Professional résumé

A 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.

What this layout usually means

  • One column, conservative type, generous margins
  • A contact block of plain text under the name, sometimes in two short lines
  • Standard headings, occasionally with Certifications and Licences broken out
  • No colour beyond black, and no graphics at all

What happens when a machine reads it

Not an opinion about design. These are the things a text extractor does with a page, and you can watch ours do them to your own file at the bottom of this page.

The two-column contact block
The one place this layout uses a table. Usually harmless because it is two or three short lines, but if the table is wide the email and phone can be read in the wrong order and glued together.
Text in headers and footers
Some professional templates put contact details or a page number in the page header. Extraction often drops headers and footers entirely, so contact details placed there can vanish.

Reads cleanly

A good choice, and effectively the simple format with better typography. Keep the contact details in the body rather than the page header.

Write one instead

Our builder writes the structure above, exports as PDF, Word or plain text, and shows you what a parser reads back as you type. Free, no account, and the download is not the paywall.

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Or check the one you have

Drop it here and see the text a screening system gets — which sections it finds, which it loses, and what it decides you do for a living. Read in this tab; nothing is uploaded.

Your file is read by code running in this tab. It is never sent anywhere, and we never see it. Open your browser’s network tab and drop it again — you will see no upload.