About Norvli
Writing a resume is hard. Norvli does the hard part with you.
Most people write a resume only a few times in their life, and nobody ever tells them what a good one looks like. We take the guessing out of it. Norvli asks what you actually did and writes each line back as something a recruiter can act on, in the format employers in your country expect. Then it reads the finished page the way an employer's screening software will, and tells you what that software cannot see.
We can't promise you a job. We can make sure the page a recruiter opens is short, clear and easy to read, and that's the part you control. That's what gets a resume read instead of skipped.
Before you write anything, sit down and list everything you've done at work. Write down the small things too, even the ones you're sure nobody cares about. Then read the job ad and mark the ones the recruiter is asking for. Most people find something on that list they'd never have thought to put on the page, and it's often the strongest line they have.
What a resume should contain also changes from country to country. A photo is expected in some places and a reason to be rejected in others, and the same goes for your date of birth or your marital status. We keep a country-by-country reference so you can check before you send anything.
What makes a resume work
- Put a number in as many lines as you can: a percent, an amount, a number of people, or a length of time.
- Use the same words as the job ad. Machines match words exactly.
- Start each line with an action word, then say what you did, how you did it, and the result.
- Put your best result first, not your daily tasks.
- Keep it to one page, unless you've got more than ten years of work.
- Leave out your date of birth, marital status and nationality, unless the country expects them.
The builder repeats this advice at the field it applies to, while you write.
From the makers of CVnello, the free resume and CV builder.