Resume template for Estonia: an Estonian CV that opens on your work

Catalyst prints no summary and goes from the header straight to work experience, which is where Work in Estonia says an Estonian CV should begin. Its labelled skill rows give languages a row of their own, and the teal headings over full-width rules keep a dense technical page easy to scan.

Second choice: Henrietta. Henrietta adds a summary and prints education straight after the jobs, closer to the education-first outline EURES gives, which helps a recent graduate.

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. Work in Estonia tells applicants to adjust the CV for each job and draw attention to the skills the employer stressed in its offer. If the posting asks for Playwright and accessibility testing, those words belong in the first two bullets of your current role, with a number attached.
2. Skills. Work in Estonia names language skills among the four things every CV should carry, and warns against being too generous with the truth about them. Give Estonian, English and Russian a CEFR level each. EURES notes that civil service posts require Estonian to the extent the law sets.
3. Education. EURES lists education first in its outline of an Estonian CV, but Catalyst always prints it after skills. For an engineer with eight years of work that is the better order; a graduate would choose Henrietta instead. One detail line, here the thesis topic, is enough.
4. Certifications. A testing certificate prints near the bottom of the page. If the advertisement lists it as a requirement, also name it in the first bullet of your current job, because Catalyst has no summary to carry it.
5. Continuing training. EURES gives continuing vocational training a section of its own, separate from education. List each course with its length and year; short courses taken while working show the reader that your skills are current.

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.

• test automation
• QA engineering
• Playwright
• Selenium
• API testing
• Postman
• TypeScript
• GitLab CI
• regression testing
• accessibility testing
• test strategy
• ISTQB
• Estonian
• English
• Russian

• Rounding a B1 language up to "fluent". Work in Estonia asks for clear language levels and warns against stretching them.
• A salary expectation the advertisement never asked for; EURES says to give one only on request.
• A third page. EURES and Work in Estonia both set two pages as the ceiling.
• One unchanged CV for every vacancy, when Work in Estonia says to adjust it to the skills each employer emphasised.

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. EURES (European Labour Authority): Living and working conditions: Estonia (Applying for a job) (CVs are A4 in a common font at 10 to 12 points and no longer than two A4 pages; a photograph is not compulsory (passport-style or portrait, usually upper right corner); personal details are name, address, phone and email; sections listed: education, continuing vocational training, work experience, language skills, other skills, hobbies; references are not obligatory but may increase chances; desired salary only if asked; larger companies may have their own format; civil service requires Estonian to the extent provided by law; motivation letter no longer than one A4 page.)
2. Work in Estonia (Estonian Business and Innovation Agency): How to get a job in Estonia: tips and tricks (Think of the CV as a single page and never more than two; start with work experience; always include name, email, education and language skills; adjust the CV to the skills each employer emphasised; specify language abilities clearly without exaggerating; cover letter of about ten sentences explaining your interest in Estonia and any prior connection.)