Resume template · Updated October 2026
CV template for Bulgaria (Bulgarian CV format)
Short answer
Olivia suits a Bulgarian CV for a client-facing role: a blue header band, a short profile, skills, then experience and education, all on the single A4 page Sofia University's career development team advises. Sources split on Europass: EURES recommends it, while recruiters quoted by the American University in Bulgaria called it outdated. The fictional sample is a customer success team lead in Sofia who works in three languages.
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Why Olivia suits a Bulgaria resume
Olivia prints a full-width blue header band with the name in white, so the page stands out on screen in an inbox or at a career fair, which suits a customer-facing team lead. Skills print straight after the profile, putting the three working languages near the top of a one-page CV.
Second choice: Daniel. Daniel keeps the same section order with grey heading pills and no colour band, a quieter choice for a single A4 page.
What goes in each section, in Olivia's order
Olivia 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.
- Professional Summary. Two sentences: role, sector, working languages and the size of the team or account book you handle. With the whole CV held to one A4 page, a third sentence costs a bullet further down.
- Skills. Sofia University's slides list languages under skills; give each one a level, then the CRM and support tools. For a multilingual role, put the languages the advert names first.
- Work Experience. Employer, position and responsibilities, the three items Sofia University's career team lists, with the newest job first, as AUBG's recruiters asked. Three bullets per role keeps the page to one sheet.
- Education. Period, institution, degree and subject: Sofia University's list for this section. One line per degree is enough once you have a few years of work.
- Volunteering. Sofia University marks projects, volunteering and references as optional extras. On a one-page CV pick the one that adds most; the sample keeps a single volunteering line that shows coaching outside work.
The sample resume as text
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Elena Dimitrova
Customer Success Team Lead, SaaS (German and English)
Sofia | elena.dimitrova@example.com | +359 2 555 0193 | linkedin.com/in/sample-elena-dimitrova
Customer success team lead with seven years supporting German-speaking business clients of SaaS products from Sofia. Leads a team of eight and works daily in Bulgarian, German and English.
Experience
Customer Success Team Lead, Vitosha Cloud Services EOOD, Sofia (03/2023 to Present)
- Lead eight customer success managers looking after 240 business accounts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- Introduced quarterly account reviews that lifted the gross renewal rate from 86% to 92% in a year.
- Own escalations for the 30 largest accounts and agree fixes with product and engineering leads.
Customer Success Manager, Serdika Travel Systems AD, Sofia (06/2019 to 02/2023)
- Onboarded about 60 hotel groups a year to a booking platform, in German and English.
- Wrote 45 German help centre articles that cut onboarding tickets by a quarter.
- Kept first-response times within the contract SLA for four years running.
Volunteering
- Interview coach in a Sofia programme that helps school leavers prepare for their first job interviews, since 2022
Education
Bachelor's degree, German Philology and Business Communication, Balkan University of Languages and Economics (07/2019)
Skills
Customer onboarding, Renewals and churn reduction, Escalation management, Team coaching, Salesforce Service Cloud, Zendesk, Gainsight, Excel, Bulgarian (native), German (C1), English (C1)
How to make the sample yours
Stay on one A4 page
Sofia University's career development team says a CV should be short, one A4 page, and AUBG's recruiters also asked for a single page. Cut older bullets before shrinking the type.
Settle the Europass question per advert
EURES recommends the European CV format on Europass; recruiters at AUBG's Job and Internship Fair told students to ditch it as outdated. When an employer asks for Europass, fill in that form; otherwise a clean one-page CV like this one does the job.
Give your city, not your street
Sofia University's list of personal information is name, phone, email, LinkedIn and the city where you live and are looking for work. Nothing else needs to sit in the header.
Photo: professional or none
AUBG's recruiters suggested considering a professional photo to help them remember you; Sofia University and EURES do not mention photos. Resumity templates print none; insert one in Word in the DOCX file if you decide to.
Prepare translated, authenticated documents
EURES says employers often ask for more documents after the first round and that it helps to have translated and authenticated papers on your education, qualifications, experience and references from former employers ready.
Keywords to keep where they are true
Terms this kind of resume is usually searched for. Use the posting's exact wording, and only for work you have done.
- customer success
- customer onboarding
- renewals
- churn reduction
- account reviews
- escalation management
- SLA management
- Salesforce Service Cloud
- Zendesk
- Gainsight
- team leadership
- SaaS
- German (C1)
- English (C1)
Mistakes to avoid
- Running onto a second page when Sofia University's career team advises one A4 page.
- Printing a full street address and birth date when Sofia University's list asks only for the city where you live and want to work.
- Reaching the second round without translated and authenticated copies of diplomas and references, which EURES says employers often request.
- Listing working languages without a level, so the reader cannot tell fluent German from school German.
How the sample PDF reads in text extractors
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.
| Extractor | Name, email, phone | Headings | Bullets intact |
|---|---|---|---|
| pdf.js 4.10.38 | All found | 5 of 5 | 6 of 6 |
| pdftotext (Xpdf) 4.00 | All found | 5 of 5 | 6 of 6 |
| pypdf 6.13.0 | All found | 5 of 5 | 6 of 6 |
Frequently asked questions
How long should a CV be in Bulgaria?
One A4 page, according to Sofia University's career development team. Recruiters quoted by the American University in Bulgaria also asked for a single page.
Should I use the Europass CV in Bulgaria?
Sources disagree. EURES recommends the European CV format on Europass, while recruiters at an AUBG job fair called it outdated. Use Europass when an advert asks for it; otherwise a clear one-page CV is fine.
What personal details go on a Bulgarian CV?
Sofia University lists name, phone, email, LinkedIn and the city where you live and are looking for work. Its list does not include a date of birth.
Do Bulgarian employers want a photo on a CV?
AUBG's recruiters suggested considering a professional photo; Sofia University and EURES say nothing about photos. Resumity templates print no photo; you can add one in Word to the DOCX file.
What documents might a Bulgarian employer ask for after the CV?
EURES says employers often ask for more after the CV and cover letter, and suggests having translated and authenticated documents on education, qualifications, experience and references from former employers.
Will applicant tracking systems read this Olivia PDF?
The sample PDF read back with its contact details, all 5 section headings and all 6 bullets intact in three open-source text extractors (pdf.js, pdftotext and pypdf). Commercial systems such as Workday, Greenhouse or Taleo were not tested, and each employer configures its own.
Guides and templates for this resume
Sources, checked 29 October 2026
We opened every page below on that date. Pay, rules and requirements change, so check the source before you rely on a detail.
- EURES (European Commission and the public employment services): Living and working conditions: Bulgaria (The European CV format on the Europass website is recommended; employers usually ask for a brief cover letter; after the first documents are approved employers often ask for more, so have translated and authenticated documents on education, qualifications, experience and references from previous employers.)
- Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Career Development sector: 2026 БФ подготовка за кариерен форум (Faculty of Biology: preparing for the career forum) (Contents of the CV (автобиография): personal information (name, phone, email, LinkedIn, city where you live and look for work); experience (employer, position, responsibilities); education (period, institution, degree, subject); skills (languages and others); optional extras: projects, volunteering, references; tip: the CV should be short, one A4 page.)
- American University in Bulgaria, AUBG Today: Master Your CV with Insights from the AUBG Job and Internship Fair (Recruiter advice gathered at the university's 2024 job fair: ditch the outdated Europass format; keep the CV to a single page; consider a professional photo; arrange experience in reverse chronological order.)
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