Résumé formats, ranked by what survives
Template galleries sort layouts by how they look. This sorts them by how much of your text reaches the other side, which is the only ordering that changes an outcome.
- Reads cleanlySimpleOne column, ordinary section names, no graphics. It is the least fashionable layout in the category and the only one whose text arrives intact at the other end.
- Reads cleanlyProfessionalA single column, a serif face, a rule under each heading and nothing else. It is the format law, finance and healthcare expect, and it happens to be the one that extracts cleanly.
- Reads cleanlyPopularThe four layouts most people pick, in the order a machine would rank them — which is close to the reverse of the order a template gallery displays them in.
- Usable with careModernA colour band across the top, a sans-serif face, and — in most of them — a narrow column down one side for skills and contact details. Two of those three are harmless.
- Usable with carePremiumA paid template buys typography, spacing and a licence. None of the three is visible to the system that reads your file first, and some of what comes with them is actively costly.
- Loses textCreativeIcons instead of labels, bars instead of sentences, two or three columns instead of one. Every one of those swaps a word a machine can search for something it cannot.
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