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Use cases

Use cases

One editor. Many career moments.

The same six templates and the same exports serve a first résumé, a change of field or a senior profile. What changes is what you put in each section: here is how to use the editor in each case.

Students & new grads

A first résumé, without a previous one to copy.

A degree, two projects and a summer job are experience. The editor helps you present them as such, on one page.

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Start from the template step.

Classic or Minimal keep a short résumé readable; the preview shows at once when a page is too empty or too full.

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Projects and coursework are entries.

Add a project as an experience entry: a title, a date, two bullets on what you built and what it produced.

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Keep it to one page.

Skills at the end, one line each; start each bullet with an action verb and a result.

Hayden Park
New Grad Software Engineer
Pittsburgh / github.com/haydenpark
Summary
New Grad Software Engineer
Entry-level software role when internships are limited but projects are strong
New Grad Software Engineer targeting entry-level software role when internships are limited but projects are strong, with the resume shaped around scope, outcomes, and hiring context.
Combines TypeScript, Python, Postgres with proof points that match entry level hiring expectations.
Projects & internships
SWE Intern
Summer 2024
TransitFlow
Built review harness that removed 18 hours per week of manual QA.
Added alerting for delayed route imports across 14 city feeds.
Presented work to peers and mentors, incorporating feedback into the final deliverable.
Used structured documentation so project scope, assumptions, and outcomes were easy to review.
Course project
2024
Distributed systems
Implemented replicated key-value store with leader election and fault injection tests.
Presented work to peers and mentors, incorporating feedback into the final deliverable.
Projects
Portfolio projects
2025
Academic and independent work
Built two role-focused projects with a written brief, data source or user problem, implementation notes, and final outcomes.
Prepared a concise portfolio README explaining decisions, constraints, testing, and next improvements.
Education
B.S. Information Systems
2021 - 2025
North Carolina State University
Coursework in databases, statistics, product development, web systems, and business analytics.
Campus leadership: planned project milestones, presented findings, and coordinated peer review.
Keywords
TypeScriptPythonPostgresReactTestingSystems
Example from the library, fictional person
New Grad Software Engineer
Entry-level software role when internships are limited but projects are strong
  • Lead with shipped projects and measurable users or tests.
  • Put education after the strongest technical proof if projects carry the story.
  • Use specific languages, frameworks, and constraints.
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Career switchers

Translate years of experience into a new vocabulary.

Ten years of teaching, nursing or consulting are real work. The résumé only needs to speak the language of the field you are joining.

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Lead with the summary.

Two sentences under your name that state the field you are joining and what you bring from the previous one.

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Translate without overstating.

Name the skill as the new field calls it, and keep the fact behind it: what you did, for whom, with what result.

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Reorder freely.

Move the most relevant experience up by drag and drop, or with the arrow keys from the handle.

Mei Karimi
Product Manager, Learning Tools
Austin / mei.karimi.so
Summary
Product Manager, Learning Tools
Career switch from education, support, or operations into product
Product Manager, Learning Tools targeting career switch from education, support, or operations into product, with the resume shaped around scope, outcomes, and hiring context.
Combines User research, Curriculum, Figma with proof points that match career switch hiring expectations.
Relevant experience
Lead Teacher
2018 - 2024
Riverview Middle
Designed competency-based math program used by 4 schools and 1,200 students.
Built gradebook workflow adopted district-wide by 37 teachers.
Converted domain knowledge into clearer processes, reporting, and stakeholder communication.
Built recent hands-on proof through coursework, portfolio work, and feedback from practitioners.
PM Apprenticeship
2024
ProductCamp
Shipped teacher dashboard prototype after 14 user interviews and 3 usability rounds.
Converted domain knowledge into clearer processes, reporting, and stakeholder communication.
Transition projects
Role-focused portfolio
2024
Independent work
Completed practical project mirroring the target role, with clear problem framing, process, output, and lessons learned.
Translated prior experience into transferable strengths: stakeholder management, operations, analysis, and communication.
Education
Professional certificate
2024
Continuing education
Completed a role-specific program with portfolio assignments, peer review, and practical case work.
Built a transition portfolio connecting prior domain expertise to current tools and hiring expectations.
Keywords
User researchCurriculumFigmaSQL basicsRoadmappingStakeholders
Example from the library, fictional person
Product Manager, Learning Tools
Career switch from education, support, or operations into product
  • Translate old-role wins into user problems, process, and product outcomes.
  • Add recent projects or apprenticeships to prove the new direction.
  • Do not hide the switch; make it the narrative.
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Executives

A document that states scope and results.

At director or VP level, the reader wants the scope you operated and the results you delivered, not a list of tasks.

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A summary with a thesis.

A short opening paragraph on your operating scope: teams, budgets, markets, results.

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Numbers at the right altitude.

Team size, revenue, growth, savings: one figure per bullet, and only those you can defend in an interview.

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The Executive template.

A restrained layout with a strong header and an accent bar, exported as PDF from your browser.

Executive
// The Executive template
  • A strong header with the name and the title
  • A summary paragraph before the experience
  • An accent bar and one figure per bullet
Engineers

Show the impact, not just the stack.

"Used React, Postgres and Kubernetes" says nothing. What you shipped, how it performed and what it cost is what a technical reader looks for.

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Impact before stack.

What you shipped, how it performed, then the tools: keywords stay close to the results they served.

{ }

Keep the JSON export.

The structured file keeps your content for the next version, a backup or your own tooling.

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A compact template.

Minimal or Classic keep a dense résumé readable on one page.

Daniel Chen
Senior Backend Engineer
San Francisco / github.com/dchen
Summary
Senior Backend Engineer
Platform engineer role at a high-traffic SaaS company
Senior Backend Engineer targeting platform engineer role at a high-traffic saas company, with the resume shaped around scope, outcomes, and hiring context.
Combines Go, Postgres, Kafka with proof points that match engineering hiring expectations.
Experience
Senior Backend Engineer
2022 - Now
Mercury Systems
Rebuilt payments worker pool; cut p99 queue time from 8.4s to 1.9s.
Led Postgres partitioning plan for 4.2B ledger rows with zero downtime.
Owned incident reviews; reduced repeat sev-2s by 37%.
Mentored engineers through design reviews, rollout plans, and production-readiness checks.
Software Engineer
2019 - 2022
Northstar Cloud
Migrated billing service from Ruby to Go, lowering infra spend 28%.
Mentored engineers through design reviews, rollout plans, and production-readiness checks.
Projects
Service reliability scorecard
2024
Internal platform
Created service-health dashboard tracking latency, error budget, deployment frequency, and incident follow-up.
Documented runbooks and ownership rules used by engineering, support, and product teams.
Education
B.S. Computer Science
2015 - 2019
University of Washington
Coursework: algorithms, databases, distributed systems, networks, and operating systems.
Capstone: built a fault-tolerant service with automated tests, observability, and deployment scripts.
Keywords
GoPostgresKafkaKubernetesSLOsDistributed systems
Example from the library, fictional person
Senior Backend Engineer
Platform engineer role at a high-traffic SaaS company
  • Lead with latency, uptime, cost, and migration numbers.
  • Name the systems you owned end to end.
  • Keep stack keywords close to the impact bullets.
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International

Apply across borders, in the right language.

A résumé for Montréal, Madrid or London follows different conventions. The editor sets the language of the document independently of the interface.

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Choose the résumé language.

Eight variants: English (United States, United Kingdom), French (France, Canada), German, Spanish (Spain, Mexico) and Italian, each with its section titles and date formats.

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One profile, several markets.

Save one résumé per market in your account: each one keeps its own language and wording.

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Conventions differ.

Length, personal details and photos vary by country; the templates stay sober so that you decide what to include.

// Eight résumé variants
EN-US
English (United States)
Résumé · month day, year
EN-GB
English (United Kingdom)
CV · day month year
FR-FR
Français (France)
CV · day month year, in French
FR-CA
Français (Canada)
CV · Quebec conventions
DE-DE
Deutsch (Deutschland)
Lebenslauf · day month year, in German
ES-ES
Español (España)
Currículum · day month year, in Spanish
ES-MX
Español (México)
Currículum · Mexican conventions
IT-IT
Italiano (Italia)
Curriculum · day month year, in Italian
Interface in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian
Career coaches

Stop reformatting in a word processor.

If you coach candidates or run a career service, BeauCV gives each of them a clean résumé on the same templates. Free for you, free for them.

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One link to share.

Send candidates to BeauCV: no account is needed to start, and every template and export is included.

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Consistent output.

Every résumé follows the same typographic system, so your reviews go faster.

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Examples to point to.

The example library shows the structure expected for each job family, in five languages.

// What every candidate gets
Six templates and a curated palette
PDF, Word and JSON exports
No account needed to start
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Whoever you are. Whatever you've done.

Choose a template, write what you did, export a clean document.