Most popular
Clean
example: Product marketingThe safe choice when you do not know what the employer uses. One column, generous spacing, nothing to misread.
Single columnPhoto optionalSkill level graphics
Use the Clean template CV templates that the software can read
Most CVs are rejected before a person sees them. Not for what they say, but because the file could not be read: a two-column layout parsed in the wrong order, skills trapped in a table, a header the parser skipped entirely.
Every template below renders to the same thing underneath - real selectable text in one defined reading order, standard section headings, no tables, and embedded fonts. Choosing between them is a choice about who is reading, not about whether the file works.
Free to use, no account to lookSwitch template at any time without retypingA4 by default, built for the EU
EU favourite
Sidebar
example: Product designerThe layout most Portuguese and Spanish employers expect to see, with contact details and skills in a panel down the side.
Two columnsPhoto optionalSkill level graphics
Use the Sidebar template USA standard
Harvard
example: Policy researcherBlack and white, no photo, no graphics: the most machine-readable sheet here, and the convention for academia and the US.
Single columnNo photoText only
Use the Harvard template Non-tech
Soft
example: NurseWarmer typography and softer rules, for hospitality, retail, care work, education and creative roles.
Single columnPhoto optionalSkill level graphics
Use the Soft template Senior roles
Executive
example: Chief operating officerFor people whose last three job titles are the argument. More room at the top for a profile and less for everything else.
Single columnPhoto optionalSkill level graphics
Use the Executive template Dev / LaTeX
Technical
example: Backend engineerDense and typographic, close to what a LaTeX CV looks like, with skills and projects above work history.
Single columnNo photoText only
Use the Technical template What ATS-safe means here, and what it cannot mean
Applicant tracking systems are not one piece of software. Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Teamtailor and a dozen smaller systems each parse a PDF differently, and none of them publish how. So nobody can honestly promise your CV will score a particular number in a system they have never seen.
What a template can guarantee is the part that is actually under its control. The text is real text rather than an image, so it can be extracted at all. There is one reading order, so a two-column layout is not interleaved into nonsense. The section headings are the standard ones a parser looks for.Nothing sits in a table, which is the single most common reason skills disappear. The fonts are embedded, so the file renders the same everywhere.
The editor also scores the parts that are about your content rather than the layout - whether your dates can be read, whether your roles are in order, whether your bullets carry any figures - and tells you which is which.
Pick one and start typing
Or upload the CV you already have - a PDF, a Word file, even a photo of a printed one - and it will be read into the editor for you.