CV Formatting and Design Best Practices
Ma Hnin Ei applies for an admin coordinator role at a Yangon-based FMCG distributor offering 450,000 MMK per month. She has the right experience -- two years at a local trading company, decent English, strong Excel skills. She spends three hours making her CV look impressive: colored headers, a photo with a fancy border, two-column layout, decorative icons next to each section. She submits it as a Word document. The HR assistant downloads it on an older laptop running Windows 7. The columns collapse. The icons turn into empty boxes. The colored headers become unreadable. Her CV is skipped in under four seconds. The person who gets the interview has a simpler CV with half of Ma Hnin Ei's experience. The difference was not talent. It was formatting.
Ma Hnin Ei applies for an admin coordinator role at a Yangon-based FMCG distributor offering 450,000 MMK per month. She has the right experience -- two years at a local trading company, decent English, strong Excel skills. She spends three hours making her CV look impressive: colored headers, a photo with a fancy border, two-column layout, decorative icons next to each section. She submits it as a Word document. The HR assistant downloads it on an older laptop running Windows 7. The columns collapse. The icons turn into empty boxes. The colored headers become unreadable. Her CV is skipped in under four seconds. The person who gets the interview has a simpler CV with half of Ma Hnin Ei's experience. The difference was not talent. It was formatting.
Your CV's job is not to look impressive -- it is to make your strongest qualifications impossible to miss in six seconds. Clean, single-column, PDF, plain font. Every formatting choice that does not serve readability is a choice that works against you.
Select the correct font, size, and layout that works across ATS software and Myanmar devices
Format and save a CV as a properly named PDF file
Identify and avoid common Myanmar CV template mistakes that cause applications to be rejected or unread
Your CV's job is not to look impressive -- it is to make your strongest qualifications impossible to miss in six seconds. Clean, single-column, PDF, plain font. Every formatting choice that does not serve readability is a choice that works against you.
Select the correct font, size, and layout that works across ATS software and Myanmar devices
Format and save a CV as a properly named PDF file
Identify and avoid common Myanmar CV template mistakes that cause applications to be rejected or unread
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