Translation isn't enough
Translating a Chinese resume sentence by sentence rarely produces something that reads like an English resume. The gap is convention rather than vocabulary.
Personal details are drawn differently. Chinese resumes commonly carry a photo, age, hometown, and marital status. Resumes aimed at US or European employers usually carry none of these; in some countries recruiters actively avoid them for anti-discrimination reasons. An English resume typically shows a name, contact details, and a city.
Experience is phrased differently. Chinese resumes tend to describe scope of responsibility. English resumes tend to lead with a verb and state an outcome: "Built a design system used by 40+ engineers." The second form pushes toward results and numbers.
Length expectations differ. For candidates without long careers, one page is the common English expectation. Chinese resumes are less sensitive to page count.
Date formats differ. 2022-03 — Present or Mar 2022 — Present in English; a different convention in Chinese.
What the resume language setting does
The editor has a resume language setting. It controls the fixed labels on the resume itself — whether the section heading reads "Experience" or its Chinese equivalent, whether an open-ended date reads "Present" or its Chinese equivalent.
It does not translate what you wrote. Company names, job titles, descriptions — all left exactly as entered.
That's deliberate. Whether a sentence should be translated, and how, is your call. Whether a bullet point should be rewritten for a different market's conventions is a judgment a machine can't make for you.
If you need both languages
The usual approach is two separate resumes, not one resume with a language toggle.
An account holds a single resume, so the editor shows one version at a time. What works today: finish one language, export it as a PDF or print it, then rewrite the content in the editor for the other. Keep the two exported files wherever you keep the rest of your job-search documents, and your address shows whichever version you last saved.
Export differences
One-click PDF download currently supports English content only. Non-Latin resumes go through the browser's print dialog, which produces a PDF for any layout. The reason is font size: embedding a CJK typeface makes the file heavy and generation slow, and we didn't want to pay that cost.
This affects how you export, not how you write, preview, or share.
Does layout choice differ by language
Not by rule — all four layouts work in either language.
One thing is worth knowing: Chinese characters pack more information into the same column width than Latin script does. A two-column layout therefore fills up faster in Chinese, and a single column often reads better once there's a lot of content.