Translate your consultant CV between Norwegian and English – without rewriting it

You have just finished a CV for a tender in Norwegian. The next day, an international client asks for the same profile in English. In practice, that often means two hours of manually translating project descriptions, roles and summaries – and two versions that gradually drift apart.

The problem is not the translation, but the maintenance

As long as CVs live in separate documents, every update has to be made twice. Add a new project to the Norwegian CV, and it is missing from the English one. After six months, the two versions no longer describe the same person. The solution is to make language a property of the experience, not of the document.

In BidCV, the experience bank stores every field in both languages: project title, role, short and long description, work experience, education and skills. The CV you build picks the fields in the language you choose for the delivery.

Automatic translation of the whole CV

New in BidCV: in the CV builder you can translate the whole CV into the other language with one click. The feature takes the headline, summary and all selected content – projects, work experience, education and skills – and fills in the missing language version.

• Only fields missing text in the target language are translated – text you wrote yourself is never overwritten
• Translations are saved to the experience bank, so the next CV in the same language is ready with no extra work
• Technical terms and standards such as ISO 27001, NIS2 and Scrum are kept unchanged
• You can edit everything afterwards – the translation is a starting point, not a locked deliverable

How to do it in practice

• Build the CV as usual and select the content to include
• Choose the delivery language under “CV language”
• Click “Translate entire CV” – progress is shown while the content is filled in
• Read through the summary at the end: it is the text the evaluator reads first, and deserves a final polish

What you should check yourself

Automatic translation does most of the work, but some things need a human: Norwegian institution and agency names should be briefly explained for an international reader, job titles do not always have a direct English counterpart, and quantified results should be checked so units and currency are still correct.