Free Resume Templates
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- Recruiter-approved layouts
- Passes ATS scanners
- Clean, modern design
- Free PDF download
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Turn your experience into a clean, recruiter-ready résumé in minutes. Upload an existing CV or start from scratch, optionally paste the job posting you are applying for, and your wording is shaped to match that role. Download the finished CV as a PDF — and generate a matching cover letter — free, with no account and no credit card.
Tailored to the job
Paste a job description or URL and your CV is rewritten around the skills that posting asks for, so recruiters see the match immediately.
ATS-friendly formatting
A clear, parseable structure that applicant tracking systems can read without losing content, so your application reaches a human reviewer.
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How it works: upload your current CV or start fresh, check your details, add the role you are targeting, then preview and download your finished CV.
Why most downloadable templates hurt you
Search for résumé templates and you'll find two-column documents with sidebars, skill rating dots, icons for phone and email, and a photo circle. They look impressive in a preview and parse badly in practice, because everything decorative competes with the text a screening system needs to read.
The templates here go the other way. One column, real headings, selectable text, no graphics carrying information. The visual interest comes from typography and spacing, which cost nothing at parsing time.
- Single-column body so reading order is unambiguous
- Standard headings: Profile, Experience, Education, Skills
- Contact details in the body, never in the page header
- Consistent month-year date format throughout
- Skill levels written as words, not dots or bars
Choosing a layout for your situation
Reverse-chronological suits almost everyone with a continuous work history and is what recruiters expect by default. A skills-led arrangement helps career changers and people returning after a break, because it puts capability above the timeline. Graduates need a layout that lifts education and projects above short-term jobs.
Rather than picking a file and fighting it in Word, you fill in your content once here and the spacing, page breaks and hierarchy resolve themselves on export.
Sample: the section order that recruiters expect
Two orders for the same content, depending on where you are in your career.
Experienced professional
- Contact → Profile → Experience → Skills → Education → Languages
Graduate or career changer
- Contact → Profile → Skills → Education & Projects → Experience → Languages
The strongest evidence goes above the fold; the rest follows.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I edit the template in Word afterwards?
- The export is a finished PDF. Edits are made here in the form and re-exported, which keeps the spacing and page breaks intact.
- Is a creative template ever a good idea?
- For design and art direction roles applied to directly, yes — usually as a portfolio alongside a plain CV. For anything routed through a recruiter or a job board, keep it plain.
- Are the templates free to use commercially?
- They're free for your own job applications, with no watermark and no attribution required.
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