For Freshers
Make a resume for freshers, free — projects instead of experience.
Your first resume is hard for one reason: the page asks for work history you do not have yet. The fix is not padding. It is proving capability through projects, internships, and coursework, written in the shape recruiters and applicant tracking systems already know how to read. DraftlyCV drafts those bullets for you and checks the result against the job you actually want.
- • Free to build, check, and download — no experience and no payment needed.
- • AI turns 'worked on a college project' into a verb-first, quantified bullet.
- • Single-column templates that campus portals and company ATS parse cleanly.
- • Free ATS check against any job description before you apply.
- • One-page PDF export with embedded fonts, ready for placements or email.
What goes on a fresher resume, in order
Header: name, the one role title you are targeting, city, one phone number, one professional email, and a LinkedIn or GitHub link.
Objective: two lines. Degree, target role, and one thing you can already do. Nothing generic.
Education: degree, institution, graduation year, and CGPA or percentage if it is above 7.5 or 75%. Schooling gets one line each.
Projects: two or three, and this is the section that carries the resume. One line on what it does, one or two bullets on your contribution and the tools, and a link if it is live or on GitHub.
Internships and training: same bullet style as experience — verb first, tools named, result quantified.
Skills: grouped as languages, frameworks, tools, and databases. Only what you can defend in an interview.
Certifications and achievements: relevant ones only, with the issuing body and year.
How to write bullets when you have no job to describe
Use the same three-part shape a professional uses: action, method, result. 'Built an attendance tracker in Flask and SQLite, used by 200 classmates across two semesters' does all three in one line.
Numbers exist even in academic work — users, records processed, accuracy, time saved, marks awarded, team size, weeks shipped. Pick the honest one and name it.
Write what you did, not what the group did. If you owned the API, say so, and let a teammate claim the frontend.
Drop everything you cannot be questioned on. A skills strip with twelve languages and a resume with no bullet mentioning nine of them reads as padding to any interviewer.
Why fresher resumes get filtered before a human reads them
Two-column templates with sidebars. They look designed and arrive at the recruiter as scrambled text.
Missing keywords. Most postings list the exact stack they want. If those words never appear in your projects or skills, the match score sinks whether or not you can do the work.
Outdated blocks: declarations, marital status, father's name, date and signature. They cost you the space your projects need.
One resume sent everywhere. Run each posting through the free ATS check and adjust the skills and project wording for that role — it takes two minutes and moves the score more than a rewrite does.
Frequently asked questions
Lead with education, then two or three projects written the same way a working professional writes experience: what you built, the tools you used, and the outcome. Internships, training, and volunteering fill the rest. One page is enough.
Contact details, a two-line objective, education with CGPA if it is strong, projects, internships or training, skills grouped by type, and certifications. Skip photos, declarations, hobbies, and signature blocks.
Yes. You can build a full resume, run a free ATS check against a job description, and export a PDF on the free plan. Pro adds unlimited AI rewrites, premium templates, and unlimited downloads.
The templates are single-column, text-based, and free of tables or sidebars, which is what the applicant tracking systems behind most campus portals and company careers pages parse cleanly.
One page. Recruiters spend well under a minute on a fresher resume, and a second page almost always pushes your strongest project below the fold.
A two-line objective naming your degree, target role, and one concrete strength. Generic lines like 'seeking a challenging position in a reputed organisation' waste the most valuable space on the page.