CV template for Brazil (currículo format)

Meridian prints labelled skill rows above the jobs, so SQL, Power BI and each language with its level are read before the employers. It has no colour, only thin grey rules beside the headings, which fits the Poli UFRJ career office's warning against templates full of borders, margins and drawings.

Second choice: Leslie. Leslie moves the jobs ahead of the skills and adds a blue header, for candidates whose employers matter more than their tools.

Meridian template details and test results

Meridian prints its sections in a fixed order, the same in the PDF and the Word file. Here is that order for this sample, and what to put in each section.

1. Professional Summary. UDESC's guide asks for an objetivo naming the post you want, then a short sumário of your career, training and goals. Poli UFRJ adds why you suit the area and your main technical and behavioural strengths. Fold both into three sentences that end on the vacancy.
2. Skills. For languages, UDESC wants the level (basic, intermediate, advanced, fluent) and the kind of command: reading, conversation, writing. Poli UFRJ notes you do not need a diploma for every language you list. Keep tools in their own labelled row.
3. Work Experience. Poli UFRJ lists year or period, place, position and the main activities, newest first. UDESC adds a line on what each company does and asks for fact, qualification and result, with the older jobs described more briefly than the recent one.
4. Education. Highest qualification first, with course, institution, city, whether you finished and the year, as UDESC sets out. Secondary school belongs only if it was a technical course or still matters for the job; Poli UFRJ suggests it for undergraduates.
5. Complementary courses. Both university guides give extra courses a section of their own, recent and related to the job, with the institution and date. Poli UFRJ suggests separating technical from non-technical courses; adding the hours makes each one easier to weigh.

The same content as the files above, so you can copy a line or compare it with your own.

Terms this kind of resume is usually searched for. Use the posting's exact wording, and only for work you have done.

• data analysis
• SQL
• BigQuery
• Power BI
• DAX
• Python (pandas)
• dashboards
• A/B testing
• sales and margin analysis
• retail analytics
• forecasting
• data modelling
• stakeholder reporting
• English (advanced)

• Writing your age instead of your date of birth, which UDESC asks for in the identification block.
• Listing religion, health, skin colour or political views, all on UDESC's list of unnecessary information.
• Opening the header with titles such as MSc or PhD, which UDESC advises against.
• Writing "English: fluent" without saying whether that covers reading, conversation and writing.
• Choosing a template packed with borders and drawings, which Poli UFRJ warns takes space from the content.

We exported this sample with Resumity's PDF exporter in Chrome on 2026-10-29 and read the file back with three open-source text extractors. This shows whether software that turns a PDF into text can recover it; it is not a test of any commercial applicant tracking system. How we test templates.

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We opened every page below on that date. Pay, rules and requirements change, so check the source before you rely on a detail.

1. Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC Joinville), Centro de Ciências Tecnológicas, Coordenadoria de Estágio: Como elaborar um currículo (Name first; identification: date of birth (not age), marital status, number of children (no names or ages), address, phone with DDD, email, availability to travel or relocate; no MsC/PhD titles in the header; nationality only if relevant; objective and summary; education in descending order with course, institution, city, completion and date, secondary only if relevant; other courses; experience with company activity, positions, period, results; languages with level and type (reading, conversation, writing); salary expectation not stated at first, or in the cover letter; references if necessary; at most four pages; impersonal style without "eu"; unnecessary: health, religion, driving licence details, nationality, passport, place of birth, colour, political views, names and ages of children.)
2. Escola Politécnica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escritório de Carreira e Empreendedorismo: Orientação profissional (Choose a template without many borders, margins or drawings that take space; personal information: name, date of birth, address, phone, email; objective with main technical and behavioural competences; education newest first, undergraduates add where they finished high school (especially a technical course); experience newest first with period, place, position and main activities; languages advanced, intermediate or basic, no diploma needed for each; courses (technical and non-technical separated), talks, publications; complementary information; some companies ask for references, check they are authorised.)
3. Universidade Federal de Goiás (Cegraf UFG), 2023: Como elaborar um bom currículo: estratégias para a elaboração de seu currículo (A different objective for each vacancy; avoid spelling mistakes, extravagant fonts and unprofessional photos; there is an advantage in including a photo (smiling, plain white or light background, shoulders up, formal clothes where the job requires them), ideally 3x4 cm; avoid borders, floral elements, shadows and excess colour; model CV includes date of birth.)