Professional CV Template
A clear chronological format for candidates with relevant employment history.
- Easy to edit
- Clear employment history
- Achievement focused
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Build a stronger CV. Present the real you better.
Practical CV templates, step-by-step guidance and responsible AI advice to help you present your genuine skills and experience clearly.
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Free CV templates
Everything you need to improve your CV without inventing experience.
Skills-Based CV Template
A flexible format that leads with transferable skills and practical evidence.
- Useful for career changes
- Highlights transferable skills
- Prompts evidence and outcomes
These editable templates open in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice and most word processors. Replace every item shown in square brackets before applying.
Build your CV step by step
Six essentials for a stronger CV
Work through these practical checks before sending your next application.
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Start with clear contact details
Use your name, town or city, phone number, professional email address and a relevant LinkedIn or portfolio link.
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Write a tailored profile
In three to five lines, explain your experience, strongest relevant skills, target role and the value you can offer.
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Support skills with evidence
Do not only list skills. Give short, truthful examples showing where you used each skill and what happened as a result.
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Focus experience on achievements
Start bullet points with actions such as improved, delivered, supported, created or managed. Add honest numbers and outcomes where possible.
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Add relevant education and training
Include qualifications, certificates and training that support the role. Give the most space to the most relevant information.
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Complete a final accuracy check
Check spelling, dates, contact details, links and unfinished placeholders. Read every statement and make sure you can explain and evidence it at interview.
Using AI for your CV
Use AI to improve your CV, not invent your career
AI can be useful for improving wording, spelling, grammar, structure and clarity. It should help you present information you have genuinely provided. It should never create experience for you.
Good ways to use AI
- Make genuine information clearer
- Improve spelling and grammar
- Shorten long sentences
- Remove repetition
- Help structure genuine responsibilities and achievements
Never ask AI to
- Invent qualifications, skills or experience
- Increase your level of responsibility
- Create achievements, figures or results
- Add systems or software you have never used
- Change job titles, employers or dates
If you cannot explain it and evidence it at interview, do not put it on your CV.
Copy this prompt
Review the CV information I provide and help me improve the clarity, grammar, structure and professional wording. Do not invent, assume or add any skills, qualifications, responsibilities, achievements, dates, job titles, systems or experience that I have not given you. If information is missing, ask me a question rather than filling in the gap.
Copy the prompt first, then open the official Gemini website in a new tab. Gemini is an optional third-party service and is not operated by Recrovia or Able Personnel. Check every suggestion before using it in your CV.
Make your CV easy to read and easy to use
- Use a simple, professional layout
- Use clear headings such as Profile, Experience, Skills and Education
- Avoid text boxes, columns, graphics and complicated layouts
- Keep employment dates and job titles clear
- Use a normal readable font
- Keep important information in the main body of the CV
- Save an editable Word version as well as a PDF
- Make sure somebody can quickly understand what you do and what you have achieved
A good CV does not need clever design. It needs to make your experience easy to understand.
Before you apply
- Tailor your profile and key skills to the vacancy
- Put your strongest relevant evidence near the top
- Remove unfinished placeholders
- Check spelling, dates and contact details
- Save a clean final copy
Keep your Recrovia CV up to date
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Help employers understand what you can offer
Employers searching Recrovia can only assess the information you choose to provide. Keep your CV accurate, current and focused on the roles you want to be found for.
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These templates and guides are self-help resources. They do not include a manual CV review and do not guarantee interviews, job offers or employment. You remain responsible for checking that all information on your CV is accurate and truthful.