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A CV (curriculum vitae) is a one- to two-page summary of your experience, skills and education, written for a specific position. It differs from the personal record form (sơ yếu lý lịch) in that you choose what to say and what to leave out: the personal record form is a standard declaration, while the CV is a short piece of persuasion. Your profile on Việc Hot is the underlying data: you enter your experience, skills and education once, every new CV you create pulls in those sections, and you only adjust them to fit the job you are applying for.

Readers skim in an F pattern: the first line, the left-hand column, then the section headings. That is why your name and target position belong on the very first line, not a large "CURRICULUM VITAE" heading; the three-sentence summary sits directly below so they can decide whether to read on; experience takes up most of the page, with your most recent job at the top. Education only needs your highest qualification and moves further down once you have been working for more than two years.

Students and people without experience reverse the order: education first, with your GPA if it is good, then your graduation project or internship written up like a real job, activities in which you had a specific role, and only then skills. See the details in the CV templates for students.

Heading and contact details

The CV heading is your full name and the exact job title used in the job post: "Nguyễn Minh Đức, General Accountant". Contact details are your phone number, a sensible email address (your name, not a nickname from your school days), the city you live in and one link if it adds value: LinkedIn, GitHub, Behance or your CV link on Việc Hot. Your full home address, ID card number and marital status are unnecessary; Article 16 of the Labour Code 2019 (Bộ luật Lao động 2019) only requires information directly related to concluding a contract, and that information is asked for once you have been hired.

Three-sentence summary

Sentence one: who you are, how many years you have in the field, your strongest area. Sentence two: your most notable achievement, with a figure. Sentence three: what you want to do in this position. Avoid "career objectives" such as "seeking to develop myself in a professional environment"; a sentence like that gives the reader no information at all.

Work experience

For each job, give the job title, the company and the dates by month and year, followed by three to five bullet points. The formula for each bullet is action verb, object, figure, result. "Responsible for sales" says nothing; "Managed 35 dealers in central Vietnam with sales of 2.4 billion VND a month, beating target in 3 out of 4 quarters of 2025" does. If you have no revenue figures, use the number of clients, files, team members or occasions, or the time saved.

Skills, education, certificates

Split skills into two groups: tools and expertise (software, programming languages, professional know-how, foreign languages with your level) and working skills (list these only when your experience section backs them up). Drop rating bars such as "Excel 80%", because nobody knows what 80% means. For education, give your highest qualification, the school and the year you graduated; include your GPA only if it is 3.2/4 or higher, or if you have just graduated. For certificates, give the full name, the issuing body and the year; leave out certificates that are about to expire or are irrelevant.

Photo, interests, referees

A photo is optional. If you use one, choose a portrait against a plain background, well lit, dressed as you would be for the interview; do not crop yourself out of a group photo or reuse an old ID photo. List interests only when they say something more about you in relation to the job, for example marathon running for a role that needs stamina. You do not need to list referees up front; write "available on request" and have two names ready, people who have agreed to be contacted.

Many mid-sized and larger companies receive applications through recruitment management software, known as an applicant tracking system (ATS). The software reads your CV file, extracts your name, contact details, each job and your skills, then ranks you by how closely you match the job description. A CV that looks good to people but is hard for software to read ends up at the bottom, however capable you are. To make sure the software reads it correctly:

• A one-column or clearly divided two-column layout, with no text placed inside text boxes, tables or images.
• Standard section headings: Work Experience, Education, Skills; nothing creative such as "My Journey".
• A text-based PDF, not a PDF scanned from an image; check by trying to highlight the text in the file.
• A file name with your name and the position: Nguyen-Minh-Duc-General-Accountant.pdf.
• The exact keywords from the job post: if it says "general accountant", do not just write "internal accountant".
• No icons in place of words for your phone number and email, and no white text to hide keywords.

On Việc Hot, the ATS-friendly CV templates are built on exactly these principles. Before you apply, paste the job post into the CV and job post matching tool to see which keywords from the post do not yet appear in your CV.

One page for less than five years' experience, two pages for more or for management roles; no situation calls for three pages. Use a sans-serif font at 10.5 to 11.5 pt for the body and 14 to 18 pt for your name, one accent colour on a white background, and margins of at least 1.5 cm so nothing is cut off when printed. Strong colours and shapes only suit design, media and creative fields; accounting, legal and banking favour simple, professional templates.

The Việc Hot templates are grouped by style and by industry so you can choose quickly:

Write your CV in English when the job post is in English, when foreigners take part in the hiring, or when a foreign language is part of the job. Otherwise, a well-written Vietnamese CV is always better than a stilted English one. If you do make an English version, keep the same layout and use the standard section names:

• One CV sent to every position, without adapting the heading and summary to the job post.
• Jobs described as vague responsibilities, with no figures or results.
• Unexplained gaps, or three jobs in one year with no reason given.
• Spelling mistakes, random capitalisation, two or three fonts on one page.
• Overstating your role: "project manager" when you were in fact a team member; one reference call from the employer and it comes out.
• Sending a Word file or a photo, so the formatting breaks when it is opened on another computer.
• Information in the CV that contradicts your online profile and personal record form.

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   Choose a template from the list above

   103 templates, each with 10 layouts, 36 backgrounds and 69 fonts; click "Preview" to see the full page before you choose.

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   Choose where the content comes from

   Fill it in from your Việc Hot profile, from a CV you have already created, from a CV file on your computer or from sample content, or start with a blank page. The more complete your profile, the less you have to retype for a new CV.

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   Tailor it to the job you are applying for

   Change the heading, rewrite the summary and reorder the bullet points to match the requirements in the post. One CV for each job post, each saved separately in your account.

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   Download a PDF or share a link

   A text-based PDF for applying by email and through recruitment systems; a CV link to send by message or add to online profiles, always showing the latest version.