33 layouts, all ATS-safe and free to use. Edit yours in the browser and download it as a PDF with no watermark — you can switch templates at any time without losing what you have written.
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A template is doing two jobs at once: making the page readable for a person skimming it in a few seconds, and making the text extractable for the software that reads it first. Most templates on the internet do the first and quietly fail the second.
Choosing a template settles the visual layout: fonts, margins, spacing, colour. It does not settle the structure — whether your resume runs in reverse-chronological order, leads with skills, or combines the two. That is a separate choice, and the right one depends on your work history rather than your taste. Every template here is built around reverse-chronological order, which is the correct default for most people, with room for a skills summary at the top if you want the combination approach.
Modern — clean contemporary typography with restrained accent colour. The safe default for most industries, and the largest group here.
Creative — more visual personality — colour, distinctive headings, decorative detail. Suited to design, marketing and media, where a plain page can read as effort not spent.
Compact — tighter spacing and smaller type, for fitting a longer history onto one page without cramming. Useful past a decade of experience.
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Yes. Every template is free to use and customise, and the free plan includes a watermark-free PDF or TXT download with no card required. Paid plans add AI writing help, cover letters and multiple saved resumes.
No template can promise that, because an ATS scores your content against a job description rather than your layout. What a layout can do is make sure every word is read correctly in the first place, which is what these are built for.
Yes, at any point, and nothing you have written is lost. The content and the design are stored separately, so switching re-renders the same text in a new layout.
Yes. Accent colour, heading font, spacing and section order are all adjustable inside the editor, so two people using the same template can end up with visibly different documents.
Pick a modern single-column one and stop thinking about it. Layout choice matters far less than what you write inside it, and any of these will be read correctly.
For the shorter, tailored document called a CV in the UK and much of Europe, yes. For a full academic CV with a publication list, the structure differs and needs more room than a one-to-two-page layout allows.