Paper resume template

Choose it for large corporate career sites, government portals and recruitment agencies, where software parses your resume before a person reads it. It also suits fields that value substance over styling, such as finance, engineering and healthcare, and prints crisply even in black and white.

Your name is set large in a clean sans serif, with a bold dark-gray headline and every contact detail on one line beneath it. Headings are small, letter-spaced capitals. Job titles are bold and dates align right. Skills are plain text separated by dots under their group names.

• No photo, color or icons: nothing for a parser to trip over
• Contact details on one line under a bold headline
• Skills as plain text, grouped by type

Paper stays close to a plain-text resume: no photo, images or icons, nothing outside the main flow. That leaves applicant tracking systems (ATS) very little to misread, and because skills are ordinary words, keyword matching works on them directly. Use standard section names so each part is filed correctly.

• Mirror the job ad's wording in your skills and bullets; with so little decoration, words do all the work.
• Keep one Paper version as your master resume and tailor a copy for each application.