An apprenticeship application normally includes a cover letter, CV and the supporting documents requested by the employer. These may include school reports, placement reports and aptitude-test results. Always read the job posting first.
What might you need?
- secondary-school reports
- placement reports or confirmations
- aptitude-test results if requested
- other documents specifically requested
- useful confirmations from holiday jobs or courses
School reports
Scan or photograph them cleanly, in colour and with all pages readable. If there are several reports, put the newest first.
Placement reports
A good report shows that you have already had a real look at the profession. Keep confirmations and feedback from your placements.
Prepare clean PDFs
Swiss career guidance recommends grouping documents of the same type, for example all school reports in one PDF.
PDFPilot lets you combine pages, sort them and save one clean PDF.
First_Last_CoverLetter.pdf
First_Last_SchoolReports.pdf
First_Last_PlacementReports.pdf
Before you send
- correct company and apprenticeship
- all requested documents included
- PDFs readable and upright
- clear file names
Open every PDF yourself once before submitting it. Two minutes can prevent a lot of avoidable mistakes.
Create the CV and cover letter
SwissCVPilot creates your application documents; PDFPilot helps prepare scanned attachments.
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