Template 03 of 59
Compact
The densest page in the set, and the one built for a specific problem: a long career that has to stay on one sheet. It gets there by being honest about it. Smaller type, a wider measure than any other one-column template here, tighter gaps and a half-inch trim.
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
- compact
- Sheet
- Letter, 8.5 × 11 in
- Margins
- 0.45 in on all four sides
- Body
- 10.67 pt, 1.24 line height
- Face
- Helvetica, web-safe. Corrected for optical size: 10 pt of Helvetica reads like 10.5 pt of the system face.
- Line length
- 86 characters, about 43 em, capped and centred
- Name
- 20.80 pt
- Section headings
- Capitals, 12.80 pt, 0.10 em tracking, over a 0.60 pt rule
- Section gap
- 10 pt. Entry gap 5.33 pt.
- Bullets
- Filled disc, 1.71 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, 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
- Thirty years of relevant work that you would rather not put on two pages.
- Large employers with a long, form-heavy application process, where a short document is a shorter process.
- Black and white printing. The builder already treats this preset as print-safe.
- A screener who will read the whole thing if it is on one page and skim it if it is not.
Bad at
- Comfortable reading. Ten and two thirds point Helvetica on a wide measure is a page you read once and then do not enjoy.
- Anything visual. There is nothing here to look at, and that is the design, not an oversight.
- Printers that do not handle a 0.45 inch trim cleanly. The margin is at the low end of what office printers are built for.
- Anyone who needs generous space to write notes on a printout.
ATS profile
Clean
One column, no tables, no images, headings alone on their line. Every item on the published failure list is absent.
The density is the risk, and it is a reading risk rather than a parsing one. A parser that extracts ten and two thirds point Helvetica is reading the same text as a parser reading eleven point Arial.
The trade is explicit: a measure wider than the house default, which buys the page at the cost of the line length. The guide on quantifying impact is more useful here than any layout change.
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.
Alan Reyes
Staff Accountant
- alan.reyes@example.com
- +1 512 555 0177
- Austin, Texas
Experience
Harlow & Reyes LLP
2020 – Present
Staff Accountant · Austin, TX
- Lead auditor on fourteen year-end engagements, no restatements.
- Automated the fixed-asset register, saving about 60 hours a year.
Brightline Manufacturing
2017 – 2020
Senior Accountant · Round Rock, TX
- Owned the month-end close for three entities on a six-day cycle.
Cedar Park Energy Partners
2014 – 2017
Financial Analyst · Austin, TX
- Rebuilt the plant-level cost model; variance reporting went from monthly to weekly.
Dunhill & Pratt
2010 – 2014
Staff Accountant · Austin, TX
- First reconciler on a 30-site property portfolio.
Travis & Cole, Austin, TX
2005 – 2010
Group Accountant
- Owned the statutory reporting pack for four entities.
Skills
- Software
- NetSuite, Sage, SQL
- Standards
- US GAAP, ASC 606
Education
University of Texas at Austin
2006 – 2010
B.B.A. Accounting
Professional
- CPA, Texas, 2011
- Member, AICPA Central Texas
Systems
- Reporting
- NetSuite, CaseWare, Excel
- Reporting
- Hyperion, SAP B/1
Use this template
Opens the builder on Compact 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 Compact in the builder
The draft is written to this browser and nowhere else. No account, no upload, no analytics.
Opens the builder at #template=compact