General Resume Templates

This is the full gallery. Every template here parses cleanly, so the choice is about how much you have to say and how senior you are, not about tricking a robot. Three questions narrow it fast. Do you have a long skills list you want visible up top? Are you three years in or fifteen? Do you want the page to look plain or a little designed? Answer those and one of the eight below fits.

Safest default: ATS Clean is single column and recruiter-friendly. Pick it when you want zero decisions and zero risk. ATS Minimal does the same with a centered masthead and a slate accent if you want a little more polish for the same safety.

Need a skills sidebar: ATS Two-Column Classic is the only real two- column layout in the gallery. Main column left, sidebar right for skills, languages, and awards. Use it when your stack list is long and you want it scannable without pushing your experience down the page.

Mid-level with a designed feel: Modern Minimal keeps a warm header band and splits each experience row, company on the left and role on the right. Modern Slate adds horizontal section rules and a cyan accent for a more structured look. Modern Slate is strictly single column; Modern Minimal splits company and role across a single experience line, which parses cleanly in practice.

Senior or executive: Executive Split puts your name on the left and your contact block on the right under a clean split header, which reads well when your title already carries weight.

More editorial: Editorial Balance and Centerline both center their section dividers for a polished, balanced page. Centerline leans fully centered. Reach for either when your content is tight and you want it to feel considered rather than plain.

Seven of the eight are single column, the format every parser reads in the right order, top to bottom. The exception is ATS Two-Column Classic. Older parsers can read a two-column page column by column, which risks interleaving your sidebar skills with your job titles. Modern systems handle it fine, but if the employer runs a legacy applicant tracking system, prefer single column. Whatever you pick, run it through the ATS score before you send it, tailor your base resume to each posting, and export as selectable-text PDF so nothing you wrote is trapped in an image.