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Academic
A curriculum vitae, not a resume. Serif throughout, the widest margins in the set, square bullets, a rule under every section heading, and a body size large enough to be comfortable. Built for the shape a publication list expects.
The numbers
Every figure below is a value in the template registry the builder ships (assets/js/render/templates.js), or a size derived from it by the same multipliers the document stylesheet uses. Body text is not the preset’s nominal point size: it is that figure corrected for the face’s optical size, which is why a 10 pt Helvetica preset renders at 11.73 pt here. Nothing on this page is a measured pass rate or a hiring outcome, because neither exists.
- Builder id
- academic
- Sheet
- Letter, 8.5 × 11 in
- Margins
- 0.9 in on all four sides
- Body
- 12.60 pt, 1.4 line height
- Face
- Times New Roman, web-safe. Corrected for optical size: 11.5 pt of Times New Roman reads like 10.5 pt of the system face.
- Line length
- 74 characters, about 37 em, capped and centred
- Name
- 24.56 pt
- Section headings
- Title case, 15.72 pt, over a 1.08 pt rule
- Section gap
- 13 pt. Entry gap 7 pt.
- Bullets
- Filled square, 2.02 pt between them
- Columns
- One. No column split, and no risk of a misread reading order.
- Arrangement
- The plain stack. Nothing arranged, nothing drawn.
- Photo
- None.
- Accent
- #151a23, forced to near-black by the print-safe setting
- Colour
- Print-safe. No fills, no hue, hairlines thickened for toner.
What it is for
Good at
- Academic and research posts, where the publication list is the document and everything else is context.
- Teaching posts, where a wider measure and larger type are an advantage rather than a cost.
- Applications that ask for a CV. The section order and the rule under every heading are what a departmental reader scans for.
- Print, since the registry already treats this preset as print-safe.
Bad at
- Industry roles, where the format says academy and the reader is looking for delivery.
- Anything with more than one page. The type is the largest here and the margins the widest; two pages of this is four of anything else.
- Fields where industry-standard tools are the proof, because there is no line here for a stack.
- Hiring managers who read a resume as a filtered summary, which is what most of them outside a university actually want.
ATS profile
Clean
One column, no tables, no text boxes, no images, no graphics, and a rule under each heading rather than a heading sharing a line with content.
The rule is a line, not a box. It is a decorative line and parsers read the text above and below it, but it is worth knowing that the more a heading looks like a table cell the more a parser has to guess. This one is a paragraph followed by a border.
Treat it as a clean layout and no more. A CV with three pages of publications is still three pages a reader has to open.
Still yours to get right
A clean layout with a placeholder employer named “Company 1” is still a document a parser discards. No template can fix a sentence that describes effort instead of effect. Start with the resume basics guide and the one on quantifying impact.
Priya Raman
Research Scientist, Environmental Systems
- p.raman@example.edu
- +1 734 555 0193
- University of Michigan
Education
University of Michigan
2016 – 2021
Ph.D. Environmental Engineering · Ann Arbor, MI
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
2014 – 2016
M.S. Civil Engineering
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
2013 – 2016
Research Fellow
- Ran two field seasons on the Huron river basin.
Publications
Research Experience
Delft University of Technology
2021 – 2023
Postdoctoral Fellow
- Built a thirty-station monitoring network across two Dutch estuaries.
Teaching
University of Michigan
2017 – 2021
Graduate Teaching Assistant · Ann Arbor
- Taught the undergraduate water-quality laboratory, 180 students a year.
Grants
National Science Foundation
2020 – 2024
Principal investigator, $480,000
Field methods
- Instruments
- ADCP, CTD casts, sediment cores
- Analysis
- R, Python, hydrological modelling
Use this template
Opens the builder on Academic with the build dialog in front of you. The document on the page is the document that exports; there is no separate form to keep in sync with it.
Open Academic in the builder
The draft is written to this browser and nowhere else. No account, no upload, no analytics.
Opens the builder at #template=academic