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CV format quick-check

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This one is a wildcat. Fiddly, and easy to get wrong. Nothing bad happens if you do — you just have to fix it. Get it right once and you never think about it again.

CV format quick-check

A German recruiter reads a Lebenslauf in a particular shape, and one in the wrong shape gets set aside before anybody reads what you have done. Paste yours in or upload it, and this checks it against the documented conventions, with a source on every point. It checks the format and nothing else. It will not rewrite your CV, and it will not guess how a recruiter will feel about it.

Have your CV as a file? Drop it in.

PDF, DOCX or TXT. Drop the file in and its text goes straight into the check, with no retyping and no copy-paste.

Your file is read here in your browser and never uploaded. Only the plain text is sent for the check, exactly as if you had pasted it.

How this works

A small AI model reads your CV and spots which conventions are already there. The check then compares that against a list of documented German Lebenslauf conventions. Every point is marked worth fixing or worth considering, and links to an official source. Your CV is used to run the check and is not stored.

Rules last verified: 2026-07-08.

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