Specify a canceled study in your CV - that's how it works

An aborted study may not be pleasant, but it should still be on your CV. In this article, we show how you can correctly enter the relevant information.

This means that an aborted course of study is not a disadvantage

In your CV, you indicate your previous professional career and previous education. The information should always be complete. This means: Describe what you have done for each period, even if you later canceled the corresponding activity. If there are long gaps in your CV, these will be discussed in the interview anyway.

• If you indicate your dropped-out degree, you do not have to add an explicit note about the drop-out. Simply indicate in the usual form in which period you completed which degree.
• It is common that you insert the acquired title and the final grade in completed courses. Simply omit this information for the interrupted course. This means that the HR department can see what has happened without you paying particular attention to the termination.
• It is important that you can answer questions during the interview about your abandoned studies. It is very likely that you will be asked relevant questions. You should be able to explain in a well-founded manner why you decided to cancel and work out the positive results.
• Don't talk badly about the university or professors, even if they contributed to your decision. It just looks unprofessional and possibly arrogant.
• Instead, use healthy self-confidence to explain what motivated you to take the appropriate steps and how your educational path benefited. A dropout is far from being a knockout criterion today, as long as you can justify it.

There is also a lot of uncertainty if a salary requirement is to be stated in the application. In the next post, we will show you how to best implement this.