ATS-Optimised UK Tech CV

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# ATS-Optimised UK Tech CV — Template

> A free CV template from GeraJobs designed to pass automated Applicant
> Tracking System (ATS) parsers used by 90% of UK and European employers.
> Replace the bracketed [placeholders] with your own details. Keep the
> simple section headings exactly as shown — ATS parsers look for them.

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## [Your Full Name]

[Your City, Country] · [+44 7xxx xxxxxx] · [[email protected]] · [linkedin.com/in/yourprofile] · [github.com/yourhandle]

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## Professional Summary

[1-3 sentence summary written in plain English. State your seniority level, your primary stack, and the type of role you are looking for. Example: "Senior backend engineer with 7 years of experience building high-throughput payment platforms in Python and Go. Looking for a staff-level role at a fintech scale-up where I can own the core-services platform."]

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## Skills

- **Languages:** [Python, TypeScript, Go]
- **Frameworks:** [Django, FastAPI, Next.js, NestJS]
- **Cloud / Infra:** [AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda), Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes]
- **Databases:** [PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch]
- **Practices:** [TDD, CI/CD, code review, on-call rotations]

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## Experience

### [Job Title] — [Company Name], [City]
**[Month Year] – [Month Year or "Present"]**

- [Verb-led bullet describing one project. Quantify the outcome: "Cut p95 checkout latency from 3.2s to 480ms by introducing a Redis read-through cache, lifting checkout completion 6%."]
- [Second bullet on a different project. One number per bullet minimum: percentage, currency, hours saved, or scale handled.]
- [Third bullet on collaboration / leadership: "Mentored two juniors through promotion to mid-level inside 14 months."]

### [Previous Job Title] — [Previous Company], [City]
**[Month Year] – [Month Year]**

- [Same shape as above. 3-4 bullets per role. Reverse chronological.]

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## Education

**[Degree, Subject]** — [University Name], [City]
[Month Year] – [Month Year]

[Optional: dissertation title, classification, one notable module.]

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## Side Projects (optional)

- **[Project Name]** ([URL]) — [One sentence on what it does and what technology it uses. Include if your day-job stack does not match the job spec you are applying to.]

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## Why this template passes ATS parsers

1. **Section headings are standard.** Most ATS systems are configured to look for the exact strings "Summary", "Skills", "Experience", and "Education". Variant headings ("My Story", "Tech I Love", "Where I Worked") cause the parser to drop the section.
2. **No graphics, columns, tables, or icons.** ATS parsers strip layout aggressively. Anything that visually overlaps loses content.
3. **Verb-led bullets with numbers.** Recruiters scan for action + outcome. A single number per bullet is the recruiter signal.
4. **Reverse chronological order.** ATS systems weight recent roles higher. A skills-first / functional CV is filtered out by 2026.
5. **Dates as Month Year.** Numeric-only dates ("07/24 – 03/26") are inconsistently parsed. Spell the month.

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## Length

**Two pages maximum.** A senior engineer with 10+ years can run to two; everyone else fits on one. Recruiters spend 7.4 seconds on a first scan (Ladders 2018). Anything they do not see in those 7 seconds is invisible.

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## After you have customised this template

- Save as a single PDF named "[Your Name] CV.pdf". Avoid .docx — Word formatting drifts between versions.
- Run through a free ATS-checker (Jobscan, Resume Worded, or the built-in scanner on most ATS demo pages). Aim for 80% match against the job description.
- Apply directly through GeraJobs at https://gerajobs.com. We forward your application to the employer in plain JSON so nothing is lost in PDF translation.

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