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TRUST FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING GLOBAL STUDENT ESSAY COMPETITION

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Application Deadline: 18 January 2024

LOCATION: Malaysia

International Student Essay Competition “How can nature help us achieve the UN SDGs in my community?” They want to hear students’ own views on how they feel that nature can support the achievement of the SDGs in their own communities. Students are invited to approach the topic however they wish. They can choose to focus on one SDG, or multiple SDGs that they feel are a key issue within their communities and explore how nature could help to improve the situation. They are strongly encouraged to include their own personal views, perspectives and experiences to help bring their thoughts and visions alive.

ELIGIBILITY:

The judges are looking for originality and creativity in all formats – and the potential to contribute to constructive national or international debate. Unique and well-argued perspectives score highly.

The International Student Essay Competition is open to all students worldwide, aged 7-18 across two age categories – 7-11 years and 12-18 years.

The Sustainability Challenge Video Competition is open to all learners worldwide, across four age categories – 7-11 years, 12-17 years, 18+ and Teachers.

Please read The Brief for full details on competition entry requirements.

BENEFIT:

One overall Grand Prize Winner will receive a trophy and a cash prize of £1000 and £500 for their school, with one Runner Up receiving a trophy and a cash prize of £500 and £250 for their school (cash prizes paid in local currency). All participating Teacher Champions, Essay Finalists & Honourable Mentions, and International Debate participants, will receive personalised e-certificates.

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9 Free Beginner Friendly Resume, CV (& Cover Letter) Creator for Students, Graduates and Experienced Professionals

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Whether you are applying for a job, school admission, internship or scholarship both home abroad, there is almost a 100% chance that you would be asked to submit a CV or resume.

A CV or resume is the first professional image you paint of yourself to your prospective employer or admissions´ officer. I do get a lot of emails about how to create one so I made a list of websites with beginner-friendly templates for creating a CV or resume. These sites have both free and paid template plans but I promise you, the free plans are enough for your projects. Here they are:

EuropassCV: this is great for applications within the European union and Europe in general. Apart from a CV template, they also have a Cover letter template, Europass Cover Letter.

CakeResume: This is a good CV template for creatives who want to add images, videos, slides etc.. It works well for other professionals too.

ResumeNerd: This is a great resume builder for early career applicants, internship and school applications. They also have cover letter builder, cover letter template and formats.

StandardResume: If you have a LinkedIn account and you want to create a CV effortlessly using your profile information on LinkedIn, then this is for you. This resume template allows you to import your professional profile and it saves time.

KickResume: This is an AI-assisted resume builder, it also comes with free cover letter templates.

Wepik: This is a free resume or CV builder which allows you to create a e fully customizable professional resume by downloading their free templates. They also have free cover letter templates.

ResumeCoach: This is an AI-enabled, fast CV builder with beautiful functional templates.

Resume.io: This CV builder pride themselves in delivering professional field-tested resume templates that gets noticed by the employers.

Canva: canva is a free graphical design and editing website but the offer free resume and cover letter templates.