Recruiters spend seconds on a first pass. Your CV has to answer three questions immediately: what you do, where you have done it, and what changed because you were there.
Lead with outcomes
Replace duty lists with results. "Managed support queue" becomes "Cut first-response time from 9h to 45m across a 12,000-ticket queue."
Keep the format boring
One column. Standard headings. No tables, no text boxes, no headshots unless the market expects one. Parsers mangle creative layouts and you lose keywords you actually earned.
Localise carefully
Salary expectations, date of birth, and marital status are expected in some markets and illegal to ask in others. When applying internationally, default to omitting personal data and include a clear work-authorisation line instead.
Prove the numbers
Every figure on your CV should survive a follow-up question. If you cannot explain how you measured it, take it out.