Your South Asian CV, rebuilt for the world

A recruiter spots what is wrong with your CV in seconds. We help you put your CV in the best position to be seen worldwide.

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Traditional South Asian CV

Ready for your next market?

South Asian graduates have gone on to roles at companies like these after rebuilding their CV with us.

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  • HSBC
  • Barclays
  • Google
  • Accenture
  • Infosys
  • Shopify
  • Meta
  • Vodafone
  • TCS
  • Qantas
  • BT
  • Netflix
  • Wipro
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Virgin Atlantic
  • Uber
  • SAP
  • Cisco
  • O2

Five things on your CV that get it rejected

This isn't rare. It's how most South Asian CVs get formatted, and applicant tracking systems reject that format before a recruiter ever opens it.

Flagged

"CGPA: 8.4 / 10"

Fixed

"First-class equivalent (3.94 GPA conversion)"

"CGPA: 8.4 / 10"

UK and Canadian recruiters don't recognise the scale. Your top-decile result reads as an unknown fraction.

"First-class equivalent (3.94 GPA conversion)"

Expressed in the metric your target recruiter can benchmark against every other candidate.

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Flagged

Photograph in the header

Fixed

Photo removed. Clean professional header.

Photograph in the header

UK and CA ATS systems discard CVs with photos. Legally, employers can't request one — having it flags the application immediately.

Photo removed. Clean professional header.

Name, city, LinkedIn, and target market phone format. Nothing that can be used to filter you out.

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Flagged

"Date of Birth: 20/03/1995"

Fixed

Personal details section removed entirely.

"Date of Birth: 20/03/1995"

Including personal details is an Equality Act flag in UK applications. It signals a CV formatted for a different market before the first line is read.

Personal details section removed entirely.

Compliant with UK Equality Act and standard Canadian and Australian hiring practice.

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Flagged

"Declaration: I hereby declare…"

Fixed

Declaration section removed.

"Declaration: I hereby declare…"

Standard in South Asian CVs. A recruiter in Manchester or Melbourne spots the format immediately.

Declaration section removed.

This section has no equivalent in UK, CA, or AU CVs. Its absence is the correct format.

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Flagged

Objective Statement

Fixed

Three-line professional summary, role-specific.

Objective Statement

Objective statements were replaced by professional summaries in UK, CA, and AU hiring practice over a decade ago.

Three-line professional summary, role-specific.

Written for your target market and the specific job, not a generic description of your background.

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Four steps, every time

We actually read every CV, line by line, before touching it. What we fix depends on what's broken, and that's different for everyone. No template, no standard rebuild, just whatever that person's CV needs.

Step 1 of 4

Submit your current CV

Upload your CV and tell us your target role, industry, and destination country. Takes about three minutes.

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Step 2 of 4

We diagnose the gaps

Every field is reviewed against UK, Canadian, or Australian conventions: education framing, company context, section order, and details that need to come out.

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Step 3 of 4

We rebuild for the target market

We reframe achievements in the language of your target market, contextualise qualifications, and remove prohibited fields. The substance of your career is preserved exactly.

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Step 4 of 4

Delivered, ATS-ready

You get an ATS-optimised PDF within 5 business days, ready to submit wherever you're applying. One free revision is included if you need changes.

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Formatted for where you're headed.

Three markets live today, with more on the way.

Coming soon

  • UAE and Gulf
  • United States
  • Germany
  • Singapore
  • Remote / Global

DesiCV vs. the alternatives

DesiCVKickresume

Understands South Asian CVs

Yes

Understands South Asian CVs

No

Purpose-built for UK, Canada & Australia

UK, CA, AU

Purpose-built for UK, Canada & Australia

US / Global Templates

Pricing model

One-time Fee

Pricing model

~$19 / month

ATS-optimised PDF, No Watermark

Yes

ATS-optimised PDF, No Watermark

Paid plan only

Human review before delivery

Yes

Human review before delivery

No

Destination market formatting expertise

Yes

Destination market formatting expertise

No

From people who've made the move.

“I'd been applying for months with the same experience on a different CV. The IIT framing was what I'd been getting wrong the whole time. They knew exactly how to translate it for a UK recruiter.”

Arjun R.

Software Engineer, London, UK

Why I built this.

Over the years I've made friends everywhere California, Europe, places work took me. And I kept watching the same thing happen. Brilliant people, genuinely talented, visas running out. They'd apply for jobs and nothing.

So I'd help them. Rewrite the CV, cut what didn't translate, reposition things. And it worked. Suddenly there were interviews, offers.

That's how DesiCV started. Not because of a lack of talent. Just that nobody could see the resume in the first place.

The questions worth asking.

No. We change the format and framing, not the substance. Your experience, your achievements, and your voice stay intact. What we remove is the formatting that flags you as from a different market before the first line is read. The result sounds like you, written for the right audience.