Every country judges a resume differently — a German CV wants a photo, a US resume must not have one, and an Australian resume is expected to be long. Pick your target country for the full guide: page count, photo rules, section order and the mistakes that sink applications.
1 page — 2 only past ~10 years · Never
1–2 pages; 2 is completely normal · No — remove it
1–2 pages, two is normal · Customary — a professional Bewerbungsfoto
1–2 pages · Expected on a Persian resume
2 pages — "two sides of A4" · No
2–4 pages — length is expected · No
1–2 pages, 2 is the ceiling · Optional — genuinely your call
The three questions everyone asks first, side by side.
| Country | Length | Photo | Language | Dates | File format | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸United States | 1 page — 2 only past ~10 years | Never | US English, US spelling | Mon YYYY — Jan 2023 – Mar 2025 | PDF, US Letter, single column | Left off entirely |
| 🇨🇦Canada | 1–2 pages; 2 is completely normal | No — remove it | English — French in Quebec | Month Year — Jan 2023 – Mar 2025 | PDF, Letter size, plainly named | "Available upon request" |
| 🇩🇪Germany | 1–2 pages, two is normal | Customary — a professional Bewerbungsfoto | Match the job ad | MM/YYYY – MM/YYYY | One merged PDF, A4 | Not listed — you attach Arbeitszeugnisse |
| 🇮🇷Iran | 1–2 pages | Expected on a Persian resume | Persian at home, English for outside | Jalali at home, Gregorian abroad | PDF — always, for Persian text | Listed in full, with contact details |
| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | 2 pages — "two sides of A4" | No | British English throughout | Mon YYYY, DD/MM/YYYY elsewhere | PDF or DOCX, A4 | "Available on request" or omitted |
| 🇦🇺Australia | 2–4 pages — length is expected | No | Australian English | Mon YYYY; DD/MM/YYYY elsewhere | PDF or DOCX, A4 | Two referees, listed in full |
| 🇳🇱Netherlands | 1–2 pages, 2 is the ceiling | Optional — genuinely your call | English is widely accepted | MM/YYYY or Mon YYYY | PDF, A4 | Left off the CV |
Because employment law and hiring convention change, not because designers disagree. A photo is still customary on a German CV, while US anti-discrimination practice has all but removed it — send a US resume with a photo and it may never be read. Page count, section order, date of birth and references are defined country by country in the same way. One resume for every market means a wrong resume in most of them.
The destination country's, not your own. A German employer reads your CV against German expectations, and their screening software is tuned to the same thing. Open that country's guide and build to its rules from the start; translating a Persian resume into English does not fix its format.
You need a separate version per country. The underlying content — experience, skills, education — stays the same; what changes is the personal fields, the length and the section order. In Resumito you switch the target country and those adjust automatically, so you are not rewriting from scratch.
It depends on the posting, and the table above gives each country's default. The general rule: if the job ad is written in the local language, so is your resume. For Germany and the Netherlands international firms usually accept English while local employers do not; for the US, Canada, the UK and Australia, English is always right.