Applying for internship

Question

I'm thinking about applying for internship at Eesti Energia (Located in Europe, at Tallinn). I am eligible, but before contacting them, I need to learn how to compile an informative and complete CV and cover letter.

I was thinking, that most of people here have applied for a internship or a job in course of their life, and therefor being qualified of answering or guiding how to compile them.

Course of life

Image of what my CV looks like atm:

Rough sketch of cover letter contents

I started my academic career as Computer and Systems Engineer, but as I excelled in programming classes, I changed my major to Software Engineer and taken my specialty in web applications and logic.

As part of my hobbies, for a long time I attended Nõmme club of draughts and took part in quite a few draughts championships. As part of schools russian checker team, where I was the captain, our 4-member team archived places: 1, 1, 4, 2 in the (pre-collage) schools championship in Tallinn region. In my age group, I was among top 3 best in various checkers and draughts Nation wide championships. This also enabled me to compete in Europe wide championships, where among other nation wide champions I was mediocre. But, I still enjoyed outperforming about half of them each time.

Reasons why I want to apply there, are:

• I need to do at least 4-6 week traineeship and it's in the right field
• I have the requirements and tasks seem easy enough
• Company is well known and has fairly good reputation
• Family and friend think, that it would be acceptable place to work
• Myriad of options to do final thesis about open up
• Work place is located in the same city I live atm.

Question

I have some idea how Curriculum Vitæ should look like, but I'm not sure how to write informative one ( haven't seen any well made software engineer student resumes ). And mostly what should I put in cover letter

Answer 1

Some thoughts on your question:

You seem to have many things to write on your CV and what I see here should not be away from the final one :-). Try to look at careers of stack exchange and try to fill their CV form, it will help you structure your CV. Same applied for linked in.

Also the company is European therefore while you sample on the net look for European-like CVs.

If you are the CV and the company is the other part, those things "meet" and mix in the cover letter, where you should state why you should work on that position in that company (very general answer, I know). Since it is a "big" company, it should have a HR department therefore the cover letter will dictate if they will read the CV or their first impression. Try to say why you should work there, something that will differentiate you from the "I did 1000 applications and I also applied to you" approach.

You should not worry that much for your luck of on-job experience if it has to do with a placement

Hoped I helped. Good luck.

Answer 2

How to Design a One Page Resume

http://www.scribd.com/doc/4633116/A-Very-Cool-One-Page-Resume

The Death of the One-Page Resume? - US News and World Report

http://money.usnews.com/money/careers/articles/2011/03/08/the-death-of-the-one-page-resume