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Swedish CV Examples (CV-Exempel) for Different Professions

Two complete Swedish CVs — a student applying for a first shop job and an experienced project manager — showing the structure Swedish employers shortlist. Copy the layout, adapt the facts to your own history.

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How to use them

Using a Swedish CV example properly

Study the example closest to your stage first and note how it is built: what leads, how the sammanfattning is phrased, how modest-but-measured the claims stay. The build is what you reuse; the content is what you replace.

Never copy the wording. Swedish application volumes per posting are high, and recruiters recognise lifted examples quickly. Take the pattern — verb, task, number — and write from your own work.

By stage

What changes by career stage

  • Students & first jobs Utbildning leads. Summer jobs, association roles, sports and volunteering are written like employment — dates, tasks, outcomes. Availability and language skills are genuine assets.
  • Experienced specialists Experience dominates page one; education compresses. Every recent role shows scope — orders, students, budget — and one measured result.
  • Managers Two pages acceptable. Team size, budget and collaboration across functions belong in the first half of page one.

The traps

Mistakes these examples avoid

  • Superlative inflation 'Outstanding, world-class, exceptional' — the Swedish recruiter's allergy list. Measured claims with numbers are the Swedish register.
  • Duty lists 'Responsible for the warehouse' describes the post, not the person. Accuracy rates and volumes describe the person.
  • Personnummer on the CV Your identity number never belongs on a CV — it is shared at contract stage, and asking earlier is bad practice.
  • One CV for everything Teamtailor and the boards rank keyword matches; ten minutes of tailoring per advert is the highest-return habit in a Swedish job search.

Worked examples

Two complete Swedish CVs

Shown in English — the order and structure translate directly into Swedish.

Example 1 — Student, first shop job

No experience · Uppsala · one page

Elin Johansson Uppsala, Sweden · +46 70 123 45 67 · elin.johansson@email.se SAMMANFATTNING Final-year gymnasium student looking for weekend retail work. Handled the till at three sports-club tournaments and coached a youth floorball team. Available Saturdays, Sundays and one weekday evening. ERFARENHET Tournament volunteer — Sirius Floorball, Uppsala | 2024 – 2026 • Ran the till and kiosk for 400+ visitors per tournament day • Balanced the cash at close-down with zero discrepancies in 9 tournaments Youth coach — F12 floorball team | 2024 – present • Plan and run two training sessions a week for 16 players UTBILDNING 2023 – 2026 | Gymnasium, social science programme — Uppsala KOMPETENSER Tills & card terminals · Group leadership · MS Office SPRÅK Swedish: native · English: fluent (school) · Spanish: basics References provided on request.

No employer yet — but money handled across nine events and sixteen children coached weekly. At first-job level, that is what reliability looks like.

Example 2 — Project manager, 8 years' experience

Experienced · Stockholm · two pages

Anders Lindqvist Stockholm, Sweden · +46 73 987 65 43 · a.lindqvist@email.se · linkedin.com/in/anderslindqvist SAMMANFATTNING Project manager with 8 years in construction and public-sector property. Delivered 5 school refurbishments totalling SEK 240m, all within procurement frameworks. Seeking a senior PM role in infrastructure. ARBETSLIVSERFARENHET Project Manager — Bygg nord AB, Stockholm | 04/2019 – present • Led 5 school refurbishment projects (SEK 30–70m each), all handed over on schedule • Cut design-stage change orders by 35% via early contractor involvement • Managed project teams of 6–12 across architecture, HSE and site management Assistant Project Manager — Stadsbyggnad Konsult, Göteborg | 08/2017 – 03/2019 • Ran procurement documentation for 10+ public tenders (LOU) • Maintained cost forecasts with max 2% variance at completion UTBILDNING 2017 | MSc Civil Engineering — Chalmers, Göteborg KOMPETENSER LOU procurement · MS Project · Bygganalys · Risk management Swedish: native · English: fluent · German: working knowledge References provided on request.

Budgets, schedules, team sizes and a procurement regime named — senior Swedish PM hiring reads exactly these signals.

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FAQ

Swedish CV examples: questions

May I reuse these CV examples verbatim?

The structure, yes — it follows Swedish conventions. The phrasing, no: recruiters recognise lifted examples, and your own measured results argue better than borrowed ones.

Should the CV be in Swedish or English?

Follow the posting: Swedish postings expect Swedish, English postings expect English. For international employers in Sweden, a matching English CV is often the stronger choice.

Do summer jobs and associations count as experience?

Fully — especially for students and young professionals. Sommarjobb, förening roles and coaching are written like employment, with dates, tasks and outcomes.

How do I handle employment gaps?

Name them plainly in one line: parental leave (föräldraledighet), studies, a sabbatical. Unexplained gaps raise more questions than honest labels ever will.

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