CV & Personal Statement Support
Present your experience, goals and strengths clearly and professionally.
Your application documents should show who you are, what you have achieved and why you are applying. Study With FM helps students and other applicants prepare clear, relevant CVs, personal statements and related documents for educational opportunities.
Whether you are starting with a blank page or improving an existing draft, we help you organise your genuine experience and motivation around the requirements of your chosen course, institution or opportunity.
Why clear application documents matter
You may have the right experience but find it difficult to communicate its value. Common challenges include:
- Deciding which qualifications, achievements and experiences to include.
- Turning a collection of ideas into a focused personal statement.
- Organising a CV so the most relevant information is easy to find.
- Explaining academic interests, motivation or a change in study or career direction.
- Tailoring documents to different programmes without relying on generic wording.
- Meeting word limits, formatting instructions and application requirements.
- Improving grammar, clarity and flow, especially when presenting experience gained in another country.
Our role is to help you present your own background more clearly, accurately and convincingly—not to change the facts of your application.
What you can expect
The aim is a document that:
- Accurately reflects your qualifications, experience, achievements and intentions.
- Has a logical structure and clear, professional language.
- Highlights information relevant to the course or opportunity.
- Communicates your motivation and future goals effectively.
- Meets the application instructions you share with us, including relevant length or format requirements.
- Is ready for your own final review and approval before submission.
Depending on the support agreed, you may receive an edited document, a collaboratively developed draft or detailed feedback to help you make improvements. No document can guarantee an offer, interview or admission.
What we can help with
Personal statements
We can help you:
- Plan a structure suited to the application.
- Identify relevant academic interests, experiences and achievements.
- Explain your motivation for the course and your longer-term goals.
- Improve the organisation, focus and flow of an existing draft.
- Edit wording, grammar and clarity, and remove repetition.
- Tailor content to stated programme requirements and word or character limits.
CVs
We can help you:
- Choose an appropriate academic or professional CV structure.
- Organise qualifications, education and employment history.
- Present projects, research, volunteering, extracurricular activities and relevant skills.
- Describe responsibilities and achievements accurately and clearly.
- Improve readability, formatting, language and relevance to the application.
- Review an existing CV or restructure sections that need substantial improvement.
Other application documents
Where appropriate and agreed in advance, we can also support motivation letters, letters of intent, statements of purpose, application supporting statements and academic or professional CVs.
The exact documents, tasks and level of editing are agreed for each case before work begins.
What is not included
Unless separately agreed under another Study With FM service, CV & Personal Statement Support does not include:
- Selecting or submitting university, school or course applications on your behalf.
- Visa applications or regulated immigration advice.
- Obtaining references from referees or verifying qualifications with institutions.
- Inventing, exaggerating or misrepresenting qualifications, employment, experience, research, achievements or personal circumstances.
- Impersonating an applicant or supplying false or misleading information.
- Writing assessed essays, coursework, dissertations, research proposals or other academic work that must be your own.
- Guaranteed admission, interviews, scholarships, employment, visas or other application outcomes.
If you need broader application support, we can help you identify the appropriate separate service.
Your named adviser
Your case is assigned to a named adviser who helps coordinate the agreed document support and provides a consistent point of contact for questions and feedback.
How it works
Tell us what you are applying for
Share the course, institution or opportunity, the document you need, any published instructions and your deadline.
Provide your background and any existing drafts
We ask for the information relevant to your document. You can send an existing draft or start by sharing your education, experience, achievements and goals.
Agree the scope of support
We review your requirements and confirm the work to be provided, expected turnaround, revision arrangements and any applicable fees before work begins.
Develop or improve the document
Depending on what we have agreed, your adviser may help with planning, restructuring, collaborative drafting, editing, rewriting unclear sections or providing detailed feedback.
Review and confirm accuracy
You review the proposed content, check every fact and confirm that the document reflects your own experience and intentions. Any agreed revisions can then be completed.
Receive your final document
The document is prepared for your use in the application. Submission is not part of this service unless it has been separately agreed as part of an application-support service.
What we need from you
Depending on the document, we may ask for:
- Your education history, qualifications and relevant dates.
- Employment, volunteering, projects, research and extracurricular experience.
- Skills, awards, achievements and examples of your responsibilities.
- The course, institution or opportunity you are applying for.
- Your academic interests, reasons for applying and future study or career plans.
- Any existing drafts, application instructions, word or character limits and deadlines.
Not every applicant needs to provide every item. Please provide information that is complete, accurate and truthful.
Turnaround, fees and revisions
The timeframe is confirmed after we review your documents and requirements. It depends on the document type, length, complexity, amount of editing, number of documents and availability of the information needed.
If you have an urgent deadline, tell us when you enquire. We will assess whether the work can be accommodated, but urgent turnaround cannot always be guaranteed.
We confirm individually whether any fee applies and, where relevant, the agreed price before paid work begins. The number and scope of revisions are also agreed for each case; unlimited revisions are not included by default.
Who this service is for
This support may be useful if you are:
- Applying for undergraduate, Master's, postgraduate or PhD study.
- An international applicant explaining education or experience gained in another country.
- Preparing your first academic or professional CV.
- Changing your subject or career direction.
- Starting a personal statement without an existing draft.
- Looking for professional feedback on a document you have already written.
- Applying to multiple institutions and needing to adapt documents to different requirements.
If you need wider PhD support, such as research-proposal guidance, supervisor research or application planning, our Postgraduate & PhD Applications service may be more suitable.
Academic integrity and authenticity
Your application documents must reflect your real qualifications, experiences, achievements, motivations and plans. We can help you plan, structure, edit and present that information, but we will not knowingly include fabricated or misleading content.
You remain responsible for reviewing and approving the final document and ensuring that all submitted information is accurate. You must also follow the rules of the institution or application provider, including any restrictions on third-party assistance, authorship, editing or the use of AI tools.
Frequently asked questions
Related services
Visa Information & Application Preparation is a separate service, where relevant.
Need help presenting your application?
Whether you have a completed draft, a few notes or no document yet, tell us what you are applying for. We can review your needs and explain the support available to help you present your experience and goals clearly.