Tailor Your CV to an Internship or Apprenticeship Posting

Tailoring your CV to a posting for an internship or apprenticeship means aligning your CV targeted per posting with the skills and vocabulary of the ad, without adding fake internships or degrees. With AltCV, you complete your profile once, paste the posting, and get a version ready to export: you no longer retype everything in a Word template for every application.

Step 1: read the posting like a recruiter

Focus first on:

• the exact job title;
• required skills (languages, tools, methods);
• the level expected (third year, master's year one, first professional experience);
• recurring tasks (support, dev, data, marketing, etc.).

Note keywords to reuse in your student CV only if you actually know them. On AltCV, you can paste the ad text or its link: the tool uses that analysis to prioritize your real content.

Step 2: match projects and experience

For an apprenticeship application, a course project or hackathon can weigh as much as a small job if you describe:

• the context (school, association, internal client);
• the tools (React, Python, Figma, etc.);
• an outcome (deliverable, demo, metric).

Put the elements closest to the posting first; keep the rest shorter. With AltCV, this reordering is automatic from your profile: you avoid spending an hour cutting and pasting bullet points for every company.

Step 3: rephrase, do not invent

Personalizing your CV does not mean lying. Rephrase bullet points, use terms from the ad, tighten vague passages. If a skill is missing, mention it in your cover letter or at interview—not on the CV as if you already have it.

AltCV does not encourage cheating: everything comes from what you entered (experience, projects, skills). You gain clarity and alignment, not fiction.

Step 4: export and tracking

Once the version is ready, export a readable PDF and log the application (company, status, posting link). You avoid sending the wrong version to the wrong company.

With AltCV, PDF export and application tracking are in the same flow: you no longer forget which version you sent, and you can follow up at the right time.

In summary

• Analyze the posting → list of keywords and priorities.
• Reorder projects / experience you actually have (or let AltCV do it).
• Generate a targeted internship or apprenticeship CV, then track the application.

Try the AltCV generator after completing your profile.