The shape
One page if you have under ten years of work, two at the most. Name and role at the top, then how to reach you, then a three-line summary, then experience newest first, then skills and tools, then education. No photograph, no date of birth, no marital status, no full home address. A city and country is enough and is what a remote employer actually needs.
Use one plain font and keep the layout in a single column. Two-column CVs with sidebars look designed and read badly, and the software some employers use to store applications often mangles them.
The line that does the most work
Directly under your name, put the title of the job you are applying for, not the title you currently hold. If the advert says Customer Support Representative, that is the line. It is not a lie: it is a statement of what you are applying to do, and it saves the sorter from having to work it out.
Then three lines of summary: what you do, the tools you do it with, and one piece of evidence. Something like: Customer support for small software teams. Comfortable in a shared inbox, a help centre and a chat queue. Replied to about sixty conversations a day in my last role with a same-day resolution on most of them.
Turning duties into results
Take every bullet you have and rewrite it in this shape: what you did, how much or how often, and what changed because of it. The amount does not have to be impressive, it has to be real. A number makes a claim checkable, and checkable claims survive the sort.
- Before: Managed the company social media. After: Posted three times a week across two channels and grew the page from about two hundred followers to about nine hundred over a year.
- Before: Assisted with bookkeeping. After: Recorded about three hundred transactions a month and closed the books within five working days of month end.
- Before: Handled logistics. After: Booked and tracked around twenty loads a week and chased the paperwork so invoices went out the same day.
If your experience is thin
Nobody starts with a full page, and pretending otherwise reads as false. What counts as experience is wider than paid employment: coursework where you produced something, a family business you actually ran part of, a volunteer role, a project you finished for yourself. The test is whether you can describe what you did, how much of it, and show the result.
What does not work is padding. A list of adjectives, a row of skill bars filled to ninety percent, a paragraph about being passionate and hardworking. The sorter has read those thousands of times and they carry no information at all.
One CV per application
Keep one master document with everything in it. For each application, copy it, cut it to one page, and change the top line and the summary to match the advert's own words. It takes about ten minutes and it is the single highest-return thing in this course.