Netherlands Resume Template

Why the Netherlands template works

The Dutch CV is one of the plainest in Europe, and that is the point: recruiters here scan for facts, not presentation. Keep it to one or two pages, reverse-chronological, opening with a short profielschets - three or four lines saying who you are professionally and what you are looking for. Personalia stay minimal. Dutch application guidance consistently lists four contact fields as sufficient: full name, phone number, a professional email address, and the city you live in - a full street address is not expected. What you leave off matters more than what you add. Never put your BSN (burgerservicenummer) on a CV: under Dutch data-protection rules an employer may not ask for it during a selection procedure at all, only once you are actually hired, and the same applies to a copy of your passport or ID card. A photo is neither required nor forbidden in the Netherlands, and date of birth is not required either - both are optional and often left off, so if you are applying from a country where a photo is standard, this is a field you can drop rather than translate. Most Dutch vacancies also expect a motivatiebrief alongside the CV; it is a separate document, not a paragraph on the CV. If the vacancy is written in English, apply in English - at Amsterdam-region and international employers this is normal and switching to Dutch you do not command reads worse than applying in English. The underlying shape is a clean single-column layout, and like every LumiCV template it is parse-tested: we render it to PDF and check that a parser reads each field back in order.

What's included with every LumiCV resume

• ATS-parseable PDF export. Real text, not images - and parse-tested, so a machine parser recovers every field in the correct reading order.
• AI resume tailoring. Paste a job description and LumiCV rewrites your bullets to match the role's keywords.
• Match score and ATS keyword analysis. See where you match the role and where you have gaps before you submit.
• Switch templates anytime. Your content stays. Try a different layout in one click.
• On the free plan. All 11 country formats and 3 ATS templates are free. Pro adds 14 more templates, plus unlimited AI tailoring and cover letters.