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Recruitment (2/3)
The CV is a document. A person sends it to a company to be hired. It presents the person to the employer.
Key points of the sheet
- The CV presents work experience, training, skills and qualities. This way, the company assesses the person's ability to do the job.
- Sending a CV is not compulsory.
- It is important to write your CV according to the information asked for in the job offer. You put your surname, first name, email, phone number and age.
- You also put your main work experience or the experience linked to the offer, and your training. An ID photo is not compulsory.
- For the company, the information asked for in the job offer must be directly linked to the job offered.
- A person hired with a CV that contains false information can be dismissed.
Words to know
- CV (curriculum vitae) (Curriculum Vitae (CV))
- It is a document sent to a company to be hired. It presents the person to the employer.
- job offer (offre)
- In it, the company asks for information. This information must be directly linked to the job offered.
- work experience (expérience professionnelle)
- The CV presents it. You can put your main experience or the experience linked to the offer.
- ID photo (Photographie d'identité)
- You can put it in the CV, but it is not compulsory.
Test yourself: 3 questions
What is a CV for?
In French, the language of the exam: À quoi sert un CV ?
The CV is sent to a company to be hired. It presents the person to the employer.
Is sending a CV compulsory?
In French, the language of the exam: L'envoi d'un CV est-il obligatoire ?
The sheet says that sending a CV is not compulsory.
The information asked for in a job offer must:
In French, the language of the exam: Les informations demandées dans une offre de travail doivent :
The information asked for in the offer must be directly linked to the job offered.
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Sheet “Recrutement (2/3)” of the French Ministry of the Interior: formation-civique.interieur.gouv.fr. Content published under the Etalab Open Licence 2.0. This page is a plain-language adaptation made by Hexaciv, which is not an official site: if in doubt, the ministry's text is the one that counts.
Ministry sheet read on 23 October 2026, still identical on 25 October 2026.