Student internship CV: MEG structure and tips
How to write an internship CV: structure, a short profile line, projects, and generating it from your MEG student profile.
An internship CV is not a list of courses. It is a short document for a recruiter who decides in a few seconds whether to call you in.
On MEG, your CV is built from your student profile. This guide helps you write it for an internship search, and fill in the profile so the document is easy to read.
Block order (most recent first)
For a student profile, the useful order is Education, then Projects, then Experience, then Skills. Your degree and projects usually matter more than a short work history.
- Header: first name, last name, phone, email, city or province. If you are registered with the PNPE, the number appears under your name. A LinkedIn profile is not required.
- Profile line: one line, not a paragraph. State your level, then your specialty. Examples: Bachelor year 3 → Business computing ; Licence → Nursing.
- Education: the credential and the specialty, the school, and the year. Examples: “BTS in Civil engineering”, “Bachelor's in Business law”.
- Projects: coursework, supervised projects, mini-theses. Give a title and say what you actually did.
- Experience: internships, summer jobs, association work. Organisation, role, dates, and above all what you achieved.
- Skills, software, languages: list tools with a worded level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert). For languages, a clear level is enough (for example B1).
- Certificates and interests: only if they help the internship you want.
Internship CV or experienced hire?
| Item | Student / internship CV | CV with several years’ experience |
|---|---|---|
| Priority | Education → Projects → Experience | Experience → Skills → Education |
| Highlight | Potential, projects, specialty, willingness to learn | Quantified results, progression, expertise |
| Instead of a long history | Projects, internships, summer jobs, associations | Role progression and responsibility |
| Profile line | One line: level → specialty (e.g. Bac +2 → Accounting) | Impact and expertise |
MEG uses the student order. That is the right default for an internship application.
How to describe experience and projects
A common mistake is to paste a job description or a course outline. Recruiters want what you did.
- Start each sentence with an action verb: created, organised, drafted, welcomed, calculated, presented.
- Add a number whenever you can: duration, number of people, volume, deadline.
- Think Situation, Task, Action, Result — and keep action and result on the CV.
- Re-read the MEG posting and reuse the skills it asks for, without copying the whole text.
Short courses and certificates
Keep the title short: the organisation and the official name. In one or two sentences, say what you can do. Examples: first-aid certificate, office software course, language certificate.
Layout and file
One page is often enough. If the content is longer, MEG continues on the next page: nothing is cut off.
Choose a simple, airy layout, without skill bars or stars: they take space and say very little.
Always save a PDF from My space, then CV. Use a readable file name: first name, last name, and the internship you are applying for.
A code at the bottom of the page lets the recruiter open the online version.
On MEG, in practice
- Complete your profile: a specialty on every diploma, software with a worded level.
- Generate a CV from My space, then CV.
- Adapt the document title to the offer.
- Download the PDF and attach it to the application.