A CV version is a saved combination of your profile and a design. Make as many as your package allows, and name them after the job you will send them to — “Frontend — Pasal”, not “CV final 3”.
Picking a design
- Modern, single column. The safe default for almost every application, and the one to send when the employer’s system might read the file.
- Two column with a sidebar. Good for skills, languages and contact details, when you have a lot of short facts and want the top of the page to read quickly. Print it before you send it: some printers push sidebars onto a second page.
- Classic serif. Government, banking, teaching, NGOs, and anywhere that has been reading the same format for twenty years.
- ATS plain. No columns, no colours, no icons, no photo. This is the file for a system that parses the text. If a job posting asks you to upload to a portal, use this one.
Every design is one click from your profile
Change a fact in Career Profile and every version that uses it changes with it. That is the whole point of versions: a design and a tailored set of lines, over one set of facts that is never out of date.
Dos and don’ts
- Do keep it to two pages at most, and one page if you have under five years of experience.
- Do keep the order newest first everywhere.
- Don’t put a photo on a CV you are uploading to an automated system. Use the ATS design there.
- Don’t mix three accent colours. One is a design choice; three is a mistake.
Next: printing and exporting the file, or tailoring one version to one role.