UAE-focused · Built for Dubai, Abu Dhabi & GCC hiring

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Recruiters in Dubai spend 6 seconds per CV. Ours are built to survive that — ATS-clean, visa-ready, and designed for the Gulf market. Free to build. No sign-up.

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SARAH AL-RASHIDI

Senior Marketing Manager

Dubai, UAE sarah.r@email.com +971 50 000 0000
Residence VisaUAE Driving Licence

Experience

Senior Marketing Manager

2021 – Present

Emirates Group · Dubai

  • · Led GCC digital campaigns reaching 2.1M users, +45% YoY engagement
  • · Cut CPA 32% via paid-search restructure
  • · Managed AED 4.2M annual marketing budget across 6 markets

Education

BBA, Marketing

2016

American University of Sharjah

Skills

Digital MarketingGoogle AdsHubSpotBrand StrategyGA4Arabic

Templates

Templates designed for UAE recruiters — not US LinkedIn influencers.

Every template is ATS-parseable, Gulf-appropriate (photo field optional, visa status supported), and reviewed by recruiters hiring in the region.

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Why most CVs fail in the UAE.

It\u2019s rarely about your experience. It\u2019s about how your CV is read — first by software, then by a recruiter with 40 other tabs open.

The ATS filter eats 75% before anyone reads them.

ENOC, Emaar, Majid Al Futtaim, ADCB — every major UAE employer screens with software first. Fancy columns, headers, and icons break the parser. Your CV never reaches a human.

Generic templates scream “expat import”.

Gulf recruiters spot a Canva/Word template in one glance. Missing visa status, no nationality, no Emirates ID mention — it signals you don’t understand the market.

Walls of text lose the 6-second scan.

UAE recruiters average 6.2 seconds on a first pass. If your impact isn’t scannable in bullet points with numbers, you’re filtered out before your degree is read.

MakeMyCV solves all three — automatically.

ATS-parseable structure. UAE-native fields. Recruiter-scannable layout. You fill it in. We handle the rest.

Built around how UAE hiring actually works.

Every feature exists because a recruiter, HR manager, or job seeker told us it mattered.

ATS-parseable by default

Tested against the same parsers used by UAE banks, telcos, and DIFC firms. No broken columns. No lost formatting.

UAE-specific fields

Nationality, visa status, Emirates ID, driving licence, languages — all built-in, all optional.

Instant PDF export

One click, clean PDF. Free download comes with a light watermark. Pro removes it for $5.

Live preview as you type

No “hit save to see it”. See every change the moment you type it.

AI rewriter (Pro)

Turns “responsible for managing team” into “Led 8-person operations team, reduced fulfilment time 22%”.

Your data stays in your browser

No accounts, no uploads, no databases. Close the tab, it’s gone.

From blank page to PDF in 5 minutes.

No account. No credit card. No \u201Cupgrade to continue\u201D popup at step 3.

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~2 min

Fill in your details.

Paste from your old CV, or start fresh. We guide you field by field — visa status, experience, skills.

2
~1 min

Pick a template.

Classic, Modern, Executive, Graduate. Switch any time — your data stays.

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~30 sec

Download & apply.

Export as PDF, or unlock AI rewriting and watermark removal for $5.

Start building — Free

No credit card. No account. Your data never leaves your browser.

Pricing

Free forever. Pro is $5 per download — pay only when you\u2019re ready to send it.

No subscriptions. No trials. No auto-renewal traps.

Free

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Full builder. All templates. PDF download with small watermark.

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$5 / download

No watermark. AI rewriter. Priority templates.

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Proof

Trusted by UAE job seekers who got hired.

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CVs built this year

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UAE companies users have applied to

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Based on anonymised builder analytics, Jan–Dec 2025.

“I applied to 40 jobs with my old CV — 1 callback. Rebuilt it on MakeMyCV, applied to 12 — 4 interviews in 10 days.”

RH

Rawan H.

Senior Accountant · Abu Dhabi

Hired at a DIFC audit firm, Feb 2026

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