Swiss CV template: structure and a complete example

The fictional sample shows a complete CV with twelve years of product experience. Download the editable text file and replace the details with your own. The University of Basel recommends sections by topic, with the most recent entries first.

Choose an order that suits your background. After several years in work, relevant employment usually needs more space. If education is still your main experience, it can appear earlier. Make the experience that matters for this role easy to find.

• Contact: your name and contact details, checked before sending.
• Brief profile, where useful: direction and relevant experience, not a list of adjectives.
• Employment and projects: dates, role, context and specific responsibilities.
• Education and training: relevant qualifications with an accurate completion status.
• Languages and professional skills: understandable descriptions rather than decorative scales.
• Other relevant activities: include them with a clear connection to the application.

The recommendations differ: Basel suggests no more than two pages, while UZH allows two to three. These are guidelines, not a universal obligation. Specialist profiles and explicit employer instructions can call for something different.

Remove repetition before reducing readability. An older job can be more compact than a recent relevant project. Keep accurate dates and explain the actual work instead of inventing positions to disguise gaps.

Aisha’s example names eight engineering and design colleagues and a reduction in account setup time from ten to six days. Those details explain her work on the onboarding process. Look for details from your own work when editing your CV.

Every task does not need a metric. You can explain the enquiries you handled, procedures you documented or decisions you helped prepare. Leave out figures you cannot confirm.

The dedicated photo guide below covers the photo decision. Keep that question separate from whether your experience is clearly presented.

Our technical self-check: open the exported file on a second device, select some text and check its order when copied. This is not an ATS certificate; it is a basic check for display and text problems. Also review every field extracted by the employer's portal.