Classic Serif
Early career and schoolGaramond. Conservative industries, and the safest all-purpose choice.
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Twenty resume templates, yours to keep
Four career stages, five layouts each. Real Word files that open in Word, Pages, Google Docs or LibreOffice, fully editable, with no text boxes and nothing locked.
Every bracket is a blank for you to fill. Work through them, delete the sections you cannot fill honestly, and you have a resume. Then run it through a scan to see how it reads against the job you actually want.
Sidebar Professional
Early career and schoolTwo columns, and the only one of the five that fits one page at every stage.
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Executive Banner
Early career and schoolA dark name banner and shaded section bars. High impact, still formal.
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Modern Minimal
Early career and schoolLetter-spaced caps and plenty of white space, with no heavy rules.
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Formal Traditional
Early career and schoolBook typography. Double rules and centred small caps.
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Classic Serif
Mid careerGaramond. Conservative industries, and the safest all-purpose choice.
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Sidebar Professional
Mid careerTwo columns, and the only one of the five that fits one page at every stage.
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Executive Banner
Mid careerA dark name banner and shaded section bars. High impact, still formal.
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Modern Minimal
Mid careerLetter-spaced caps and plenty of white space, with no heavy rules.
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Formal Traditional
Mid careerBook typography. Double rules and centred small caps.
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Classic Serif
Late careerGaramond. Conservative industries, and the safest all-purpose choice.
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Sidebar Professional
Late careerTwo columns, and the only one of the five that fits one page at every stage.
DownloadOne layout table
Executive Banner
Late careerA dark name banner and shaded section bars. High impact, still formal.
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Modern Minimal
Late careerLetter-spaced caps and plenty of white space, with no heavy rules.
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Formal Traditional
Late careerBook typography. Double rules and centred small caps.
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Classic Serif
ExecutiveGaramond. Conservative industries, and the safest all-purpose choice.
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Sidebar Professional
ExecutiveTwo columns, and the only one of the five that fits one page at every stage.
DownloadOne layout table
Executive Banner
ExecutiveA dark name banner and shaded section bars. High impact, still formal.
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Modern Minimal
ExecutiveLetter-spaced caps and plenty of white space, with no heavy rules.
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Formal Traditional
ExecutiveBook typography. Double rules and centred small caps.
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The single-column layouts read most reliably in applicant tracking systems. Sidebar Professional uses one layout table for its column, which modern parsers handle and old ones can mis-order, so send a single-column one if a posting makes a point of its ATS.