Built for the Canadian job market, and for it alone
The Canadian resume has rules.
We know them.
Your resume and your cover letter, written in the format Canadian recruiters expect. Building and downloading are 100% free.
Resume + letter
the two documents expected
FR & EN
one click, not a translation
No photo
as the law requires
100% free
building and PDF download
No watermark
a PDF ready to send to the recruiter
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resumes and letters generated since 2025
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ATS compliance on finalized resumes
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Writing rules aligned with the Government of Canada's Job Bank, Alberta's alis templates, and GC Jobs' merit criteria.
What gets a resume rejected in Canada
Four habits brought from elsewhere are enough to rule out a candidacy. The form corrects them before you even have to think about it.
Rejected outright
- A photo, an age, a marital status
- Three pages of responsibilities
- Two columns, icons, a table
- A degree nobody can place
Kept for interview
- Contact info, skills, results
- Two pages, the last ten years
- One column, readable by ATS
- WES, IQAS, CES, or ICAS equivalency
The interview is won on page 1
Six seconds of reading, on average, before the sort.
The second document, included
In Canada, the resume travels with its letter
Most job postings ask for a cover letter. Without one, the application is often set aside before the resume is even read. The generator writes it from your resume's data and the job posting you're targeting.
- 01One page, three paragraphs: the expected format, never two pages
- 02Addressed to the right recipient, with the exact job title
- 03The posting's keywords carried over, without copying the resume
- 04Header, font, and paper identical to your resume, for one cohesive set
CV Check: the compliance analysis
A program reads your resume before a human does.
Upload your current resume: you get a compliance score, errors ranked by severity, and a suggested fix for each one.
Compliance score
Current resume · 2 pages · French
0/100
- Photo detected: remove it, grounds for immediate rejection
- Two-column layout: unreadable by ATS
- No quantified results: 7 bullets to rephrase
- Length compliant: two pages
Why CV Canadien
Built for the Canadian job market
Meets Canadian standards
Templates aligned with Job Bank: no photo, no age, in the format recruiters expect.
Built-in AI assistant
Draft your summary and achievements with AI help, never inventing a skill you don't have.
Bilingual in one click
Switch from French to English instantly, not a rough machine translation.
ATS check
CV Check scans your document and flags whatever would trip up a screening tool before an interview.
Free download
Your resume and letter as PDFs, watermark-free, as many times as you need.
No subscription
No credit card needed to build your resume. Only the premium analyses are paid, one at a time.
Explore our tools
Everything you need for a complete application
From resume to cover letter, every tool guides you step by step.
Built for your search
A tool built for the Canadian market,
whatever your field
Whether you're targeting a job in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, or anywhere else in the country, every step follows what Canadian recruiters expect.
- Guided form, one question at a time: no writing experience required
- Meets Canadian standards: no photo, no age, the format recruiters expect
- Free from building to PDF download
They landed the interview
Three paths, three provinces, three different resume formats.
“I'd sent thirty resumes from Abidjan without a single reply. The problem wasn't my experience: it was my photo and my three pages. Two weeks after redoing my resume here, I had two interviews.”
Souleymane D.
Site coordinator · Calgary
“The federal public service template made me understand what GC Jobs actually expected. One block per merit criterion, in the STAR method. I was shortlisted for the next process.”
Élodie L.
Policy analyst · Gatineau
“Paying by Mobile Money changed everything: I don't have an international card. I had my resume and cover letter before I even got my visa.”
Amina T.
Financial analyst · Montreal
Free
Your resume, free from start to finish
Building, writing with the AI assistant, switching templates, translating, downloading: everything you need to apply in Canada is free, with no subscription and no credit card.
- Guided resume builder
- Five Canadian templates
- AI writing assistant
- Cover letter
- French and English versions
- Unlimited PDF downloads
Premium services, pay as you go
To go further, two in-depth analyses are available one at a time, with no subscription: you only pay for the analysis you run.
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Frequently asked questions
A question that isn't here? Write to us. We answer in French and in English.
contact@cv-canadien.comIs my foreign degree recognized?
The resume names the equivalency body (WES, IQAS, CES, or ICAS) and your degree's Canadian name. That's the phrasing recruiters know how to read.
Is building the resume really free?
Yes. Building, previewing, switching templates and downloading the PDF of your resume and cover letter are free, with no limit. Only CV Check and tailoring your resume to a job posting are paid, one at a time.
Will my resume pass automated screening?
The templates are single-column, with no table, selectable text and small pictograms for address, phone and email (none on the public-service template): exactly what applicant tracking systems require.
What about the federal public service?
A dedicated template demonstrates each merit criterion in the STAR method, with security clearance and language profile in the header, as GC Jobs expects.
How do I pay for CV Check or a job posting adaptation?
By credit card, Mobile Money or PayPal, with no subscription or automatic billing. Each analysis costs CA$2 / 1 000 FCFA.
Your next application
The job exists. It's missing the right resume.
Build it, check its compliance, download it: it's free from start to finish.
Three steps, ten minutes
No writing experience required. Everything is free, from the first question to the final PDF.
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You answer
+−Target job
Data analyst
A guided form, question by question. The assistant suggests the phrasing expected in Canada and the posting's keywords.
2
We write it
+−Head of the analytics team
Led 4 junior analysts, all confirmed within the year
Every task becomes a quantified result: exactly what the Job Bank recommends, and what recruiters read.
3
You download
+−Data_Analyst_Resume.pdf
184 kb
Your resume as a PDF, watermark-free and at no cost. Download it as often as you edit it.