Job hunting usually means rewriting the same CV over and over, once for every application and every format an employer or institution asks for. Sprint CV’s Personal CV Manager is free and built to remove that friction: build your profile once, and generate a polished CV in the template you need in a few clicks.
This guide walks through the free Personal CV Manager end to end for IT consultants: signing up, building your profile, clearing the warnings that flag missing information, and generating your first CV.
If you’re managing CVs for a team or company instead of your own, the Sprint CV – Onboarding Guide covers that side of the platform.
Jump to a tutorial
- Accepting the Terms and Privacy Policy
- The Welcome Screen: Import a CV or Start From Scratch
- Your Profile Page at a Glance
- Personal Details
- Profile Warnings: What Sprint CV Flags as Missing
- CV Summary
- Educational Details
- Languages
- Training Details
- Professional Experience
- Skills, Roles and Industries Evaluations
- Generating a CV
- Profile Manager
- My Account
- Support and Feedback
- Setup Checklist
- Frequently Asked Questions
Accepting the Terms and Privacy Policy
The first time you sign in, Sprint CV asks you to accept the current Data Protection Notice, Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, each with its own checkbox. You need all three checked before the Accept button becomes active.
The Welcome Screen: Import a CV or Start From Scratch
Once you accept the terms, you land on a welcome screen with two ways to begin:
- ✓Upload CV: import an existing CV file (DOCX or PDF) or your LinkedIn profile, and Sprint CV parses it into your profile automatically, showing a results message once the import finishes
- ✓Start empty: skip the import and build your profile from a blank state
An “AI Assistant to review your CV” checkbox is ticked by default. Leave it checked if you want Sprint CV’s AI to look over the imported data and flag anything worth reviewing before you rely on it.
Should I import my CV or start empty?
Import it if you already have an up-to-date CV or LinkedIn profile. It saves you from retyping your career history by hand.
If you import, Sprint CV pre-fills your profile and you move straight to reviewing and correcting the parsed information. If you start empty, you fill in each section yourself. Either way, you end up on the same Profile page.
Your Profile Page at a Glance
Whether you imported a CV or started empty, you land on your Profile page. It brings everything together in one place: personal details, CV summary, education, languages, training and professional experience, and you edit any of them by clicking the pencil icon on that card.
Near the top of the page, two tabs let you switch between Profile and Jobs, and a row of icons gives you access to AI Options and Settings, plus a dropdown to switch between profiles if you manage more than one.
Personal Details
Your personal details sit on the left side of the Profile page. Click the pencil icon next to your photo or name to edit it. This is also the one section worth filling in completely, since several fields here exist specifically to satisfy the requirements of institutional CV templates like DIGIT-TM, ITS-14 and Europass. It covers:
- ✓Profile photo, uploaded through the camera icon
- ✓Name, surname and job title
- ✓Gender and date of birth
- ✓Nationality (if you hold more than one, select the most relevant)
- ✓Country and city of residence
- ✓Phone number, account email and a separate contact email
- ✓End date of high school, required by CV templates such as DIGIT-TM and ITS-14
- ✓Driving license, indicating whether you hold a car licence (B), a motorcycle licence (A), or both, required by templates such as Europass
- ✓Links to your social profiles, such as LinkedIn, GitHub, or a personal website or blog
- ✓Your current contract type: Permanent, Non-permanent, or Freelancer, used in templates like DIGIT-TM and ITS-14
- ✓Your current company name, or your own name together with your tax number if you are not currently working through a company
What should I select for contract type if I am between projects?
Most consultants select Freelancer rather than leaving the field blank.
The contract type field feeds directly into templates like DIGIT-TM and ITS-14, which expect a value here. If you are not currently under contract, Freelancer is the closest accurate description and keeps your profile complete for these formats.
Further down the same section, Sprint CV shows account metadata for reference: when your profile was last updated, your last sign-in time, and when your profile and account were created.
Profile Warnings: What Sprint CV Flags as Missing
A Profile Warnings panel sits at the top of the Profile page, above your personal details and everything else. It lists what Sprint CV still needs from you across your whole profile, not just one section, for example a valid age, a city, a mobile phone, a CV summary, an education entry, a language, a certification, or a project.
How do I clear a Profile Warning?
Click Show next to it to jump straight to the field, fill it in, and the warning clears on its own.
You can also dismiss a single warning without filling it in, or use Dismiss All to clear the whole panel.
CV Summary
The CV Summary section holds the free-text overview that introduces you at the top of a generated CV: your professional identity, motivations, key experience and relevant background. Click the pencil icon to write or edit it.
Sprint CV’s AI assistant can suggest or improve this text based on the rest of your profile, so you are not always starting from a blank page.
Educational Details
This section captures your academic background:
- ✓Degree type
- ✓Academic duration, the official length of the program (for example, if a 3-year degree took you 4 years to finish, select 3 years)
- ✓Course name and institution
- ✓Start date, and either an end date or a “still ongoing” checkbox if you have not finished yet
- ✓Final grade, with the scoring scale it was graded on
- ✓A description of the course and any relevant projects
Languages
For each language, Sprint CV asks for three separate ratings: written, spoken, and understanding. Each is set on the same five-level scale, based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages:
- ✓Elementary (equivalent to A2)
- ✓Limited Working (B1)
- ✓Professional Working (C1)
- ✓Full Professional (C2)
- ✓Native or Bilingual
Training Details
Certifications, workshops and executive education entries go here. For each one, Sprint CV asks for:
- ✓Training name and type: course, certification, workshop, or similar
- ✓Institution name
- ✓Whether it is an exam or a certification, and its status
- ✓A single-day checkbox, if the training took place in one day
- ✓Start and end dates
- ✓Final grade, if applicable
Professional Experience
This is the most detailed part of your profile, covering IT projects, academic experience, freelance work and volunteering. Each entry is built across four steps:
1. Project Overview
- ✓Project name, your job title, and the client
- ✓Client department, if applicable
- ✓An “EC Intramuros” checkbox, if the work was for the European Commission or another EU institution
- ✓A client rating from 0 to 5 stars
- ✓Project start date, and either an end date or an “ongoing” checkbox if it’s your current project
- ✓Your main achievements on the project
2. Project Details
- ✓Team size and contract type
- ✓Project location (country and city)
- ✓Employer or company name
- ✓Industry classification
- ✓Contract classification: Freelancer, Permanent, or Non-permanent
- ✓Project type: Consulting, Outsourcing, or Internal
- ✓A narrative overview of the project
3. Role Details
You can add multiple roles per project, each with its own description of your responsibilities. It’s common to hold more than one role on the same project, for example Developer and Team Leader, and Sprint CV aggregates all of them into your profile automatically.
4. Skill Details
List every skill, technology, framework and methodology you used on the project, with roughly how much time you spent on each. Even brief exposure to a technology is worth including, since it can still matter for job matching later.
If a project on your profile is missing a role description, it shows up as a warning until you add one, since role descriptions feed directly into how your skills and roles get evaluated in the next section.
Skills, Roles and Industries Evaluations
Once your professional experience is filled in, Sprint CV automatically aggregates it into evaluations shown on your profile.
Skills & Evaluation lists every technology, tool or methodology you used, with your total time on each. You can sort this list by name, by months of experience, or by competence level, or reorder it yourself by dragging entries manually. Your top 10 skills are highlighted and get special attention when your CV is generated, so make sure the ones you most want a client to see are among them.
Roles & Evaluation aggregates the job roles you have held across your projects, typically on a monthly basis, and you can review and adjust the result if something looks off.
Industries Experience shows the industries you have worked in, such as banking or e-commerce, with total years in each.
None of these aggregations are final. Treat them as a starting point and correct anything that does not match how you would describe your own experience.
Generating a CV
Once your profile is in reasonable shape, generating a CV takes a few steps from the Profile page:
- ✓Click Generate CV and choose a template
- ✓Click Generate
- ✓Wait roughly 30 seconds while Sprint CV builds the document
- ✓Download the result as a DOCX file
- ✓Leave feedback on the result if you have any
Profile Manager
A single Sprint CV account can hold more than one profile, for example if you need a version in a different language or tailored for a different kind of role. From the Profile Manager you can:
- ✓Create a new profile, either by copying an existing one or by importing a fresh CV
- ✓Modify a profile’s settings
- ✓Copy a profile
- ✓Delete a profile you no longer need
Sprint CV’s AI assistant can also review and improve an existing profile’s content from here, and automatically translate a profile into a new language. Both run in the background and email you once the new profile is ready.
My Account
Account-level settings, separate from your profile content, live under My Account:
- ✓Changing your profile photo
- ✓Changing your login email (this requires confirmation)
- ✓Changing your password
- ✓Editing your personal details
- ✓Deleting your account
- ✓Logging out
Setup Checklist
- ✓Accept the Data Protection Notice, Privacy Policy and Terms of Service
- ✓On the welcome screen, import your CV or LinkedIn profile, or start empty
- ✓Fill in your personal details in full, including the fields specific to DIGIT-TM, ITS-14 and Europass
- ✓Work through the Profile Warnings panel until it is clear, or dismiss what does not apply
- ✓Write or generate your CV Summary, including the smaller competency and hobby fields
- ✓Add your education, your written/spoken/understanding language levels, and your training
- ✓Add each professional experience across all four steps, including client department and EC Intramuros where relevant
- ✓Review the automatically generated skills, roles and industries evaluations, and adjust anything that looks off
- ✓Generate your first CV in the template you need
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Sprint CV still use a step-by-step wizard to build a profile?
No. Personal details, education, languages, training and professional experience are now all sections on a single Profile page, each edited in place with its own pencil icon.
What do the Profile Warnings on my Sprint CV account mean?
They list information still missing from your profile, such as your age, city, mobile phone, CV summary, education, a language, a certification or a project. Click Show on any warning to jump to that field, or dismiss it if it does not apply to you.
Can I import my CV instead of typing everything in manually?
Yes. On the welcome screen, choose Upload CV to import a CV file or your LinkedIn profile, and Sprint CV parses it into your profile automatically.
Why does Sprint CV ask for my high school end date and driving license?
Some institutional CV templates require them by default. High school end date is expected in DIGIT-TM and ITS-14, and driving license status is part of the official Europass format. Filling them in once means every CV you generate in those templates is already complete.
How does Sprint CV calculate my skills, roles and industries?
It aggregates them automatically from the professional experience you enter, based on the projects, roles and technologies you list and the time you spent on each.
Can I have more than one profile in Sprint CV?
Yes, through the Profile Manager. You can keep separate profiles, for example in different languages, and switch between them from your account.
What file format does Sprint CV generate my CV in?
Sprint CV generates your CV as a DOCX file, in whichever template you select, including Sprint CV’s own template and institutional formats like Europass or DIGIT-TM.
Support and Feedback
If you have any questions, encounter any issues, or would like to share suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Your feedback is essential to help us improve Sprint CV and provide a better experience for all users.
