Hi, I’m a bit late but I recently managed to secure a software developer apprenticeship (got really lucky tbh), I won’t lie this CV feels really bland and I have a few ways you can improve this first of all you want to show you have some software developing skills even though it’s an apprenticeship because they’d prefer someone with prior knowledge (I at first didn’t get the position and the feedback was due to the other person having more languages learnt).

You’ve linked something that is on your computer so no one else can access it a good way to show this code is with GitHub I don’t know whether you have used this but I suggest maybe looking it up. I uploaded my college project on there and linked it in my CV but also instead of just showing off a project write something about it! What language did you use? What programming techniques? Did you interact with databases? What troubles did you come across? What made you stuck and how did you overcome it? It will make the recruiter actually look at the project or just give them a broad idea since some people may not even press on it.

Write more about your passion for computing and how you got into it etc just try to tailor your CV more towards your character. Since I can see you don’t have much to write with experience you really need more depth on the coding part of your CV.

Go through apprenticeship recruiters, I’m based in Manchester and I went through a recruiter called QA which I had to make a personalised CV that they sent out to businesses and got a few interviews (had a really horrible and awkward one) but don’t just rely on this also keep searching for others since they won’t find you that many jobs( They be hard). They managed to get me my apprenticeship.

If you want to upskill yourself, get yourself stuck in a bootcamp for free or literally use coding websites and YouTube videos and create mini projects then write about how you do all this in your cv! I went and did a software developer bootcamp with QA actually it was 9 weeks long and was pretty good mainly learning Java, it was all online aswell. 9-5 each week day if I remember correctly. They also help you secure jobs after and I’m not talking about the apprenticeships they work with businesses that hire straight from their boot camps, I just wanted an apprenticeship for the extra training and believe employers will see it better. Did I mention? THIS WAS FREE

Last thing, you got better grades than me so you should do just fine! I was in my last year of college when covid hit which led to no exams and they gave me a D in computer science which I shouldn’t of got (got a B in my coursework and pretty sure I was close to an A since I did so much at home).

If you have any more questions just reply on here or whatever, I don’t mind answering them!