Resume builder

What this tool does

It turns what you type into a clean CV and saves it as a PDF. You fill in your name, a headline, one contact line and a short summary, then as many sections as you need: experience, education, skills, projects, languages, anything else. Each section holds entries with a title, an organisation, dates and details, and a line that starts with a dash becomes a bullet point. Sections and entries can be moved up and down or removed, the preview updates as you type, and three templates (Classic, Modern and Compact) change the look without changing the content.

The PDF holds real text in a single column, drawn top to bottom in the order you see. That matters twice: a recruiter can copy your e-mail address from it, and an applicant tracking system (ATS), the software many employers use to collect and search applications, can read it. The font is embedded, so Vietnamese and other accented names print correctly instead of turning into boxes.

Your CV never leaves your device. There is no account and no upload; the only file the page downloads when you make the PDF is a font from this same site. You can save your work as a JSON file and open it again later, here or on another computer, or ask the tool to remember it in this browser.

How to use it

1. Replace the example with your name, a headline (the role you want, not a slogan) and a contact line: e-mail, phone, city and one link is plenty.
2. Write a summary of two or three sentences: what you do, for how long, and what you are good at.
3. Edit the sections. Use plain headings (Experience, Education, Skills) so both people and software recognise them. Use the arrow buttons to put the most relevant section first.
4. For each entry, put the job title or degree in Title, the employer or school in Organisation, and keep the Dates in one format throughout. In Details, start lines with a dash for bullet points, and begin each bullet with what you did and what came of it.
5. Choose a template and paper size and press Download PDF. The tool tells you how many pages it made; if it is more than two, shorten the older entries or try the Compact template.
6. Press Save as JSON to keep an editable copy. Next time, open that file to carry on.

What makes a CV easy to read, for people and for software

Recruiters skim. Put the most important things where the eye lands first: your headline, your current or most recent job, and numbers that show results ("cut report time from 40 to 6 minutes" says more than "improved reporting"). Keep it to one page if you have a few years of experience, two if you have many; nobody reads a third.

Applicant tracking systems read the text of your file. They cope best with one column, standard section headings, real text rather than images of text, and dates written the same way everywhere. Tables, text boxes, icons for phone and e-mail, and two-column designs are where parsing most often goes wrong, which is why every template here is a single column of text. Use the words from the job advert where they truthfully describe you; the software searches for them, and so does the recruiter. Our article on structuring a one-page CV that passes humans and ATS goes through a worked example.

Tips

• Leave out a photo, date of birth, marital status and ID number unless the employer asks for them. Many international employers prefer you do not include them.
• Name the file after yourself; the tool already does (nguyen-minh-anh-cv.pdf, not cv-final-2.pdf).
• If an employer asks for a Word file, send one: follow the application instructions over any general advice.
• Use the text toolkit to count the words in your summary, and the PDF toolkit if an application wants your CV and certificates merged into one file.