Classic
One column, no ornament. The safe default, and the hardest to get wrong.
Six resume templates, all ATS-safe
They differ in where the ink sits, not in whether a parser can read them. No tables, no text inside images, no columns that scramble the reading order when the text is extracted. Switching between them never touches a word you wrote — pick one, change your mind later, and the content is untouched.
Modern
A large name, generous spacing, and accent rules between sections.
Compact
The most content per page, without shrinking the type to nothing.
Executive
A restrained serif with small caps and hairline rules.
Accent
Clean sans-serif with one colour used deliberately.
Sidebar
Two columns, with contact details and skills in a rail.
What makes a template ATS-safe
An applicant tracking system does not look at your resume; it looks at the text it managed to pull out of the file. Almost every “my resume got rejected by a robot” story is really an extraction failure — the system read something other than what you wrote, and then matched against that. Four things cause most of it:
- Text inside an image. A logo, a header graphic, or a resume exported as a picture. There is no text to extract, so you score zero on everything.
- Tables used for layout. Extraction walks cells in an order that often has nothing to do with reading order, so dates end up attached to the wrong job.
- Headers and footers. Some parsers drop them entirely. Contact details put there can vanish.
- Unconventional section names. “Where I've Been” instead of “Experience”. A human understands it; a parser looking for a known heading does not.
None of the six do any of that. Worth being honest about the limit, though: a safe template gets your words read correctly. It cannot make them the right words for the job — that is what checking your resume against the posting is for.
Use any of them free
Import your existing PDF or build one from scratch, then switch templates as often as you like. Editing and exporting to PDF, Word or plain text are unmetered on every plan — only AI tailoring has a monthly limit, and that is 5 a month free.