How to Share Your CV With a Public Link

You can share any CV on EZCV as a public web page instead of attaching a file. Open your Dashboard, click Share on a CV card, and toggle Public Access: you get a link anyone can open in a browser, with no account and no download. Every CV is private until you do this, and you can turn it off at any time. A link works where a file attachment does not, such as a LinkedIn profile, an email signature, or an application form that only accepts a URL. It also always shows your current version, so fixing a typo updates the page for everyone who has the link rather than leaving an old PDF in someone's inbox. The public page uses the same template, colour theme and font as your PDF export, so the version someone opens in a browser matches the one you send as a file.

Publishing a CV

1. Go to your Dashboard.
2. Click the Share button on a CV card.
3. Toggle "Public Access" in the Public Sharing Settings modal.
4. You will be given a unique, secure URL that you can share with anyone.

Choosing your link

Free accounts get an auto-generated random address, for example /p/a1b2c3d4e5. It is unguessable, which is the point: nobody finds your CV by typing likely words into the address bar. Supporters can choose one custom slug for their primary CV, for example /p/yourname, and any other public CVs keep random addresses. The practical difference is what the link looks like when a person reads it rather than clicks it. A random string is fine pasted into a form, but a link in an email signature or on a business card is read by a human before it is clicked, and /p/yourname reads as deliberate where /p/a1b2c3d4e5 reads as machine output. Both work identically, so this is presentation rather than capability.

Controlling search engine indexing

When your CV is public you decide separately whether search engines may index it. Public and indexable are not the same thing: by default your page is reachable by anyone holding the link but is not submitted for indexing, which suits most people applying for jobs quietly. Turning indexing on adds the page to this site's sitemap so Google and Bing can discover it, which is what you want if you would like the CV findable by your name.

1. Open the Public Sharing Settings modal
2. Toggle "Search Engine Indexing" on or off
3. When enabled, your CV is added to our sitemap and may appear in search results over time

Note: Indexing is never immediate. Search engines take time to discover new pages, so a CV published today will not appear in results today.

Making a CV private again

Toggle Public Access off in the same modal and the page stops being served immediately. There is no waiting period and no separate delete step. Anyone who kept the old link gets nothing rather than a stale copy of your CV, which matters if the link went into an application you would now rather retract. Worth knowing: your address is kept, not discarded. If you make the same CV public again later it is served at the same link as before, so an address you shared once will start working again rather than being replaced by a new one. Treat a link you have shared as permanent for that CV. If a CV was indexed by a search engine while it was public, unpublishing removes the page, but the search engine may take time to drop it from its results, which is worth knowing before publishing a CV that names a current employer.