Create your CV in a few clicks, for FREE.
Eight short questions in plain words. We write it up properly, you tick what is true, and you download it.
100% free, including the download. No account, no email, no payment, no watermark.
Saved on this device as you go, and nothing is sent to us.
From your documents
You already have everything a CV needs.
Photograph your transcript, your certificates, the IELTS report and any experience letter. The builder reads your board, your campus, your years and your marks straight off them. Phone photos are fine.
What we take, and what we refuse
Transcript or marksheet
The qualification, the institution, the board or university, the years, and your marks exactly as printed.
IELTS, PTE, TOEFL or Duolingo report
The test, the overall score, the band breakdown and the date. The breakdown is often what secures a waiver.
Experience or recommendation letter
The job title, the employer, the dates and the duties, turned into CV bullets in the letter's own words.
Training certificate, award or scholarship letter
The title, who issued it and the year.
Never taken from any of them: date of birth, age, gender, marital status, religion, caste, your father's or mother's name, your citizenship or passport number, your symbol or registration number, or your street address. You are shown, per document, exactly what was seen and left off.
Five patterns
A CV is not one document.
A funding panel, a PhD supervisor and a duty manager in Leeds want three different things. The tool picks; here is what it picks between.
1 page
Fresh graduate
Education first, because that is your strongest card.
- You have just finished +2 or a bachelor's
- Little or no paid work experience
- Applying for a bachelor's, diploma or master's
1 to 2 pages
Experience-led
What you have done, before what you studied.
- Two or more years of work
- Applying for a master's, MBA or a scholarship that wants experience
- Also the right shape for a part-time job once you land
1 to 2 pages
Skills-first
Leads with what you can do, so a gap is not the first thing read.
- A gap of a year or more you would rather not headline
- Changing field: IT after a management degree, say
- Lots of short jobs, freelance or family business work
2 pages, and it is allowed to run longer
Research & academic
Publications, supervisors and methods, in the order a department reads them.
- Applying for a PhD, MPhil or research master's
- You have a thesis, a paper, a poster or a conference talk
- Applying for a graduate assistantship in the USA
2 pages
Scholarship
Built for the panels that fund leadership, not just marks.
- Chevening, Commonwealth, GREAT, Destination Australia
- You have led something. A club, a campaign, a team, a village project
- Community and volunteering work you have never put on a CV
1 to 2 pages
Side panel
Your evidence down the middle, the short facts down the side.
- A job or internship application
- Anyone with more skills and languages than work history
- A CV a person will read before software does
1 to 2 pages
Banded
Each heading in a soft colour band, so the page has a shape.
- A first job where the CV has to look like effort was made
- Anyone whose sections are short and need separating
- Sending as an attachment rather than pasting into a form
1 to 2 pages
Rated skills
Skills scored down the side, for when the skills are the point.
- A technical or office role listing software
- Anyone with a long skills list and a short work history
- Showing a level rather than claiming one in words
The rules nobody wrote down
Seven things that get a CV binned.
None of these are about writing well. They are conventions, and the cost of breaking one is that you hear nothing back and never learn why. The builder enforces all seven.
- 1One page for every two years of experience, and never more than two pages unless it is an academic CV.
- 2Reverse chronological order inside every section. Most recent first, with no exceptions.
- 3No photograph. Not in any of the five destinations.
- 4No date of birth, marital status, gender, religion, caste, or father's name.
- 5A plain single column. Tables and text boxes are what break applicant tracking systems.
- 6Save as PDF unless the application form explicitly asks for Word.
- 7Name the file properly: Ram-Thapa-CV.pdf, not cv-final-2.pdf.
By destination
What each country expects.
Applied once you pick where you are going. Worth reading anyway: the same rules govern the covering letter.
United Kingdom
Called a CV.
2 pages maximum. One page if you are a fresh graduate.
Leave off
- No photograph
- No date of birth or age
- No marital status, gender, religion or caste
- No father's or husband's name
- No nationality unless the form asks for it separately
They expect
- A short personal profile at the top, three or four lines
- Reverse chronological order: most recent first, always
- "Referees available on request" rather than their phone numbers
- British spelling: organisation, programme, specialise
UK universities and employers work under equality law that makes age, gender and marital status unusable. A CV carrying them is often discarded unread to prove it was not considered.
United States
Called a Résumé for jobs and taught programmes; CV only for research and academia.
Strictly 1 page for a résumé. An academic CV may run to several.
Leave off
- No photograph
- No date of birth, age or marital status
- No referees on the document itself
- No "Curriculum Vitae" as a heading on a one-page résumé
They expect
- Achievements with numbers in them, not duties
- GPA converted and shown as "3.4/4.0" if it is strong
- American spelling: organization, program, specialize
- A skills section an applicant tracking system can read
Almost every US application passes through an applicant tracking system before a person sees it. Tables, columns, headers and text inside images are what break those systems, which is why the downloads here are plain, single-column text.
Canada
Called a Résumé for jobs, CV for graduate study.
1 to 2 pages.
Leave off
- No photograph
- No date of birth, age, gender or marital status
- No Social Insurance Number
They expect
- Volunteer work treated as seriously as paid work
- Canadian spelling sits between British and American, favour "centre" and "organization"
- Any Canadian study or work permit status stated plainly if you have one
Canadian employers and admissions offices read volunteering as evidence of community involvement, which is weighted more heavily than most Nepali students expect.
Australia
Called a Resume or CV: the two are used interchangeably.
2 to 3 pages is normal and not held against you.
Leave off
- No photograph
- No date of birth or marital status
They expect
- Referees with names and contact details are commonly included
- Any Australian visa status or work rights stated clearly
- Australian spelling, which follows British: organisation, programme
Australia is the one destination of the five where a longer CV with named referees is the norm rather than a warning sign.
New Zealand
Called a CV.
2 to 3 pages.
Leave off
- No photograph
- No date of birth or marital status
They expect
- Two named referees, usually with contact details
- A short profile at the top
- New Zealand spelling follows British convention
New Zealand employers place unusual weight on referees actually being reachable. Ask permission before you list anyone, and warn them a call may come.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked about this.
- Is it really free, or free until the download?
- Free at the download. There is no account, no email wall, no watermark and no paid tier. The PDF, the Word file and the plain text are all the finished thing. We ask whether you want a counsellor to read it only after you have already saved the file, and you can ignore that.
- Do I have to send my citizenship or passport?
- No, and mostly you should not. A citizenship certificate contributes almost nothing to a CV. We take your name and your district off it and refuse the rest, and the rest is most of the document. A passport is worth sending for one reason only: the exact spelling of your name, which every application and every visa form has to match. Nothing else on either document is read, and neither is stored.
- My certificates are photos on my phone. Is that good enough?
- Yes, that is what the document upload is built for, and it is what almost every student has. Lay the certificate flat, get the whole page in frame and avoid a shadow across the middle. If your phone is an iPhone it will save the photo as HEIC, which we cannot read; sharing it as a JPEG or emailing it to yourself converts it, and the upload screen tells you so if it happens.
- What happens to my CV and my details?
- The CV you build is stored in your own browser and nowhere else, which is why it survives closing the tab and why clearing your browsing data clears it. If you upload an old CV, the file is read in memory and dropped when the page responds; its text passes through an extraction model to pull the fields out, and it is not saved and not treated as an enquiry. Nothing goes to our CRM unless you fill in the callback box yourself.
- Why is there no place to add my photograph?
- Because none of the five destinations want one, and several will discard a CV that has one. In the UK, Canada and the USA a recruiter or admissions officer cannot lawfully weigh your age, gender or appearance, and the safest way to prove they did not is to bin any document that showed them. The same goes for date of birth, marital status, gender, religion, caste and your father's name, all standard on a Nepali CV, all actively harmful abroad.
- Will it get through the applicant tracking systems?
- That is what the single-column layout and the real-text PDF are for. Most free CV builders draw your CV onto an image and wrap it in a PDF; it looks perfect to you and is completely unreadable to the software that screens it, and you never find out. Ours prints selectable text through your browser, so it parses. The plain-text download exists for the forms that give you a bare textarea.
- My CV is two pages and the tool says it should be one. Who is right?
- The tool, usually, but it is an estimate from a word and line count, so check the preview, which is true to the page. If you are a fresh graduate, one page is correct and cutting to it is the exercise. If you have five years of work or you are applying for a PhD, two is right and you should switch pattern rather than cut.
- Can I use this if I am not applying through Sprout?
- Yes. Use it, download it, and apply on your own. The same as the loan calculator and the links page. If it turns out you would rather someone walked the process with you, we are on New Baneshwor Chowk.
We will read it line by line.
A checklist cannot tell you whether two years in a family business reads as real experience to a Canadian admissions officer. Bring the CV in, or ring us.
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