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A CV you're proud to send.
Write it once, choose a design, and send a PDF that reads well to people and to hiring systems. Your CV stays yours, in open formats, on any device.
- 10 designs, drawn for real
- 7 hiring-system checks
- PDF and JSON Resume, yours to keep
One CV, every design. The words stay put; only the design changes.
How it works
Write it once. Send it everywhere.
Answer a few questions
One question at a time, and your CV builds itself beside the answers. A finished CV in minutes; stop halfway and nothing is lost.
Edit on the real page
Click any line to change it. What you see is the PDF, and it says when you've run onto a second page, with a way to fit one.
Send it with confidence
Before you download, EmeraldCV reads your PDF the way hiring systems do and tells you what they'll see.
Designs
Designs with their own character.
Sidebars, timelines, dates in the margin, a Swiss grid. Each design is drawn by the same engine as your PDF, and switching keeps every word. Emerald is free; try every other one with your own CV before you choose Pro.
Before anyone reads it
The first reader is often software.
Many employers run CVs through software that pulls the text out of the PDF and files it under headings. When it reads a two-column CV in the wrong order, nobody tells you.
Elena Marsh
Senior Product Designer · [email protected]
Experience
Northwind Labs, 2021 to now
Led the redesign of onboarding, lifting activation by 18%
Skills
Figma
Prototyping
EXPERIENCE SKILLS Northwind Labs, 2021 Figma to now Led the redesign of Prototyping onboarding, lifting activation by 18%
- Skills filed under Experience
- A sentence broken by the sidebar
A two-column CV read straight across the page, as some parsers do. It happened to one of our own designs while we built the engine; we fixed the design and built a check so it can't happen to yours unnoticed.
Seven checks
Real text, nothing missing, everything under the right heading, characters, contact details, dates and standard headings.
Read two ways
In file order and by layout, the two ways parsers read, from the very PDF you'll download.
Every design tested
Each design passes with a full CV before it ships, in A4 and Letter, two-column designs included.
A fix, not a guess
When a check fails, it says what and takes you to the fix, or makes an ATS-safe copy in the same design.
It's an estimate, and it says so: no hiring system publishes how it reads. Everyone sees whether each check passes; the details, the fixes and the ATS-safe copy come with Pro.
One profile
Tailor it for every job, without starting over.
Your roles, studies, skills and languages live in one profile. Each CV is made from it, so the CV for one job and the CV for another never drift apart.
A CV for each job
Each with its own design, page size and language.
Hide, don't delete
Leave a role off one CV and keep it for the others.
Reword for one CV
Change a line for one application only, or for all of them.
Eight languages
Headings, dates and levels in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch or Romanian.
Yours
Your CV, in open formats.
EmeraldCV isn't somewhere your CV gets stuck. Take everything with you any time, bring a CV from another app, and delete your account in a minute.
PDFs with real text
Selectable, searchable, with working links, and fonts you're free to use.
JSON Resume, in and out
The open standard many CV tools read. Bring yours in, or take any CV out.
One file with everything
Profiles, CVs, designs and photos in one download, ready to bring back.
Delete means deleted
Your account, CVs and photos go at once, and a running subscription ends with them.
Pricing
Free to start. Pro when it counts.
Everything you need for one great CV is free. Pro adds every design, a CV for each job and the full hiring-systems report.
Free
$0.00
For as long as you like.
- One CV and one profile, edited without limits
- PDF downloads in the Emerald design
- The guided setup and the page editor
- Whether each hiring-system check passes
- JSON Resume and the full archive, in and out
Pro
$19.99 once
Or $4.99 a week, cancel any time.
- Everything in Free, and:
- Every design, now and to come
- As many CVs as you need, one for each job
- The full hiring-systems check, with fixes and the ATS-safe copy
- More than one profile, for another career or language
Questions
Good to know.
Is EmeraldCV free?
Yes. One CV and one profile are free for as long as you like, edited without limits and downloaded as a PDF in the Emerald design. Pro adds every design, as many CVs and profiles as you need, and the full hiring-systems report.
Will my CV get past hiring systems?
Nobody can promise that, and we don't. What we can do is check how your PDF reads, the two ways parsers read, and tell you what they'd see. Every design passes those checks as it ships.
Can I take my CV with me?
Any time. Download one file with everything, or any CV as a JSON Resume, the open format many CV tools read. Your PDFs are yours to keep, without a watermark.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes. EmeraldCV runs in any modern browser, on a phone, a tablet or a computer, and your CVs are the same on each.
Which languages can my CV be in?
Headings, dates and language levels can be in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch or Romanian. You write the content in whatever language you like.
What happens to what I write?
It's stored so you can use it from any device, and used for nothing else: no ads, no selling, no training of AI models. Delete your account and it all goes, at once.