CV template for France (French CV format)

Catalyst prints no summary and opens on work experience, so the headline under your name does the work of the French CV title, and experience above education matches the Franche-Comté guide's advice for anyone with more than three years of combined experience.

Second choice: Leslie. Leslie adds a summary under the header and keeps experience before skills; pick it if you want two lines about your goal under the title.

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. Most recent first, each with the date, duration, position, company, place and duties, in the same order every time, as the Franche-Comté guide sets out. It suggests three key skills per job, written with action verbs and backed by numbers.
2. Skills. For languages, EURES says to give your mother tongue and, for French, your reading, writing and speaking levels. List software after that, and nothing you cannot use: the guide warns against mentioning what you do not master.
3. Education. Reverse chronological, with the year the diploma was awarded, its full title without acronyms, the institution and the city. EURES adds that a diploma from abroad should come with its equivalent in the French system.
4. Interests. The Franche-Comté guide treats interests (centres d'intérêt) as a real section: sport, culture, volunteering or civic activity, each with your level or how long you have practised it. EURES suggests mentioning time you have already spent in France.

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.

• supply planning
• approvisionnement
• demand planning
• MRP
• S&OP
• stock management
• days of cover
• supplier relations
• SAP MM
• Excel
• food industry
• French (native)
• English (C1)

• Heading the page "Curriculum Vitae" instead of a job title, which the Franche-Comté guide says not to do.
• Running to two pages with six years of experience when one would hold it.
• Adding your social security number; the CNIL lists it among details a recruiter should not normally ask for.
• Listing interests as single words. The guide asks for the activity and your level or length of practice.

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. Université de Franche-Comté (now Université Marie et Louis Pasteur), service Orientation Stage Emploi: Rédiger un CV (The CV must fit on one page; a title is essential and the page should not be headed "Curriculum Vitae"; name, address, phone and email are essential, age, family situation and nationality optional; photo optional; education in reverse chronological order; experience before education after more than 3 years; interests with level of practice; permis B can interest an employer.)
2. EURES (European Commission and the public employment services): Living and working conditions: France (A CV should be no more than two pages; telephone number with the international dialling code; marital status, age and nationality (EEA) optional; give your mother tongue and your French reading, writing and speaking levels; give diploma equivalents in the French system.)
3. Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL): Recrutement : quelles informations peut-on me demander ? (An employer should ask only for information that helps judge the candidate's ability for the job; unless in particular cases, social security number, family circle, health, height, weight, bank details, nationality of origin and similar items should not be requested.)