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Two to three pages is normal in Australia, and that surprises people who read American advice telling them to squeeze everything onto one page. Australian recruiters expect enough room for your full work history, referees, and sometimes licences or tickets. One page is fine for a first job or a casual role. Past five years of experience, two pages is the standard and three is acceptable for senior or technical careers.

No. Australian anti discrimination rules make employers cautious about anything that reveals age, appearance, or background, so most recruiters prefer resumes without a photo and some will set a photo resume aside to avoid any question of bias. FreeCV templates only show a photo if you choose to add one, so the safe default for Australian applications is simply to leave it out. The same goes for date of birth and marital status.

Australians use both words for the same document, and job ads mix them freely. SEEK says resume, universities say CV, and neither is wrong. The document itself is the same two to three page summary of your experience. The academic CV, the long version listing every publication, only matters if you are applying for research or academic roles.

Referees are the Australian term for references, the people a hiring manager can ring to ask about you. The convention is two, usually a current or recent manager and one other person who has seen your work. List their name, role, and phone number at the end of your resume, or write that referees are available on request if you would rather they are not contacted before an interview. If the job ad asks for referees by name, name them.

Government, council, university, and many healthcare roles in Australia ask you to address selection criteria in a separate document, and skipping it gets your application binned no matter how good the resume is. Answer each criterion with a short STAR story: the Situation, the Task you owned, the Action you took, and the Result with a number if you have one. The FreeCV AI assistant can help you draft and tighten each response from your own facts.

Yes, and free means the whole workflow. You build the resume, use the AI, pick a template, and download a clean A4 PDF without paying, without creating an account, and without a watermark. 1319 rated users put FreeCV at 4.4 out of 5. There is an optional $19 one time PRO upgrade for premium templates and higher AI limits, but nothing about an Australian job application requires it.

Yes. SEEK and LinkedIn applications either take an uploaded PDF or pass your file to the employer, and many Australian employers then run it through applicant tracking software. FreeCV exports a clean text based PDF that parses correctly, and the built in ATS checker scores your resume against the wording of any job ad you paste in, so you can close keyword gaps before you apply.

A4, the same size used across Australia for every business document. FreeCV exports A4 by default, so the PDF you download prints exactly as it looks. If you ever apply to a US company that wants Letter size, the builder lets you switch the page size for that one download.

Only when it helps you. If you are a citizen or permanent resident and the ad asks about working rights, one line such as Australian citizen or Permanent resident near your contact details answers the question before it is asked. If you are on a working holiday or student visa, be ready to state your work rights honestly, because employers will ask and a surprise at interview stage helps nobody.

No. Leave off date of birth, age, marital status, and religion. None of them are required, employers cannot ask for them without a reason, and including them creates the exact discrimination questions recruiters are trying to avoid. The only personal details an Australian resume needs are your name, suburb or city, phone, and email.

Lead with what you have: education, casual and part time work, volunteering, sport, and school or uni projects. A checkout shift proves reliability, a team sport proves you turn up, a group assignment proves you can work with people you did not choose. Write two or three bullets under each with something specific you did, and keep it to one page. The FreeCV AI turns plain descriptions into confident bullets without inventing anything.

Yes. Ask the assistant to use Australian English and it will write organise, specialise, and labour rather than the American spellings. It also keeps your own wording where it is already strong, so the result reads like you on a good day rather than a machine.

The PDF download is free and is what most Australian applications want. Word export is part of the PRO upgrade for the occasional employer who specifically asks for a .docx file. If an ad does not name a format, send the PDF, because it locks your layout on every device.

Often yes. Many Australian employers still read cover letters, and government applications usually expect one alongside the selection criteria. FreeCV includes a free cover letter generator that writes a first draft from your resume and the job ad, which you then edit into your own voice in a few minutes.

Your resume content stays in your browser through local storage rather than on our servers. Nothing you type into the builder is sold or shared, and you can build and download without ever entering an email address. Download the PDF when you finish, because clearing your browser data clears the local copy too.