Best way to produce a CV? Help... please?

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We have refugees from Ukraine staying with us and the job centre have told them to do a CV and that they should ask me to help. Trouble is that I've never actually written one or at least not since a draft one I did at school. I walked out of university into a job and I'm still in same company 23 years later so have never needed to write one.

I know there are templates online but not sure what's best to do. They were pointed to one on Indeed by the job centre but it won't let them go through because they can't name a UK school or something like that.

Please point me to a good free template that will make it as easy possible for novice CV writer (me) and poor English speakers (them) and if you've got any advice please feel free to give it to me They're applying for jobs as cleaners and similar.

Honestly its really embarrassing but I'm lost on this one.

Try Canva. I've just produced a CV on there and after I got the hang of it, I managed to make a fab, professional but creative looking CV with not too much stress! The basic version is free (you need to set up an account so that it saves your documents though). Avoid any templates that say Pro on them as they are the ones you pay for.

Advice - if you have an 'about me' type section, maybe add words like reliable, honest, hardworking. Keep things concise - one page max is fine. Briefly explain their situation in the cover email or letter. Cleaners are very in demand so I hope they will find work really soon.

www.canva.com/t/EADapIUg5_k-white-and-pastel-teal-minimalist-resume/

Something like this could work. All the areas are fully customisable and removable. If you delete something by accident (I did this numerous times!) don't panic, the undo button is the bank arrow at the top left of the page.

Canva is v v pretty and modern. Filter out the ones you have to pay for.

There are some very reasonable ones in Word.

I dont know what cv ettiquette is in ukraine but many places in europe use photos on cvs. Dont let them do that in the UK. Big no no.

List experience and education in reverse chronological order. Education first if they are a new graduate or school leaver only.