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CV was used the recruiter as an initial selection in hiring employees. This study aims to describe how the format, design, and content of CVs in the Indonesian context as one of developing countries. Respondents were selected from database visitors 2018 Job Fair at a private university in Jakarta. Data collection was done by sending questionnaires to 300 respondents through google forms and requesting them to attach their CVs and cover letters. Total respondents who filled out questionnaires and sent CVs were 46 people. Data were analyzed by descriptive qualitative and quantitative. The results are respondents (67%) copied the template of CV from the website, wrote CV in English (63%) not more than one pages (87%). The CVs mostly are written in chronologically format (96%), two columns (61%), with creative design (78%). Obligatory contents consist of a photo, personal data, formal education, GPA, organizational experience, work experience, and hard skill. Optional contents consist of career goal, summary, research title, achievement, training, hobby, interest, soft skills, certificate, reference, social media link, and signature. This study concludes that the CVs still lacks of persuasive selling.  \nKeywords—curriculum vitae; resume; applicant; cultural context; cover letter  \nI. INTRODUCTION  \nCollege graduates increase every year, but the labor market is limited. Only those who can compete competitively will exist in the labor market [1] . One crucial factor that needs to be considered by applicants before seeking job vacancy is curriculum vitae (CV) or resume (here we used mostly familiar’s term: CV) . The CV is one particular genre in professional settings [2], which plays an essential role in the recruitment process [3-5] . CV writing requires special skill because it is the initial selection in recruiting employees, and also an initial process for eliminating applicants [6], and promoting themselves [7] . As a personal brand, the CV contains all the strength, the uniqueness that can be \"sold\" to recruiters. Applicants' past performance will be an indicator of success in future performance [5] .  \nThe CV is a document contain relevant information needed by recruiters [8], \"a brief note of a person's personal history and qualifications that are usually prepared by applicants for work\"  \n[9] . The CV was written by self-expression regarding the competency and professional ability of applicants to support the job of interest. As an image of themselves, applicants indicate that they are the right candidate to fill the position. It is shown by the good first impression that the CV \"is not only linguistic-competent and visually appealing but also textually responsive to diverse contextual influences\" [4] . CV balances aspects of content (linguistic aspects) and appearance or format (nonlinguistic) [4], but also the context, namely the environment in which communication occurs.  \nSome researchers have found many different factors regarding CV that had a positive impact [3,10,11] . Other studies focus on language use [9,12,13], format, appearance/layout, and content [4,13-17], various types of CVs [4], cross-cultural studies [4,8,18] .  \nIndonesia is one of the developing countries which consists of different races, religion, and culture. In Indonesia, empirical study about CVs which sent by the applicant to the company is still very lacking, let alone those that are purely using CVs sent to the company. This study different with Bastomi which examined 40 CVs in the postgraduate thesis of the State University of Malang, Indonesia. He only in","cbCaiodW0btbmmA6","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiodW0btbmmA6","pdf",2281538,"English","# I. 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