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Classic
The builder calls this the safe default: one column, the system UI face, capital-letter section headings above a hairline, and generous margins. Nothing on the page asks to be looked at twice, which is why it is first in the set and the one most people end up on.
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
- classic
- Sheet
- Letter, 8.5 × 11 in
- Margins
- 0.6 in on all four sides
- Body
- 11.50 pt, 1.32 line height
- Face
- System UI, web-safe. The reference face, at its own point size.
- Line length
- 76 characters, about 38 em, capped and centred
- Name
- 22.43 pt
- Section headings
- Capitals, 13.80 pt, 0.10 em tracking, over a 0.60 pt rule
- Section gap
- 14 pt. Entry gap 7 pt.
- Bullets
- Filled disc, 1.84 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
- #232936, changeable in Design
- Colour
- Colour allowed. A mono printer greys the accent; the rules still carry the structure.
What it is for
Good at
- A screener with forty resumes on the desk. Nothing here has to be decoded.
- Anything that extracts text: one column of ordinary paragraphs, headings standing alone on their own line.
- Careers with room to breathe. The margins are wide and the type is not competing for attention.
- Photocopies, which is still how a lot of hiring happens.
Bad at
- Anyone who expects the layout to say something about you. It says nothing, which is a fair trade and not always the right one.
- Long careers. Fifteen years of relevant work runs to two pages, and the temptation is to shrink the type rather than cut the job.
- Creative fields where the format is normally part of the pitch.
- Markets with their own house styles. Public sector and academic applications have conventions this does not follow.
ATS profile
Clean
One column, no tables, no text boxes, nothing in a page header or footer, no images, and a section heading in the same place in every section.
That is worth stating precisely, because Greenhouse publishes a named list of the formatting that causes a failed or partial parse, and a columned layout and a photo are both on it. This template has neither.
What no layout can do is make a parse correct. The same page makes the point that a parse can be partial and that no vendor publishes an accuracy figure. This page will not invent one.
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.
Mira Oyelaran
Operations Manager
- mira.oyelaran@example.com
- +1 555 014 2218
- Portland, Oregon
Profile
Operations manager, nine years in food distribution. Owns inbound, cross-dock and outbound across a three-site operation.
Experience
Northwind Logistics Inc.
2021 – Present
Operations Manager · Portland, OR
- Rebuilt cross-dock scheduling; trailer turnaround fell from 51 to 34 minutes.
- Barcode receiving cut dock-to-stock errors 22% in two quarters.
- Hired and trained nine dispatchers; annual turnover fell to 4%.
Cascade Freight Systems
2018 – 2021
Shift Supervisor · Portland, OR
- Led 34 people across two shifts with no lost-time incident.
- Cut overtime 18% by forecasting labour to the hourly dock queue.
Willamette Supply Co-operative
2016 – 2018
Dispatch Coordinator · Salem, OR
- Dispatched 220 loads a week for a 40-member co-operative.
Education
Oregon State University
2014 – 2018
B.S. Business Administration
Skills
- Methods
- Cross-dock scheduling, dock design, slotting
- Systems
- Blue Yonder WMS, Excel, Power Query
Use this template
Opens the builder on Classic 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 Classic in the builder
The draft is written to this browser and nowhere else. No account, no upload, no analytics.
Opens the builder at #template=classic