Download a free Resume Template for Microsoft Word® and Google Docs
Our free resume templates below are designed to help you prepare a professional resume using Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, or Google Docs. Our Resume Template can be described as 'professional', 'elegant', 'modern', 'classic', or 'contemporary'. It is all those things, but it is also easy to work with. Most importantly, our resume templates don't contain fancy colors or unique formatting styles that might identify your resume as having come from a resume template repository.
Download Tabular Resume Format About Author of the Website: Neetu Singh is the founder of Resume Formats.Neetu Singh holds an Engineering degree in Computer Science with MBA Degree in Finance and Human Resource (HR). Mar 01, 2011 Is Your Resume Hurting or Helping You Get That Interview? Pamela deForce March 1, 2011. Do you know the way you format your resume and the information you include can undo all your time and energy? NEVER – I mean NEVER – use columns or tables. If you use a table or columns in order to make things line up and to avoid a struggle.
We encourage you to read through the resume tips and guidelines for resume writing on Vertex42.com before using any resume template. You should also browse through as many sample resumes as you have time for, especially those related to your field or position. The more resumes you look at, the more ideas you will have for how to craft your own. Even if you only have basic skills with Word, you should be able to recreate almost any professional resume that you find using one of our two templates.
⤓ Download⤓ Google DocsDescription: This resume format uses a table in Microsoft Word (without borders) to place the main section headings (Objective, Experience, Education, etc) in a narrow column on the left-hand side of the resume. This is a very popular method for formatting resumes. The table format can let you have more section headings without using up as much space as the outline format.
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Description: In this resume template, instead of using tables, you use margins, tabs, and indention to format your resume. Lines under the main section headings are recommended. The outline format is often easier to customize and edit and can be converted to a text-only resume fairly easily.
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How to Use our Resume Templates
If something strange happens when you make a change to a format, like everything turning into bullets, immediately press Ctrl+z (undo) to cancel the automated formatting. You might also want to check your AutoCorrection or AutoFormat settings.
I created these templates from scratch using a minimal set of Styles in Microsoft Word. You can modify the Normal style to change the font from Arial to Times New Roman. You can modify the Heading 1 style to change between All Caps, Mixed Case, Small Caps, or to modify the border line. In the Outline Format, the left margins for the Title, Contact Information, and Heading 1 styles are set to -0.25'.
How to Choose a Resume Template
Choosing a resume template is NOT the first step in writing your resume. You shouldn't sift through sample resumes to try to find the best looking resume template and then try to make your details, skills, and qualifications fit a specific format.
When choosing a resume template:
- Avoid unique formats and styles. You should generally avoid anything that will make the employer think that you used a template. Our resume templates are designed using a general style to help avoid this problem.
- Beware of hidden file property information. If you submit your file electronically, file property information may be searchable in a database. The two resume templates above don't contain any hidden file property information. We will just trust that after you delete the note at the top of the template, you will still abide by the terms of use.
- Be aware of scannability. Many templates use italics and underlining, both of which can cause problems when a template is scanned and OCR'd.
- The safest advice might be to only use a resume template to get an idea of how to create your own from scratch.
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Regardless of what type of resume you choose (chronological resume, functional resume, curriculum vitae, etc.), your two main options for laying out the content are either the outline or table format. I have seen nice looking resumes that use both formats within the same file, but you have to be careful to remain consistent and clear.
Disclaimer: The resume templates and the information on this page are for educational purposes only. Your situation is unique and we do not guarantee the applicability of this information to your specific situation.
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A scannable resume is a resume that a person scans into a computer as an image. Because computers read scannable resumes differently than people do, you have to follow certain rules to be fairly sure that your scannable resume will be read as you intended.
A scannable resume may start life as a paper resume that you can postal mail, hand deliver, or fax on a fax machine; the employer uses a scanning machine to enter a hard copy resume into a candidate database. More often these days, you create a scannable resume on your computer and e-mail it to an employer, who electronically enters it directly into a database.
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After an employer has your scannable resume, computer software extracts from it a summary of basic information, pulling out factors like your name, contact information, skills, work history, years of experience, and education. Scanned resumes and their extracted summaries sleep peacefully until an HR specialist or recruiter searches the summaries by keywords to retrieve candidates who match the requirements of a job opening. The technology ranks candidates, from the most qualified to the least qualified. The relevant resumes get a wake-up call and pop to the recruiting screen, where human eyes take over the recruiting tasks.
Scannable resumes are on their way out, in favor of intake systems that allow resumes to travel smoothly online into an electronic resume-management database. But don’t trash your scannable resume just yet. If an employer or job site directs you to send a resume that can be scanned, do it.
Take these steps to prevent scanning errors from putting you on the sidelines:
- Use type that’s clear and readable. Don’t use a condensed typeface. White space separates letters; no space smushes them together. Letters must be distinctively clear with crisp, unbroken edges. Avoid artsy, decorative typefaces.
- Avoid these bad-scan elements:
- Italics or script
- Underlining
- Reverse printing (white letters on a black field)
- Shadows or shading
- Hollow bullets (they read like the letter o)
- Number signs (#) for bullets (the computer may read it as a phone number)
- Boxes (computers try to read them like letters)
- Two-column formats or designs that look like newspapers
- Symbols, such as a logo
- Vertical lines (computers read them like the letter l)
- Vertical dates (use horizontal dates: 2009–2011)
- Feel free to use a larger font for section headings and your name. A font size of 14 to 16 points is good. Larger headings look better on the electronic image of your resume when people read it. As an example, you could format the body of your resume in a 12-point font size, the section headings in 14-point, and the name in 16-point.
- Do keep your scannable resume simple in design and straightforward. Recruiters call this approach “plain vanilla,” and they like it because it doesn’t confuse computers.
- Do send your paper resume without staples. Paper clips are okay. Follow this tip for all resumes that you mail or hand deliver because staples are a pain to pull out before feeding a scanner one page at a time.