Two templates you can copy and keep
A German CV and a covering letter, already laid out correctly. Copy them into your own Google Drive, fill them in, and change them whenever you like — they stay yours.
There are two documents. You need both — an employer expects a letter and a CV, and the letter is the one that decides whether they read the CV.
Both are free, and always will be. Nobody may charge you for a template, for filling one in, or for "checking" it. If someone offers to write your Bewerbung for a fee, that is a service you can refuse and still apply perfectly well. What you should pay for, and what you should not.
Take your own copy
Tap a button. Google will ask whether you want to make a copy — say yes. That puts your own private version into your own Google Drive.
You need a Google account, and you cannot damage the original — everyone gets a clean copy. Once it is yours:
- It saves as you type. You will never lose your work or retype it.
- You can open it on a phone, a friend's laptop, or a computer at an institute — it is the same document.
- You can share it with your German teacher and let them correct it directly. This is the single most useful thing you can do with it, and it is why these are Google Docs rather than a form on this website.
- When it is ready: File → Download → PDF. Send the PDF, never the Doc link.
If you have no Google account
Download the Word versions instead. They open in Microsoft Word, LibreOffice and most phone office apps, and nothing is tracked when you download them.
| Document | What it is | Download |
|---|---|---|
| Lebenslauf | The tabular German CV, every section already in the right order | Lebenslauf-Vorlage.docx |
| Anschreiben | The covering letter, with the four paragraphs laid out and what each is for | Anschreiben-Vorlage.docx |
What is inside them
The CV template is laid out the way a German employer expects to read one, and it includes three things worth knowing about.
A Profil at the top. Two or three factual sentences: who you are, which trade you want, your German level, when you are free. A short profile like this has become normal in German CVs and is valued by most hiring managers — and it is worth most to someone with little work history, because it is the only place you can say what your dates cannot. Write it last, once everything else is filled in.
A photo you can swap for your own. There is a grey placeholder picture beside your name. Tap it, choose Replace image → Upload from computer, and pick your photo — it keeps the right size and position automatically. In Germany a photo is not required and an employer may not insist on one, but it is still usual in many industries, so it is your choice: if you would rather not have one, tap the placeholder and delete it. Nothing about your application gets weaker.
If you do use one: head and shoulders, plain background, ordinary clothes. Not a selfie, and not your passport photo.
A line for a video introduction. This is the part almost nobody sends. Sixty seconds of you speaking German, saying who you are and why you want this trade, uploaded to Google Drive or YouTube as unlisted, with the link in your CV. An employer who has never met you is quietly wondering whether you can really hold a conversation in German; a minute of video settles that in a way no certificate can. If the video is careless, do not send it — none is better than a bad one.
There is no signature line, on purpose. You will be sending a PDF from a phone, not printing and signing paper, and a typed name is perfectly normal for a digital application. If an employer ever asks for a signed copy, add it then.
How the templates work
Everything you have to replace is written in [square brackets]. Everything in grey italics is a note to you — advice about what belongs in that spot. Delete the grey notes and the box at the top before you send anything.
Each template opens with a short box of instructions. That box is there to be deleted; it exists so that you are never guessing what a section wants.
If a section does not apply to you, delete the whole section. An honest short CV is better than a padded one, and much better than an invented one.
Do not worry that the template is two pages long when you open it. Most of that is the instructions. Once you have deleted the box at the top and the grey notes, a normal CV comes back to about one page, and the letter to well under one.
Three things the templates will not do for you
They will not write it in German for you. The letter is yours to write. Have your teacher correct it. A B1 letter that is plainly your own is worth far more than a polished one that is plainly not, because the polish disappears the moment someone rings you.
They will not know what to leave out. A German CV omits several things that are completely normal on a Nepali one — marital status, your father's name and occupation, religion or caste, your marks from every year of school. The reason is legal, not cultural: German employers are not allowed to select on most of those grounds. The full list, and why.
They will not find you an employer. That is a separate page, and it is free too.
Before you send
Check four things every time.
- Every date in German order — TT.MM.JJJJ.
- Your telephone number with +977 in front, so it can actually be dialled.
- A plain email address with your name in it.
- The file sent as a PDF, named something like
Bewerbung_Thapa_Bishal.pdf— never a photograph of a screen.
Send everything as one PDF, not ten separate files — letter, CV, then your certificates, most recent first. And do not attach a copy of your passport at this stage. What to attach, what to leave out, and how to make one PDF on your phone.
Then send the letter and the CV together, in one email, to a named person if you can find one.