CV template · free

A one-page CV. What you have, at the top.

Not empty fields: a filled-in CV of a fictional person. A year in a shop, an internship, a uni project, her own profile, one course. Every bullet has a number and shows how to write it. You swap in yours, section by section. One column that applicant tracking systems read without trouble.

Swapping takes half an hour. Marta Zielińska, her employers and the numbers are made up; you delete the purple hints at the end.

Preview: first page of Marta Zielińska’s filled-in CV with purple hints

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Applying in Poland? The same example in Polish: filipgorgo.com/cv-szablon.

What’s inside

Six sections, one column.

Details and role

No photo, no date of birth. The role in the first line, named exactly as in the job ad.

About me

Two sentences: who you are today and what you can do from tomorrow. No list of adjectives.

Projects and proof

This is your “experience”, even if it was never a job. Every bullet with a number: how many people, how many times, how long, what came out of it.

Work and internships

Duties turned into results. In the example: a clothing store and an internship at a translation agency.

Courses and education

Every course related to the role, with what came out of it. Education at the bottom, unless it is fresh and fits the role.

Languages and tools

Level as a letter, each tool with what you do in it. No dots or bars.

Where it’s from

From the newsletter on CVs without experience.

Made for issue #25 of What’s Up in Startup: what to put in a CV when you have no numbers, who really reads your CV at a startup and what to cut. If you don’t read it yet: every Friday 5 startup jobs outside IT and one short read like this, free.