Resume & CV maker

Why this one is a single column

Most CV builders sell you a template with a coloured sidebar, a photo and two columns. They look good on screen and they are the most reliable way to confuse an applicant tracking system — the software that reads your CV before a person does. A parser walks the document in order, and a two-column layout gives it your job titles interleaved with your skills list.

So this is one column, in reading order, with real headings and real text. It is plainer. It is also far more likely to arrive intact. No tool can promise a particular employer's system will read your CV correctly, but this avoids the things that usually break it.

Resume or CV — which one do you need?

Usually the same document, and this makes it either way. The word changes with the country: resume in the US and Canada,CV in the UK, Ireland, most of Europe, South Asia, Australia and the Gulf. Applying from one to the other does not mean rewriting anything — call the file what the job ad calls it and send the same document.

There is one real exception. In academia and medicine an American CV is a different animal: a full record of publications, grants, teaching and talks, which runs to many pages and grows for a whole career. That is not what this builds. For every other job — including every job that reaches you through an applicant tracking system — the short targeted version is the one you want.

The conventions differ a little too, and the defaults here follow the stricter set: no photo, no date of birth, no marital status, no nationality. All four are ordinary on a CV in parts of Asia and Europe and all four are avoided on a US or Canadian resume on hiring-bias grounds. A document without them is accepted everywhere, so it is the safer one to send in either direction.

What it does and does not do

• No photo. Normal in much of Asia and Europe, discouraged in the UK, US and Canada on hiring-bias grounds. Leaving it out is the safer default and parses more reliably.
• No street address. City and country are what employers actually use. The rest is personal data with no upside on a document you send to strangers.
• Real text in the PDF, not a picture of a CV — so it can be searched, copied and read by a screen reader.
• A page count you can see, plus a density control, so "keep it to one page" is something you can actually do rather than guess at.

Getting the experience section right

This is the part that decides it. A bullet that says "responsible for the company website" tells a reader nothing they can weigh. One that says "rebuilt the checkout and cut drop-off by a third" tells them what you can do for them. Lead with the change, give the number where you have one, and keep it to one line.

Your CV never leaves your device

A CV holds your phone number, your email and where you have worked. This page makes no network request carrying any of it — the whole tool runs in your browser, and the PDF is produced by your browser's own print engine. The draft is kept in your browser's local storage so it is still there tomorrow, and clearing your browser data clears it.

Is a free tool like this safe to use?

The honest answer is about what the page can and cannot do rather than a badge. There is no server behind it — no account, no database, nothing submitted anywhere — so there is no store of CVs to be breached, because there is no store. What you type is rendered into the preview with every character escaped, the page runs under a strict Content Security Policy that permits only scripts this site published by hash, and there is no eval anywhere in it.

Questions

Is this a resume builder or a CV maker?

Both — for most jobs they are the same document under two names. Resume in the US and Canada, CV in the UK, Europe, South Asia, Australia and the Gulf. The one exception is an academic or medical CV, which is a long publications record and is not what this builds.

Is it free?

Yes — no account, no watermark, no paid tier. It runs in your browser, so it costs us nothing to serve.

How do I get the PDF?

Press Download PDF and choose "Save as PDF" as the destination in the print dialog.

How do I make it fit one page?

Watch the page count above the preview, then set Density to Compact on the last step, or cut a bullet. Both are faster than guessing and reprinting.

Can I have a different template?

Not yet — there is one layout, and it is the one built to survive a parser. If you want a designed CV for a portfolio or a creative role, that is a different job and we would rather do it properly than add a sidebar here.

Will it work on my phone?

Yes. The editor steps through one screen at a time and the preview has its own tab. Saving to PDF from a phone browser works the same way — share or print, then "Save as PDF".

Who made this

Maxverse Lab is a software studio in Karachi — websites, e-commerce stores, apps and the marketing around them. We build free tools like this one because they are useful and because they show how we work. See what we do, or try the invoice generator if you are freelancing. The image compressor will get your photo down to a sensible size before you add it, and the typing speed test gives you a real number if a job advert asks for one.

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