# Building a master CV from scratch

> No CV to import? Start an empty master CV and fill it in section by section: the basics, your roles, education, skills and languages. Put everything in; every tailored CV picks from it. Editing uses no credits.

Help centre: Master CV · How-to · Updated 2026-09-30 · Source: https://rolebranch.com/help/master-cv/building-a-master-cv-from-scratch

## Starting one

From your master CVs, choose **New master CV**, then **Start empty**, and name it for the kind of role it's for, like Frontend engineer. If an import fails before you have a master CV, **Start from scratch** opens an empty one too.

## Filling it in

- **Basics**: your name, headline, contacts and summary, the top of every CV made from this one.
- **Experience**: your roles, newest first. Keep everything here; every tailored CV picks from these. **Add career break** names a gap of months (parental leave, training, a sabbatical) in one line, where a recruiter would otherwise wonder.
- **Education**: degrees and schools, newest first.
- **Skills**: groups of skills with the tools in each. Tailoring matches them against the posting.
- **Languages**: the languages you speak and how well.

**Add a section** brings in volunteering, awards, certificates or publications when you have them.

## Saving it

Save as you go: each save keeps a version you can go back to, and a CV needs one save before you can export it as a PDF. The score shows what's still missing, like start dates or highlights with results.

## If that doesn't work

Tell us which section and what happened. A person on the team replies by email.