The technical traps: bidirectional text (Latin tool names and numbers inside Arabic sentences) breaks in careless conversions, mirrored layouts must actually mirror (dates, bullets, margins), and RTL PDFs exported from LTR-default tools often scramble. The judgment call of when to send Arabic versus English is its own topic, covered with decision rules by country and employer type in the Arabic vs English CV guide. Yalliq maintains both language versions from one profile and exports proper RTL PDFs.
Arabic CV (RTL Formatting)
An Arabic CV is a natively written, right-to-left formatted CV in Modern Standard Arabic, expected by government entities and Saudi-majority organizations. It is not a translated English CV: register, layout direction, and conventions differ, and machine-translated CVs are instantly recognizable to Arabic-speaking recruiters.
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Adil Dahmani
Adil Dahmani is the founder of Yalliq, the AI career copilot for Arabic-speaking professionals across MENA.