Recruitment Agency CV Template

Why your agency needs its own CV template

A recruitment agency’s CV template is more than a document format — it’s a brand asset. Every time you send a candidate presentation to a client, you’re making a statement about your agency’s professionalism, attention to detail, and quality standards.

Generic Word templates downloaded from the internet won’t cut it. They look amateurish, they break when content overflows, and they don’t carry your branding. Your agency deserves a template system that produces consistently beautiful output, regardless of the candidate’s input.

What makes a great agency CV template

The best recruitment CV templates share several characteristics that distinguish them from generic resume templates:

• Agency branding front and centre — your logo appears on every page. Your colour palette defines headings, borders, and accents. Your agency name and contact details are prominent. The candidate is presented as your agency’s product.
• Scannable layout — hiring managers spend an average of 7.4 seconds on an initial CV scan. Your template should make key information — current role, years of experience, key skills — immediately visible.
• Flexible content handling — a template that looks perfect with two jobs breaks when a candidate has ten. Great templates handle variable content lengths gracefully with automatic pagination and overflow management.
• Professional typography — consistent font sizes, proper line heights, balanced whitespace. These details are invisible when done right and painfully obvious when done wrong.
• Print and screen optimised — PDFs that look sharp on screen and print beautifully on paper. No background images that waste toner. No colours that disappear in greyscale printing.

LaTeX-powered templates: a step above Word

Vitae uses LaTeX for template rendering — the same typesetting engine used by academic publishers and scientific journals. This isn’t a gimmick. LaTeX solves real problems that Word templates cannot:

• Pixel-perfect consistency — LaTeX renders the same output every time, on every machine. No “it looked fine on my screen” surprises.
• Automatic pagination — content flows naturally across pages. No manual page breaks. No orphaned headings. No widowed lines.
• Superior typography — proper kerning, ligatures, and microtypographic adjustments that make text look polished without any manual effort.
• Programmatic layout — conditional sections, dynamic skill bars, calculated spacing. Your template adapts to the content rather than forcing content into a rigid structure.

The Vitae template editor

You don’t need LaTeX expertise to create templates in Vitae. The built-in template editor provides two modes:

1. Visual customisation — adjust colours, fonts, spacing, and layout through an intuitive interface. See changes reflected in a live preview with real candidate data.
2. Direct LaTeX editing — for agencies that want full control, the editor offers a code view with syntax highlighting, auto-completion, and real-time compilation. It works like Overleaf, but purpose-built for CV templates with %%PLACEHOLDER%% markers for dynamic data.

Templates use a simple placeholder system. Insert %%FULL_NAME%% where the candidate’s name should appear, %%EXPERIENCE%% for the work history section, and so on. Vitae handles the data injection automatically.

Template management for growing agencies

As your agency grows, your template needs evolve. Vitae supports your growth with:

• Unlimited templates — create as many templates as you need. Different templates for different clients, industries, or seniority levels.
• Template versioning — every change to a template is tracked. Roll back to previous versions if needed. Previously generated CVs always reference the exact template version used.
• Team access — all consultants in your agency can use any template. No emailing Word files around. No “which version is the latest?” confusion.

Try it with your own template

Sign up for Vitae and start with our default professional template, or create your own from scratch. Upload a candidate CV and see it rendered in your agency’s style within seconds. No credit card required.