How to use the Resume Maker
- Fill in your contact details, a short professional summary, and your work history with the most recent role first.
- Add education, skills and any certifications. The preview on the right updates as you type, so you can see how the page fills.
- Download the PDF and attach it to your application.
When to use it
Use it when you need a clean, conventional one- or two-page CV quickly: a job application with a deadline tonight, a tender that asks for the team's résumés, a freelance profile, or a first CV for a student or a family member. The layout is deliberately plain, which is what most recruiters and applicant-tracking systems prefer over designed templates.
What goes in each section
Contact block: name, the title you are applying as (not your current job title if it differs), phone, email, and a city rather than a full street address. Summary: two or three sentences about what you do and what you are looking for, written for this application. Work experience: most recent first, each role with employer, dates, and two to four lines of what you did and what changed because of it. Education, then skills as a comma-separated list, which the tool lays out for you. The photo is optional; include it only where employers in your country expect one.
Worked example
An accountant applying for a finance manager role: title "Finance Manager (ACCA)"; summary "Accountant with eight years in retail finance, currently running month-end for a 12-store chain; looking for a role with ownership of budgeting and a small team." Experience line for the current job: "Cut month-end close from nine working days to five by moving three reconciliations to a shared template." Skills: "Xero, Excel (Power Query), cash-flow forecasting, VAT returns, team of two". That one experience line, with a number in it, does more than a paragraph of duties.
Common mistakes
- Duties instead of results. "Responsible for invoicing" describes the job; "reduced overdue invoices by 40% in six months" describes you.
- One CV for every application. Change the title and the summary each time. It takes two minutes here.
- Unexplained gaps. A one-line entry ("2024: career break, family care") is better than a gap a recruiter has to ask about.
- Long skill lists. Ten skills you can be interviewed on beat thirty you have heard of.
When this tool is the wrong one
It produces a plain, conventional layout on purpose. Designers, photographers and anyone whose work is visual should send a portfolio alongside or instead. Academic CVs with publication lists, and country-specific formats such as the Europass, need their own templates. For a cover letter, write it in a word processor; this tool makes the CV only.
Good to know
Your details are kept in this browser's local storage so you can come back and tailor the CV for another application; they are never uploaded. Keep bullet points to results rather than duties, and check the PDF at print size before sending, because the preview is scaled.