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Turn Your Leap Into
CV / UCAS Gold
Adventure on the surface. CV/UCAS gold underneath.
Turn Your Leap into CV/UCAS Gold
How to turn everything you did, learned and overcame into evidence that helps you stand out.
Whether your Leap was part of a gap year, an Under-18 summer or a school expedition, you came home with more than brilliant memories. You came home with real evidence for CVs, UCAS applications and interviews.
You already have the experience. Now you need to know how to use it.
Whether you’re writing your first CV, preparing for an interview or completing a UCAS application, these practical guides will help you identify your strongest Leap evidence and explain it with confidence.
Does Volunteering Abroad Count as Work Experience?
Understand when volunteering counts as valuable work experience and how to present your projects, responsibilities and skills accurately.
How to Use Your Leap Experience in Your UCAS Application
Connect your project experience, personal growthand transferable skills to your chosen course and future university plans.
How to Describe Volunteering Abroad on Your CV | The Leap
Learn how to explain your contributionprofessionally, credit local expertise and avoid exaggerating the impact ofyour role.
How to Talk About Your Leap Experience in a Job Interview
Turn your projects, challenges and team experiencesinto confident interview answers using the simple STAR technique.
How to Put Your Leap Experience on Your CV
Discover where your Leap belongs on your CV and how to turn project work and team challenges into strong evidence.
8 Transferable Skills Employers Look For | The Leap
Identify the communication, teamwork, leadershipand resilience hidden inside your adventure — and find real moments that prove them.
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Capture Your CV/UCAS Gold
Your strongest evidence is often hidden in the smaller moments — when you stepped forward, adapted to change, supported your team or kept going when things felt difficult.
Capture those stories while they are still fresh and turn them into evidence you can use on your CV, in your UCAS application and during interviews.
Download our free CV/UCAS Gold Workbook to identify your strongest examples and shape them into confident, ready-to-use answers.
