miànshìguān zhèngzài kàn jiǎnlì.

正在 marks an action as in progress right now. It is similar to be doing in English.

So:

• 面试官正在看简历。 = The interviewer is reading/looking at the résumé.

It emphasizes that the action is happening at this moment.

Both can mark an ongoing action.

• 面试官正在看简历。
• 面试官在看简历。

Both mean The interviewer is reading the résumé / is looking at the résumé.

The difference is mostly one of emphasis:

• 在 = common, neutral progressive marker
• 正在 = a bit stronger, more explicit: right in the middle of doing

In many everyday sentences, they are interchangeable.

Yes, you can say:

• 面试官看简历。

But the meaning changes slightly. Without 正在, the sentence is more general and could mean:

• The interviewer reads résumés
• The interviewer is looking at a résumé

Chinese often relies on context, so 正在 is helpful when you want to clearly show the action is happening right now.

This follows the normal Mandarin pattern:

Subject + time/aspect marker + verb + object

So here:

• 面试官 = subject
• 正在 = progressive marker
• 看 = verb
• 简历 = object

A very common structure is:

Subject + 在/正在 + Verb + Object

Examples:

• 我正在吃饭。 = I am eating.
• 她正在写邮件。 = She is writing an email.

面试官 means interviewer.

It can be broken down like this:

• 面试 = interview
• 官 = official / officer / person in a role

In modern usage, 面试官 is a fixed word meaning the person who conducts the interview.

Even though 官 historically relates to officials, in this word you should just learn 面试官 as a whole vocabulary item meaning interviewer.

Here it can mean either look at or read, depending on context.

看 is a very broad verb in Chinese. It can mean:

• to look
• to watch
• to read
• to examine

With 简历 (résumé/CV), 看 usually means something like:

• look over
• read
• review

So 面试官正在看简历 naturally means the interviewer is reviewing the résumé.

简历 usually means résumé or CV.

Literally:

• 简 = brief
• 历 = experience/history

In modern Chinese, 简历 is the standard word for the document that lists your education, work experience, skills, and so on.

In many contexts, English speakers translate it as résumé, though sometimes CV is also fine depending on the situation.

Mandarin does not use articles like English does.

So 面试官 can mean:

• the interviewer
• an interviewer

And 简历 can mean:

• the résumé
• a résumé
• résumés in some contexts

The exact meaning depends on context.

In this sentence, English usually translates it as The interviewer is reading the résumé because that sounds natural, but Chinese does not explicitly mark the.

By itself, 简历 does not clearly show singular or plural.

So it could mean:

• a résumé
• the résumé
• résumés

Context tells you which one is intended.

If Chinese needs to be more specific, it can add numbers or other words, for example:

• 一份简历 = one résumé
• 几份简历 = several résumés

In your sentence, English would often use singular, but plural is not impossible in the right context.

Measure words are used when a noun is being counted or specified with a demonstrative.

For example:

• 一份简历 = one résumé
• 这份简历 = this résumé

But in 面试官正在看简历, the noun is just a direct object with no number or demonstrative, so no measure word is needed.

That is completely normal.

Yes. That is completely natural.

• 面试官正在看简历。
• 面试官在看简历。

Both are correct.

The version with 正在 sounds a little more explicitly focused on the ongoing action. The version with just 在 is a little simpler and very common in speech.

If you want to say The interviewer is not reading the résumé, a natural way is:

• 面试官没在看简历。

You may also hear:

• 面试官没有在看简历。

If you say:

• 面试官没看简历。

that usually means The interviewer didn’t read / hasn’t read the résumé, which is not exactly the same as is not reading it right now.

So for the ongoing negative idea, 没在 + verb is a useful pattern.

Yes, you can say:

• 面试官正在看简历呢。

The final 呢 often makes the sentence sound more immediate or vivid, like:

• The interviewer is reading the résumé right now.

It is especially common in conversation when describing what is happening at the moment.

Without 呢, the sentence is still perfectly correct and neutral.

The pinyin and tones are:

• 面试官 — miànshìguān
• 正在 — zhèngzài
• 看 — kàn
• 简历 — jiǎnlì

Tone-wise:

• 面 = 4th tone
• 试 = 4th tone
• 官 = 1st tone
• 正 = 4th tone
• 在 = 4th tone
• 看 = 4th tone
• 简 = 3rd tone
• 历 = 4th tone

There is no especially tricky tone change in this sentence, but several 4th tones occur close together, so learners often need to practice saying it smoothly.