Is Felix Ottoway a real student

No. He is invented for this page, and so are The Ravelston Arms, Braidburn Environmental and Kelphaven University. The figures show a shape and describe nobody.

Does a bar job belong on a graduate résumé

Yes, written as work. Six staff supervised, a 90-cover bar, stock losses down 19%. Those are supervision, scale and an improvement, and they read the same way a graduate scheme reads any other job.

Is a dissertation a project

It is the largest piece of independent work most graduates have, and the example treats it as one: three lines under a dated heading, covering the method, the scale and the qualitative half. The builder keeps a projects section for exactly this, and the treasurership sits beside it with two.

What did the checker score it

96 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with evidence depth 4 points short, readable volume 3 points short and achievement quality 2 points short. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% for parseability + 100 × 30% for completeness + 91 × 40% for content, on 428 readable words. The writing check beside it scored 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied to the ten achievement lines it reads.

Should I put my expected grade on it

If it is already predicted and you would say it out loud in an interview, it is useful information early. The example carries it in the education line and nowhere else.

Which design is this rendered in

Minimal, one of the eight layouts in the ATS family and one of the 24 ATS-safe designs out of 37. The eight were chosen from a measurement taken on 2026-09-14: each exports a PDF whose text layer scores exactly what the pasted text scores, on both test documents, in one column, with the reading order kept and no graphics. A page with little on it is the one place a quiet layout clearly helps.

Example · Early career

A free student résumé example, with projects doing the work

One complete student résumé, written out in full. The person is invented. The reading and the score come from the product itself.

ConxfolioPublished 2026-09-13 · updated 2026-09-25

— the bar job counts. write it like work.

The student example résumé drawn as a complete page in the Minimal design: name, summary, two dated roles with five lines under each, a dated projects section, education, nine skills and two languages — The example below, drawn by the builder's own renderer in the Minimal design. The picture was taken by pressing this page's own Use this example door and photographing what the editor rendered.

The hard part of a first résumé is believing there is anything to put on it. This example is written out in full so you can see how much a student actually has, and then run through the tools here so you can see what the software reads. The candidate is invented.

The example, in full

An invented person. Not a real document, and not yours.

Felix Ottoway
Final-year Geography student
Edinburgh, United Kingdom · [email protected] · +44 131 496 0175

Summary
Final-year geography student looking for a graduate role in environmental consultancy, with field work, GIS and 2 years behind a bar that paid for both. Collected 240 soil samples on a moorland placement.

Experience

Bar Supervisor · The Ravelston Arms, Edinburgh · 2023 to present

Supervised 6 staff across 4 shifts a week in a 90-cover bar and ran the close on most of them.
Cut stock losses by 19% after rewriting the cellar count and checking every delivery against the supplier's own note on arrival.
Trained 8 new staff on the till and the licensing rules and signed each of them off within 3 weeks.
Served 300 covers on a Saturday night with 4 staff and kept the average wait for food under 20 minutes.
Ordered stock each week for a bar of 90 covers and held the gross margin within 2% of the target the owner set.

Field Assistant, summer placement · Braidburn Environmental, Perth · 2024 to 2024

Collected 240 soil samples across 12 sites for a moorland restoration survey and logged each one against its grid reference.
Converted 3 years of river gauge readings into a single dataset of 11 000 rows and checked 5% of them by hand.
Mapped 12 survey sites in QGIS and produced 8 finished maps that the consultancy sent straight into its client report.
Walked 60 kilometres of river bank over 8 weeks and recorded habitat condition against the agreed survey form every day.
Presented the placement findings to 9 colleagues at the end of the summer and answered their questions without a supervisor.

Projects

Dissertation, urban heat in Edinburgh social housing, 2025 to 2026

Mapped surface temperature across 38 housing blocks using 4 years of satellite imagery and 200 ground observations taken by hand.
Interviewed 22 residents in their own homes and coded the transcripts into 6 themes with a second reader checking a tenth of them.
Wrote a 12 000 word dissertation with 40 cited sources and submitted it a full 2 weeks before the department deadline.

Student Geographical Society, treasurer, 2023 to 2025

Managed an annual budget of 4 800 pounds for 180 members and closed both years without a single overspend recorded.
Organised 9 field trips over 2 years for up to 40 members each and collected every payment before the coach departed.

Education
BSc (Hons) Geography, expected 2:1 · Kelphaven University, Edinburgh · 2022 to 2026

Skills
QGIS, spatial analysis, R, field sampling, survey design, report writing, Excel, interviewing, data cleaning

Languages
English · native · Spanish · A2

Three sources of evidence, not one

A student page has a part-time job, a placement and coursework, and most first drafts use only the third. The example uses all three and gives each a different job to do. The bar work shows supervision and reliability across five lines. The summer placement shows the subject applied in a workplace across five more. The dissertation shows independent method at a scale nobody else set, in three lines under a dated heading.

Together those are ten achievement lines under two dated roles and five more under two dated projects, which is enough for a page that reads as a working document rather than an apology. This example is the one exception in the family: every other résumé here carries three roles with five lines each, and a student page earns its length from projects instead. The order matters as well: the placement sits in experience because it was paid work in the field, while the society treasurership sits in projects because its value is the budget and the organising.

Write the bar job like work

"Worked in a busy bar" is the line that sinks a graduate résumé, and it is the same shift as "supervised 6 staff across 4 shifts a week in a 90-cover bar". Covers, shifts, staff and stock are all countable, and the evidence rule reads people and things as units, so a hospitality line scores exactly like an office one.

The stock-loss line is the one to copy hardest. Cutting losses by 19% after rewriting the cellar count is a change a nineteen-year-old made to a business, and it is the kind of thing candidates leave out because it happened in a cellar.

Skills for a student résumé, grouped

Felix's skills group into analysis, fieldwork and general. Analysis: QGIS, spatial analysis, R, Excel, data cleaning. Fieldwork and research: field sampling, survey design, interviewing. Writing: report writing. A graduate recruiter reads the analysis group as the part of the degree that transfers to work.

Students on other courses should name groups after the skills their course actually teaches. Set this up under Skills in the free résumé builder; one list works too.

From first student job to graduate application

A first-year student's résumé leans on education and one part-time job. By the final year, Felix has three sources of evidence: study, a placement and a job with responsibility.

For graduate applications, put the dissertation and the placement near the top, and write the bar job like work, with supervision and figures. The no-experience guide and the coursework guide cover the rest.

How it reads and scores

The ATS checker scored it 96 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with evidence depth 4 points short, readable volume 3 points short and achievement quality 2 points short. The writing check scored it 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied here, and the five it did not award are one check: bullet tense. The same check runs on every example; the method is described here.

The Conxfolio import review after the door opened, showing Felix Ottoway's example read into fields beside the rendered page, with the line saying it is an example — Felix Ottoway's student résumé read into fields, each field beside the line it came from.

The same import review on a 390 pixel phone screen, with the example notice above the accept button — Felix Ottoway's student résumé in the same review on a 390 px phone.

What to change for your own

Put your own numbers on the work you have already done. Count the shifts, the covers, the customers, the samples, the members of the society. If you have had no job at all, the projects section carries the page on its own, and the article on the empty résumé takes that case further.

Drop the summary only if it would repeat the education line. Keep it to two sentences that name what you are looking for. The design gallery holds 37 layouts, and the software engineer example, the nurse example and the project manager example show the same structure once a career has started.

Write yours beside it

Opens the builder with Felix's example loaded, saved as its own entry in the Minimal design. Replace every line with your own. Free, no account.

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Questions

Is Felix Ottoway a real student: No. He is invented for this page, and so are The Ravelston Arms, Braidburn Environmental and Kelphaven University. The figures show a shape and describe nobody.
Does a bar job belong on a graduate résumé: Yes, written as work. Six staff supervised, a 90-cover bar, stock losses down 19%. Those are supervision, scale and an improvement, and they read the same way a graduate scheme reads any other job.
Is a dissertation a project: It is the largest piece of independent work most graduates have, and the example treats it as one: three lines under a dated heading, covering the method, the scale and the qualitative half. The builder keeps a projects section for exactly this, and the treasurership sits beside it with two.
What did the checker score it: 96 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with evidence depth 4 points short, readable volume 3 points short and achievement quality 2 points short. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% for parseability + 100 × 30% for completeness + 91 × 40% for content, on 428 readable words. The writing check beside it scored 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied to the ten achievement lines it reads.
Should I put my expected grade on it: If it is already predicted and you would say it out loud in an interview, it is useful information early. The example carries it in the education line and nowhere else.
Which design is this rendered in: Minimal, one of the eight layouts in the ATS family and one of the 24 ATS-safe designs out of 37. The eight were chosen from a measurement taken on 2026-09-14: each exports a PDF whose text layer scores exactly what the pasted text scores, on both test documents, in one column, with the reading order kept and no graphics. A page with little on it is the one place a quiet layout clearly helps.

Conxfolio is a free set of four career tools: a résumé builder with 37 rendered layouts, an ATS résumé checker that prints its own arithmetic, a cover letter builder that traces every proof paragraph back to the line it came from, and a portfolio builder with 22 authored designs. There is no account to create, nothing is held back for a paid plan, and no language model is used anywhere in the product, so the readers, the score and the letter are deterministic code you can check.