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Technical CV template for IT and engineering candidates
A technical CV puts the technology first: what the candidate works with, what they are certified in and what they have built. This Word template opens with the name and headline beside a core stack of technology chips, then technical skills grouped by category, certifications with issuer and year, skill levels as five-segment bars, selected projects as cards with the stack used, a compact career history and education. The bars appear only when the CV or your notes state a level; Formatix never rates a skill itself, and without levels the block is left out.
Technical hiring managers scan for the stack before anything else. Most CVs bury it on page two. This layout answers the first question at the top of page one and then shows the projects that prove it.
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What's in the template
A technical CV for IT and engineering candidates with the skills up top: core stack chips beside the name, technical skills by category, certifications, skill-level bars only when a level is stated, selected projects, a compact career history and education.
- Name and headline beside a core stack panel
- Technical skills by category
- Certifications with issuer and year
- Skill levels as bars, only when stated
- Selected projects with the stack used
- Career history and education
What it's for: Permanent IT and engineering submissions where the stack comes first.
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Who uses it
IT and technology recruiters
Developers, cloud, data, security and infrastructure candidates for permanent roles.
Engineering recruiters
Certifications and project work set out where the client looks first.
Agencies asked for skill ratings
Bars from the candidate's or your own stated ratings, never invented.
What a technical CV should show
In this order
- The role and core technologies in one line under the name.
- Technical skills grouped by category, as the candidate uses them.
- Certifications with the issuer and year.
- Two to four projects: what was built, for whom, the stack and a result.
- The career, kept short, without repeating the projects.
Skill levels: only when stated
Bars and stars look precise but mean nothing unless someone stated the level. Use the candidate's own ratings or the ones you agreed on the call, on a stated scale, or leave them out and let the projects show the depth.
How you use it
- 1
Pick the template
Open Formatix, choose this template in Studio, and give us your website. We pull your logo, colours and fonts and rebuild the template in your brand. You see a sample before you use it.
- 2
Drop a CV or your notes
Upload the candidate's CV, in any layout or language. For reports that carry your ratings or notes, add them alongside the CV. One credit fills one document.
- 3
Check and send
The filled document appears beside the original for checking. Edit anything in place, then download the Word, PowerPoint or Excel file, or save it as PDF.
Download or automate? The free download is a plain file you fill in by hand. In Formatix the template is rebuilt in your brand, with your logo, colours and fonts taken from your website, and filled from a CV or your notes in about a minute. What you keep is the finished document: an editable Word, PowerPoint or Excel file.
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Questions about this template
- Where do the skill levels come from?
- Only from a level the CV states or from ratings in your notes, on a one to five scale. Formatix never rates a skill and never infers a level from years of experience. Without stated levels the section is left out.
- How are the technologies grouped?
- In a short table by category, such as cloud, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, security or languages, with the core stack as chips at the top. Only technologies the CV ties to the candidate appear.
- How is it different from the contractor CV?
- The contractor CV leads with availability, day rate and IR35 for contract roles. This is the permanent-hire technical CV, built around stack, certifications and projects.
- How long is it?
- One to two pages.
- Can I download this template?
- Yes. A free, editable Word version with neutral branding and three fictional example candidates is on this page, to fill in by hand. To have it rebuilt in your brand and written automatically from CVs, use it in Formatix; what you keep is an editable Word file.
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