19 Dec 2025
Since March 2024, the IBSS’s Work Placement, Employability and Career Development (WEC) Team has launched an innovative service called the “CV Clinic,” aimed at helping students prepare job application materials more efficiently and professionally. Over the past two years, the program has held 28 sessions, providing one-on-one CV reviews and job-matching guidance to 852 IBSS students. With its high participation and satisfaction rates, the CV Clinic has become a widely recognized and valued career development support initiative among students.
The CV Clinic is jointly delivered by WEC’s transferable skills training specialists, student employability officer, senior employability officer, and career counsellor, ensuring both professionalism and comprehensiveness through multi-role collaboration. Focusing on CV writing—a fundamental yet critical step in job hunting—the service offers intensive 15-minute face-to-face consultations to help students quickly articulate their strengths, gain a precise understanding of job requirements, and transform past experiences into compelling professional narratives. Yidan Liu, the project lead, explains: “A CV is not just a cold document—it’s the first chapter of your career story. In just 15 minutes, we aim to help students make their stories clearer and sharper.”
To enhance service efficiency and student engagement, the CV Clinic employs a “pre-review + consultation” model. Students are required to submit editable draft CVs in advance. Before each session, the WEC team analyzes job descriptions, identifies key strengths, flags issues, and uses AI-powered tools to decode position requirements and highlight core competencies. This enables students to structure their CV content more effectively. This approach not only improves the focus and quality of feedback during consultations but also encourages students to actively prepare in advance, fostering a dynamic and productive interaction. This semester alone, attendance across seven sessions averaged 85%, with some sessions reaching as high as 95%, reflecting strong student endorsement and engagement.
The service operates bilingually in both Chinese and English, catering to Chinese students seeking overseas opportunities who need polished English CVs, as well as international students pursuing careers in the Chinese job market—demonstrating IBSS’s inclusive and forward-looking approach to global education. Held consistently every two weeks, the CV Clinic effectively aligns with key recruitment periods, including fall and spring hiring cycles and internship application windows, ensuring students receive timely, professional support throughout their career journey.
Student feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. To date, 338 participants have submitted evaluations, giving the service an average satisfaction score of 9.93 out of 10. Ratings for professional guidance, approachability, and practicality of feedback all neared perfection. Many students reported that the sessions not only clarified the logic and narrative of their experiences and significantly improved their CVs, but also prompted them to reflect more deeply on their career paths. “The feedback was specific and actionable—each revision brought visible progress. It felt incredibly rewarding,” shared one participant.
“As long as students are willing to come, prepare, and revise—that’s the most valuable affirmation of our work,” said Yidan Liu. She emphasizes that the CV Clinic is more than just a skills workshop—it’s a process that guides students toward self-awareness and career reflection. By applying the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) method to organize experiences, highlight achievements, and align with job requirements, students gradually develop a stronger sense of their own value and how to articulate it effectively.
The ongoing success of the CV Clinic plays a vital role in building IBSS’s sustainable career support ecosystem. On one hand, every interaction provides the school with deeper insights into students’ career aspirations and potential, helping accumulate talent data to enable more precise opportunity matching and internship/job referrals in the future. On the other hand, the program’s collaborative, bilingual, and tech-integrated model showcases IBSS’s innovation and depth in career development services.
More importantly, the CV Clinic helps students move beyond short-term job preparation toward long-term career growth. It’s not just about polishing a CV—it’s about cultivating students’ ability to continuously refine their self-presentation, clarify their career goals, and articulate their professional identity, ultimately empowering them to succeed in the global job market.
The WEC Team states: “We’re not just advising on CVs—we’re helping students understand themselves, recognize their worth, and express their career futures with clarity and confidence.” Looking ahead, the team plans to further enrich the CV Clinic by expanding into related areas such as cover letter writing, mock interviews, and industry-specific career diagnostics, striving to build a comprehensive, end-to-end, and globally oriented career development platform—to accompany every student as they step confidently onto their ideal professional stage.
19 Dec 2025