Resume template for China: a one-page jianli that leads with work

Catalyst prints no summary and starts with the most recent job, so a manager's results are the first thing read, in line with the Shanghai bureau's advice to skip a long, empty self-introduction. Its single teal accent stays well inside the two-colour limit in Birmingham's guide, and IBM Plex Sans keeps the page plain.

Second choice: Henrietta. Henrietta adds a short profile at the top and puts education straight after the jobs, for applicants who want the personal profile Birmingham's guide calls crucial.

Catalyst template details and test results

Catalyst 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. Work Experience. Newest first, with company, title and dates. The Shanghai bureau asks you to introduce a company the reader may not know in a sentence or two, as the sample's first bullet does, to start each line with a verb such as led or launched, and to back every claim with numbers.
2. Skills. Group operations methods, software and languages. The national graduate jobs platform (ncss.cn) separates job-specific skills from general workplace skills such as spreadsheet and presentation work; list both, and give Mandarin, any dialect and English with a level.
3. Education. Highest degree with school, major and start and end dates. The Shanghai bureau says recent graduates with good results can add GPA and class ranking; Birmingham adds that a well-ranked university is worth naming with its ranking for Chinese employers.
4. Certifications. Certificates that prove a skill, in their own section. Birmingham lists them separately from awards; Catalyst prints them after education, so a certificate the advertisement demands should also appear in the first job's bullets.
5. Awards. An awards list. Birmingham's Chinese CV guide gives awards and achievements from your studies or past jobs a section of their own. Keep each to one line with the year, and pick ones a hiring manager in your field would recognise.

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.

• cross-border e-commerce
• marketplace operations
• product listings
• keyword advertising
• advertising cost of sales
• inventory replenishment
• overseas warehouse
• sales analysis
• customer service
• team management
• Excel
• Power BI
• CSCP
• English

• A template downloaded from a job site with its watermark still on it, one of the faults the Shanghai bureau sees at job fairs.
• Printing your ID card number; the Shanghai bureau says birth year and month already show your age.
• Describing the duties every person in the post would share; ncss.cn asks for your own tasks and the numbers behind them.
• Bold or italics on half the lines, which ncss.cn says spoils the layout and hides what matters.
• Self-praise with nothing behind it; Birmingham says modesty is expected and facts should speak for themselves.

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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1. National University Student Employment Service Platform (ncss.cn), Ministry of Education; article from Shanghai Human Resources and Social Security: What should a good CV contain? (2022-12-07) (Four parts, ideally on one A4 page: basic information (name, gender, birth year and month, household registration, residence by district or street, years of work, political status, contact; no ID number needed); work, project or internship experience newest first with company, post and dates, a sentence introducing lesser-known companies, verb-led duties and quantified results; education with school, major and dates, GPA and ranking for strong recent graduates; skills and certificates, no long empty self-introduction. Faults seen: job-site templates with watermarks, three pages for a junior post, casual head shots, typos.)
2. National University Student Employment Service Platform (ncss.cn), Ministry of Education: What should you watch out for when writing a CV? (2022-09-16) (Clear modules; SimSun or Microsoft YaHei, 1.5 line spacing; no typos; an unsuitable photo can become a reason to reject; correct contact details; describe specific tasks and quantified results rather than generic duties; separate job-specific and general skills; adjust the CV for each post; avoid over-using bold and italics.)
3. University of Birmingham, Careers Network: Quick guide to tailoring your CV for the Chinese labour market (Modest style, avoid bragging; two-page CVs usually welcome, one typically enough unless 10+ years' experience; personal information: name, gender, date of birth, recent professional photo, highest qualification, phone with international code and email; English and Chinese names for multinational jobs; education and work in reverse chronological order; awards and qualifications sections; personal profile can be crucial and often sits at the end; a Chinese-language CV as well for Mandarin speakers, two pages per language; at most two colours; font size 10 or above.)