Support students applying abroad without stretching your team
When students aim for an internship, a V.I.E assignment or a first job abroad, they meet CV conventions that change from one country to the next, and their applications rarely pass through your careers platform. TopCV gives students country-ready CVs and gives your careers service a clear, consent-based view of mobility, beside your existing tools.
Your counselors cannot know every country’s CV rules
A German employer expects a Lebenslauf with a specific structure; a British recruiter expects a CV without a photo or date of birth; Swiss, Luxembourg and Canadian employers each have their own habits on length, language and personal details. Few careers teams have the time to master all of these.
In practice, the same questions come back in every appointment: which format, which language, photo or no photo, how many pages. Each answer takes counselor time that could go to the conversations only a person can have: choosing a target, preparing an interview, weighing two offers.
Applications abroad happen out of sight
Your careers platform sees the offers it publishes and the applications sent through it. Students who look abroad mostly apply elsewhere: LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, Welcome to the Jungle or employers’ own sites. Those applications leave no trace in your tools.
So the careers service learns about outcomes late, through an end-of-year survey with partial answers, or not at all. It is hard to help a student whose applications go unanswered when nobody knew they were applying.
Leadership asks what the careers service achieves
Management, accreditation bodies and rankings ask for evidence: where graduates go, in which countries, on which contracts. When the data sits in scattered spreadsheets and survey exports, building that picture takes time and still leaves gaps, especially abroad.
Without figures, the work your team does on mobility stays invisible, and it is harder to defend the budget or the positions behind it. A careers service needs a way to show what it supports, without asking counselors to become data analysts.
CVs adapted to each target country
Students start from their own CV and choose a target country. TopCV produces a draft that follows that country’s conventions for format, language and personal details, with a compliance checklist that shows what changed and why. Supported markets include Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Canada.
Counselors no longer have to explain the basics of each format: appointments start from a CV that is already in the right shape and can focus on substance, such as the target role and how the student presents their experience.
- German Lebenslauf structure and conventions
- UK CV without a photo or date of birth
- Swiss, Luxembourg and Canadian norms, including the choice of language
- A starting point, not a final version: each student reviews their CV, and no interview is guaranteed
A mobility dashboard for the careers service
When students share their applications, the careers service sees them aggregated by cohort, country and contract type: who applies where, how far applications progress, and which offers come in. Applications logged from the Chrome extension’s side panel and those entered by hand feed the same view.
That gives you figures you can use: to spot a cohort that is stalling, to see which countries attract your students, and to report on international outcomes to leadership. Statistics export to CSV for your reports.
- Breakdown by cohort, country and contract type (internship, V.I.E, first job…)
- CSV export of anonymised statistics; detailed exports reserved to admins
- Groups of fewer than 5 students hidden automatically
- No scoring or ranking of students: the dashboard describes, it does not grade
Consent before visibility
Each student decides whether to share their applications with the careers service and can turn sharing off at any time. The careers service never sees CVs, cover letters or job ad texts.
The school remains the data controller and TopCV acts as processor; a GDPR data processing agreement can be provided on request. The security page details what is processed and which subprocessors are involved.
Beside JobTeaser, not instead of it
TopCV does not publish job offers and does not replace your careers platform. Students keep finding internships and jobs where they do today.
TopCV comes in at the next step, when they apply abroad: it adapts the CV to the target country, tracks applications sent on other sites, and gives the school a country-by-country view that the platform alone does not provide.
Start with one cohort for one semester
You do not need to roll TopCV out across the school to judge it. The pilot covers one cohort for one semester: your school space opens, you paste the student list from your export, and students receive their invitations.
The pilot comes with an activation commitment: if fewer than 40% of the cohort activate, the pilot is fully refunded. At the end of the semester, you look at adoption and mobility figures before deciding on an annual licence.
Ready to try it with one cohort?
A pilot with an activation commitment is enough to measure adoption before committing to an annual licence. If fewer than 40% of the cohort activate, the pilot is fully refunded. The activation rate is calculated over all invited students, including expired invitations.