Guide
English or Hindi resume — which should you send?
There is no single correct language for every vacancy in India. The safer default is the language the employer used to describe the role — and the language you can actually speak in an interview.
Read the job notice first
If the posting, form, or email is in English, send an English resume unless they asked for Hindi. If the notice is in Hindi and the office works in Hindi, a Hindi resume (or Hindi plus English contact details) is often a better fit. When both languages appear, pick the one you will use on a call.
What MeraCV actually switches
The Hindi setting changes the builder chrome and the printed section headings. It does not rewrite your experience bullets. If you type English sentences with Hindi labels, the PDF will show Hindi headings and English body text. That mix is fine if you chose it on purpose. It looks accidental if you did not.
When English is usually enough
- Campus placements, IT, and most roles that interview in English.
- Applications you will upload to a portal that already runs in English.
- Work where your writing sample should match how you will write on the job.
When Hindi is worth doing well
- Local or state-facing jobs that wrote the vacancy in Hindi.
- Roles where you will speak Hindi with customers or colleagues every day.
- A version you can actually proofread. A weak machine translation is worse than a clear English page.
Names, numbers, and Devanagari
Write names and addresses the way you use them on ID and in email. Devanagari in the PDF is meant to display. Copy-paste, search, and some ATS text extraction of Hindi are not guaranteed — that is a known limit of how the file is built, not a ranking score.
Keep one honest version per language you truly use. Do not send a Hindi file to an English-only desk just to look local, and do not send English to a Hindi-only desk just because a template defaulted that way.