Resume template for Latvia: a Latvian CV within two pages

Leslie prints work experience straight after the profile and ahead of skills, so team size and service results are read first, and its labelled skill rows give languages a line of their own. The centred blue header is a single touch of colour, enough for a customer-facing role without turning the CV into a brochure.

Second choice: Henrietta. Henrietta shows skills in three unlabelled columns, a natural fit for the technical, organisational and communication groups RTU suggests, and prints education right after the jobs.

Leslie template details and test results

Leslie 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. RTU's workbook describes the profile as a short account of your skills and experience, reviewed for every vacancy, and says it may mention the workload, start date or pay you are looking for. The sample ends with the kind of role and hours wanted.
2. Work Experience. For each job RTU asks for the years, the employer's full name, your title and your main duties or achievements, and says a job unrelated to the vacancy can be left out. EURES adds a warning: employers must not be misled about your experience, so check every date and title.
3. Skills. RTU suggests showing languages with a Europass-style level for each, or a plain rating such as intermediate or good. EURES says adequate Latvian is needed to find work in Latvia and that it is used in most workplaces, so Latvian comes first in the languages row.
4. Education. Newest first, with the full name of the institution, the programme and the degree, as RTU sets out; if part of your study was abroad, name the country. RTU adds that once you hold a degree, primary and secondary school are not normally listed.
5. References. RTU says a CV may end with a references section giving each person's name, job title, company and phone number, or with one sentence saying references will be provided on request. The sample names one former manager and offers more on request.

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.

• customer service
• contact centre
• team leadership
• quality monitoring
• customer satisfaction
• first contact resolution
• complaint handling
• shift planning
• coaching
• Zendesk
• Salesforce Service Cloud
• Latvian
• Russian
• English
• Swedish

• Stretching a job title or dates. EURES says applicants must not deceive employers about their work experience.
• Printing your flat number and postcode, which RTU suggests leaving off.
• An English CV for an advertisement written in Latvian; RTU's checklist asks for the language of the posting.
• A casual snapshot. If you add a photo, RTU asks for a professional portrait on a light background.

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: Latvia (How to apply for a job) (The CV should not be longer than two pages and describe professional experience, qualifications and skills; applicants must not deceive employers; including a photo is up to you, some employers ask, usually for customer service jobs; adequate Latvian is necessary and is used in all state institutions and most workplaces; cover letters often requested for higher-level positions; CVs usually sent by email or contact by phone; links to model CVs on europass.lv.)
2. Riga Technical University, Career Support and Services Department (RTU Press): No sludinājuma līdz pirmajai darba dienai (From the advertisement to the first working day), 2019 (A businesslike photo can be added (professional portrait on a light background); address with city and street but no flat number or postcode; profile reviewed per vacancy, may mention workload, start date or pay; education newest first with full institution, programme and degree, country if abroad; experience with years, full employer name, title, duties or achievements, unrelated jobs can be omitted; languages via Europass levels or a general rating; references section or "provided on request"; CV in the language of the advertisement, saved as PDF, no longer than 2 pages (1 sheet); Europass suits international companies, internships in Europe and state institutions.)
3. LV portāls (VSIA Latvijas Vēstnesis, official publisher): Dzīves apraksts jeb CV: kā to veidot (2013) (Published 4 July 2013: no legal act in Latvia sets CV requirements; the CV should not exceed two A4 pages; a photo is not mandatory; the personal code need not be shown, a year of birth is enough.)