Why remove my date of birth and marital status for some countries?

Employers in the US, UK, Canada, Ireland and Australia do not need them to shortlist you, and many avoid seeing them to keep hiring fair. Leaving them out keeps the page for your skills. In the Gulf they are still common, so the tool marks them optional there.

Does the tool change British spelling to American automatically?

Only for about a hundred common word pairs such as organise and organize, colour and color, or centre and center. Ambiguous words like program and license are left alone in that direction, and names, web addresses and email addresses are never changed. Always reread the result.

What does applying the changes do to my resume builder draft?

It sets the country and paper size, turns the photo and the nationality, visa and notice line on or off as you ticked, converts the spelling in your text fields and deletes the personal-detail lines you ticked. An undo button restores the previous draft.

Is a CV different from a resume?

In the UK, Ireland, the Gulf and Germany the everyday word is CV; in the US, Canada and India it is resume. For most jobs the document is the same: a short, tailored summary of your experience. Academic CVs are the exception and can run much longer.

Convert Your Resume for the US, UK or Gulf

Free Resume Country Converter

Pick the country you are applying to and see what to change in your resume — paper size, photo, personal details, spelling and length — then apply it in one click. Resumes for the US and Canada are printed on US Letter paper, while the UK, Ireland, India, the UAE, Australia, Singapore and Germany use A4.

What changes when you apply abroad

Paper size — the US and Canada print on US Letter; almost everywhere else uses A4. A PDF in the wrong size prints with odd margins or cut-off lines.
Photo — expected in much of the Gulf, optional in India, Germany and Singapore, and best left off for the US, UK, Canada, Ireland and Australia.
Personal details — date of birth, marital status, religion, a parent’s name and a signed declaration are traditional in some Indian resumes but rarely wanted abroad.
Spelling — American English for the US, British English for the UK, Ireland, Australia, India, the Gulf and Singapore, and a mix in Canada.
Length and name — one page is common in the US for early careers, two in the UK; the document itself is a “CV” in the UK and Ireland.

After converting

Reread every converted line: spelling tools cannot tell a product name from an ordinary word.
Add your right to work or visa status if an employer might otherwise wonder whether you need sponsorship.
Tailor the summary and skills to the job, then download a fresh PDF with the new paper size.

Compare every country side by side in our resume format by country guides, finish the document in the resume builder, match it to a job with tailor resume to job and run a final resume check.

Worked example

An Indian resume converted for Canada

What goes in

From: India resume with photo, date of birth and a declaration To: Canada Spelling in the draft: organise, colour, analyse

What you get

The converter switches the paper to US Letter and flags the photo, date of birth, marital status and declaration for removal, since Canadian recruiters expect them left out. For spelling it follows Canadian usage, which mixes styles: “colour” stays as it is, but “organise” and “analyse” change to “organize” and “analyze”. The result keeps every job and achievement intact and changes only the conventions, so the applicant can apply the changes in one click and review the draft rather than rewriting it.

Common mistakes

Converting to American spelling for Canada or Australia, when Canada mixes British and American forms and Australia follows British spelling.

Keeping A4 paper for a US or Canadian employer, so the printed resume has awkward margins or a last line cut off.

Removing the photo for the UAE as well, where a photo on an application is still common and often expected.

When to use it: Use the converter when one existing resume needs to go to a different country; to build a resume from scratch, start in the resume builder and set the country there.