Certified Resume & CV Translation

Most job applications never need a certified resume translation. It becomes necessary at the point where an institution starts reading your history rather than a hiring manager — a licensing board, a credential evaluator, a graduate admissions committee, an immigration filing where work experience is evidence.

This page orders a certified translation of a resume or CV. Pricing is per page, delivery is a PDF with a signed certificate of accuracy attached, and standard turnaround is 2–3 business days.

The line we will not cross: translation is not evaluation

The most common request on this product is also the one we decline, so it is worth stating plainly.

People ask us to render a foreign degree as its American equivalent — to write bachelor’s degree where the diploma says licenciatura, or to map a job title onto the U.S. grade the applicant believes it corresponds to. We do not do that, and a provider who does is handing you a liability rather than a service.

Equivalence is a finding, not a translation. It belongs to a NACES credential evaluator, a state licensing board, or the employer applying its own standards. When a translator quietly upgrades a title, they have authored a claim about your qualifications that you did not make and cannot support — and the certificate of accuracy attached to that document says you did.

So titles, degrees, institutions and qualifications are rendered as issued, with the original term retained where it carries meaning that English flattens. If you also need an equivalency finding, that is a credential evaluation and a different professional buys it for you.

Certified translation versus a rewritten resume

These are two legitimate products that people routinely confuse, and they cannot be the same document.

A certified translation says in English exactly what your resume says, in the same order, and carries a signed statement to that effect. It is what a board or evaluator wants, because they need to know the English in front of them is a faithful rendering of the original.

A rewritten or localized resume reorders your history, rephrases achievements for U.S. hiring conventions, and drops things American recruiters do not expect to see — a photograph, a date of birth, marital status. It is often the more useful document for an actual job hunt. It cannot honestly be certified, because once it has been restructured it is no longer a translation of what you wrote.

If you are applying for a job, you may want the second. If someone has asked you for a certified translation, you need the first. We would rather tell you which one you actually need than sell you the wrong one.

The details that decide whether it is usable

Dates. 03/04/2019 is March in one country and April in another. Dates are rendered so an English-speaking reader cannot misread them, with the original convention noted wherever there is ambiguity.

Academic CVs. Publication titles are rendered in English with the original retained, so a reviewer can still find the paper. Journals, publishers, and grant bodies keep their real names rather than being given invented English equivalents. An academic CV whose sources cannot be located has failed at the only job it had.

Names. Variant spellings and maiden names on earlier roles are flagged rather than silently unified, so a reviewer sees one person with two documented spellings instead of a discrepancy to investigate.

What you receive, and what we do not promise

A complete English translation of every page you send, laid out to mirror your original, plus a signed certificate of accuracy identifying the translator and attesting to competence and completeness.

We make no promise about a hiring, licensing, or admissions outcome — those are the institution’s decisions, and any provider suggesting otherwise is selling you something they cannot deliver. What we stand behind is the translation: if a certified translation of ours is rejected on translation grounds, we correct it free or refund it.