Personal details

At the beginning of a Lebenslauf, you will normally give your personal details. This means that you tell people your name, date of birth, address and telephone number.

Question

See whether you can match these details with the section on the CV where they belong.

Personal information from a CV, the information is in the wrong fields.

Question

Read this email and see whether you can fill in the personal details section for this person’s CV.

A tablet displaying an email profiling the user.

An incomplete table featuring fields for personal information about name, surname, DOB, address, telephone.

Did you know?

When the Germans give their address, they put their street name first, and then their house number. Look at this:

Nordstraße 8, Tönisvorst

This means that this person lives at number 8, Nordstraße (North Street).

Germans usually give out their phone numbers in separate digits like in English. But watch out, as some people occasionally choose to give out numbers in pairs, so you might hear the number 791 640 as either:

sieben-neun-eins, sechs-vier-null - seven-nine-one, six-four-zero
neunundsiebzig, sechzehn, vierzig - seventy-nine, sixteen, forty

A sign displaying a German address with the number after the street name — Image caption,
In German addresses, the number follows the street name, which is the opposite to the convention in the UK

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