Start with the role and essential contact details
Read the vacancy and note its main responsibilities. Without a specific vacancy, choose a group of roles you want to pursue. Put your name, a professional email address and useful links, such as an up-to-date portfolio, near the top. A short introduction can explain your field and relevant strengths. Replace broad claims such as “highly motivated” with information about the work you can contribute to.
Organize sections around your experience
For each experience, give the role, organization and dates, followed by activities and contributions. Reverse chronological order makes recent experience easy to find. If you have limited employment experience, relevant education, placements, volunteering or projects can demonstrate your skills; make their context clear. Separate technical skills from languages and describe levels you can support. You do not have to fill every available section: keep the ones that help a reader assess this application.
Describe a contribution: a worked example
Illustrative example: “Customer management” leaves the reader guessing. If it reflects your work, a clearer description is: “Handled customer email enquiries, checked order status and coordinated responses with the warehouse.” Add quantities or outcomes only when they are accurate and verifiable. Supporting a process does not mean you owned the entire department. Each statement should be something you can discuss precisely at an interview, including what you did and who else was involved.
Check readability and personal information
Use recognizable section headings, short sentences and a readable text size. The right length depends on your experience, the role and the application instructions: remove repetition rather than essential context. Consider whether a photograph and personal details are relevant or requested in the setting you are applying to. Avoid including identity documents or sensitive details without a specific reason. Proofread names, dates and contact information as well as the errors a spelling tool highlights.
Review the PDF and keep a complete profile
In EasyPeasyCV you can collect information in your profile and reuse it across multiple CVs. Choose relevant entries, select a template and inspect the preview. Before sending your PDF, open it outside the editor too: check page breaks, contact details, links and selectable text. Follow the file format specified by the employer and choose a recognizable filename, such as Firstname-Lastname-CV.pdf. Keep omitted experiences in your profile so they remain available for a different application.
Before you send your CV
- Contact details are current and links have been checked.
- Roles, organizations and dates are consistent throughout.
- Relevant experience is described without unsupported claims.
- The PDF has been opened and reviewed, with the required format and filename.