International CV & Resume Guide

A US-style one-page resume with no photo and no personal details reads as standard in the US and increasingly in remote-first hiring generally — but in parts of Continental Europe, a longer CV with a photo and basic personal details is still a common convention, and omitting them can read as incomplete rather than modern. Neither is objectively correct; both are regional norms worth matching to your specific audience.

For remote roles specifically, employers are generally less concerned with matching a local format convention and more concerned with clear evidence you can actually do distributed work — prior remote experience, tools you're fluent in, and time zones you've successfully worked across are worth foregrounding regardless of which country's format convention you're loosely following.

If you're applying to a specific country's local job market rather than a remote-first employer, it's worth looking at a few real local examples in your target country and industry directly rather than assuming a single universal template works everywhere — format conventions genuinely vary enough that this is worth the extra research.

Address and contact details are worth a specific mention: listing a full home address is standard practice in some countries and unusual (sometimes flagged as a privacy oversight) in others. When in doubt, a city and country is generally a safe middle ground that works across most conventions.