There are probably a gazillion sites with tips on how to write a good curriculum vitae, so noone’s going to bother you pointing them. Let’s just keep it simple.

Whether you are planning to enrol in an education or training programme, looking for a job, or getting experience abroad, it is important to be able to make your skills and competences clearly understood. If you want to accomplish this inside the European Union, Europass is an initiative of the European Commission dedicated to these issues.

The Europass website at http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu features some tools and forms so that all your information regarding your curriculum vitae, competences, education and previous experiences are published in a standartized way. Curricula data can be compiled online with proper guidance and a few tips, loaded and saved in XML format for later editing and downloaded in several printable (or editable) formats.