communication

Write plain-English social posts, flyers, volunteer briefings and short funder updates.

Facilitate small meetings so quieter participants have time to contribute.

Administration and digital skills

Maintain consent records and attendance data using Excel and Google Workspace.

Write up action lists after meetings, check that each person has done their task, and handle personal information carefully.

Experience

Volunteer Project Lead, Eastbank Neighbours, Leeds January 2024–present

Part-time Front of House Assistant, Lantern Arts Centre, Leeds August 2022–present

Community Research Project, North Leeds Adult College February–May 2023

Education and training

Level 3 Award in Community Development, North Leeds Adult College 2023

Emergency First Aid at Work 2024

A levels: Sociology, English Language and Media Studies 2021

Additional information

Available for occasional evening and weekend events.

Fictional example for a community organiser. Every person and employer in it is invented; replace every detail with your own. Select the page to zoom in.

Before you use it

Use a chronological CV instead if recent job titles already make your suitability obvious.

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Inside this example

Profile: 41 words here
Relevant skills: 116 words here
Experience: 28 words here
Education and training: 26 words here
Additional information: 7 words here

How to use this template

Use the advert's skills as headings

Pick three or four skills the advert asks for and make each one a heading, rather than listing every skill you have.

Prove every strength

Under each heading, give a short example showing what you did, who benefited and what changed.

Keep a date summary

A compact experience section helps the reader understand where and when you built the skills.

Avoid repetition

If an achievement appears under a skill, do not repeat the same wording in the experience summary.

If the employer asks for a particular file type, a page limit or an application form, do what they ask, even where this page suggests otherwise. CV format and file types explains the choices.

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