Resume template for Ukraine: the Ukrainian resume, step by step

Daniel prints the job title right under your name, the spot where the Kyiv City Employment Centre suggests naming the vacancy, and sets skills before experience in a three-column grid. Its rounded grey heading pills give the page the softer look Resumity suggests for product managers and designers, without adding colour.

Second choice: Meridian. Meridian keeps the same order with labelled skill rows and no colour, a quieter choice for engineering, banking or public-sector employers.

Daniel template details and test results

Daniel 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. Two or three sentences: the products you deliver, team size, clients and working languages. The Kyiv centre says that when you apply for a specific job, the title of that vacancy replaces a general objective, so the headline does that work and the profile can go straight to evidence.
2. Skills. The Kyiv centre asks for a level next to each foreign language and stresses soft skills as well as computer skills; Lviv Polytechnic's rules add that one of the listed languages should be your native one. Daniel prints the groups as unlabelled columns, so keep all the languages in the third.
3. Work Experience. Both Ukrainian sources ask for reverse chronological order: dates, company, position and duties, newest job first. Lviv Polytechnic recommends verbs that prove the work ("managed", "controlled", "developed") and says reasons for leaving stay off the page; prepare that answer for the interview.
4. Education. Lviv Polytechnic lists higher education in reverse order without secondary school, with the specialty and degree level. The Kyiv centre adds that the longer ago you graduated, the less space this section should take, so a single line is enough here.
5. Certifications. A delivery certificate prints near the bottom of the page. If a client or employer names it in the vacancy, mention it in the profile too, where it is read early.
6. Activities. Lviv Polytechnic's rules include an activities section for memberships and work outside the job that shows initiative and teamwork, while the Kyiv centre says hobbies belong only if they relate to the job. Mentoring and meetup talks meet both conditions.

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.

• IT project management
• delivery management
• Scrum
• Kanban
• sprint planning
• risk management
• budget tracking
• stakeholder communication
• estimation
• Jira
• Confluence
• distributed teams
• Ukrainian
• English
• Polish

• Writing "no work experience" as a graduate. The Kyiv centre says internships count and you should list achievements, such as a thesis project, instead.
• One general resume for every vacancy, when the Kyiv centre recommends two or three focused versions.
• Explaining why you left each job; Lviv Polytechnic keeps reasons for leaving off the page.
• Hobbies unrelated to the work, which the Kyiv centre advises leaving out.
• Going past two pages, the limit the Kyiv City Employment Centre sets.

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. Kyiv City Employment Centre (State Employment Service of Ukraine): Київська служба зайнятості надала поради, як написати резюме для пошуку роботи (8 December 2021) (No more than two pages; a three-quarter-view photo with a slight smile, in business clothes; personal data: surname, first name and patronymic, address, phone, email; for a specific vacancy write its title instead of an objective; work experience in reverse chronological order; education takes less space the longer ago you graduated; foreign languages with a level; computer and soft skills; graduates should not state a lack of experience but list achievements such as a thesis project; two or three focused versions are better than one general resume; hobbies only if related to the job.)
2. Lviv Polytechnic National University: Резюме-правила (Resume rules) (File created in 2016. Name and a scanned photo; address; objective; education in reverse order excluding secondary school; work experience in reverse chronological order with dates, company, position and duties, using verbs such as "managed", "developed"; skills including computer use and driving licence; languages with level, one native; activities and memberships; personal data: date of birth, marital status; interests only if job-related; "references available on request" only if you have them, agreed in advance; do not write "Резюме" at the top; drop empty sections; reasons for leaving are not stated.)