Templates
Five resume templates, all single-column
Every one of them renders here exactly as it exports. They differ in type, rule and header, never in what a parser reads or the order it reads it.
The templates
Each preview below is drawn by the same engine that draws your live preview and exports your PDF, so what you see is what downloads. Pick one now or change it later; the choice is a setting on the document, not a decision you are stuck with.
Standard
Full-width rules under every section heading, and nothing else competing for attention. If you are not sure, this is the one; it is the default for the same reason.
Phalanx
Headings centred over a left-aligned body. The centre line gives the page a spine without adding a single graphic element.
Banner
A colour band behind your name at the top, then the same clean column underneath. The accent does the work a logo would.
Chronicle
A dated rail down the left of your experience, so a reader follows the sequence of your career before they read a word of it.
Crest
Your initials set as a monogram above the header. Quiet, and it reads as senior without saying so.
Why all five are safe to send
A resume template can break an applicant tracking system in two well-documented ways: multiple columns, which make a parser read across a line that was never meant to be read across, and text locked inside an image or a text box, which a parser cannot read at all. None of these five does either. All five are one column, and every character on them is real text.
The useful part is that this is checkable rather than promised. Converting any resume to plain text, which is roughly what a parser sees, produces a byte-identical result in all five templates. Changing template changes what a person sees and nothing about what a machine reads. That is asserted by a test on every build, not reviewed by eye.
What no template can do is tell you how a particular employer has configured its system. Nobody outside that employer can, including us, and any tool that puts a pass-or-fail number on it is guessing.
Four accents
One colour decision, applied to headings and rules. Not a colour picker: an arbitrary hex is how a document ends up in a colour nobody chose, and a resume should look like it came from somewhere.
- Ink navy
- Cape red
- Bronze
- Ink only
Where the template stops mattering
Templates are the easiest part of a resume to shop for and the smallest part of whether it works. A clean single column with the right words on it beats a beautiful one describing the wrong job. If you only do one thing after picking a template, aim the content at the posting you are actually applying to. The tailoring guide covers how, and the resume examples by role show what the work looks like written down for over 800 occupations.
Building, scoring and exporting a resume in any of these templates is free, and does not ask for a card.