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Counsel
For bar admissions, clerkships and in-house counsel, where the CV is read by a panel expecting a formal document rather than a personal one. A classical serif at a 12pt optical size, a centred name block with the photograph beside it, a rule under every heading, and A4. The education and honours sections get the air a panel expects them to be given, on a page that is otherwise dense with matter.
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
- counsel
- Sheet
- A4, 8.27 × 11.69 in
- Margins
- 0.9 in on all four sides
- Body
- 11.46 pt, 1.4 line height
- Face
- Garamond, web-safe. Corrected for optical size: 9.4 pt of Garamond reads like 10.5 pt of the system face.
- Line length
- 72 characters, about 36 em, capped and centred
- Name
- 22.35 pt
- Section headings
- Title case, 14.30 pt, over a 1.30 pt rule
- Section gap
- 14 pt. Entry gap 7 pt.
- Bullets
- Filled square, 1.83 pt between them
- Columns
- One. No column split, and no risk of a misread reading order.
- Arrangement
- header set center.
- Photo
- Slot in the header, empty until you add a picture.
- Accent
- #151a23, changeable in Design
- Colour
- Colour allowed. A mono printer greys the accent; the rules still carry the structure.
What it is for
Good at
- Parsed applications: one column, no tables, no images, and a heading alone on its own line.
- Garamond, which is a reading face rather than a scanning one, at 11.46 pt.
- A page size of A4, which is what most of the mail in that country is.
Bad at
- A reader who wants the layout to say something about them. It is a document, not a signal.
- Screens, where a serif at 11.46 pt is a page people scroll past rather than read.
- Employers that ask for no photograph, where the slot is a page that is just longer.
- Printing on the other sheet, which is one click in the builder and usually stays wrong.
- A house style of your own: this preset is the builder’s, not your organisation’s.
ATS profile
Clean
Structurally this is the plain case: one column, no tables, no text boxes, no images, and a section heading standing alone on its own line. Nothing on the published failure lists applies.
What no layout can do is make a parse correct. The ATS guide is blunt about this, and no vendor publishes an accuracy figure, so 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.
Alex Moreau
Operations Lead
- alex.moreau@example.com
- +1 617 555 0155
- Boston, Massachusetts
Profile
A classical Garamond CV: centred name, photograph, A4, ruled. Nine years across distribution and light manufacturing, most of it spent on the unglamorous half of the job: getting a forecast, a rota and a supplier to agree with each other.
Experience
Harbourline Group
2020 – Present
Operations Lead · Boston, MA
- Rebuilt a weekly reporting process that two managers had been doing by hand.
- Cut order backlog 24% in the first two quarters.
- Moved four contract manufacturers onto a single inbound schedule.
Beacon Logistics
2017 – 2020
Operations Manager · Cambridge, MA
- Coordinated 300 weekly deliveries across six routes.
- Reduced overtime 16% by forecasting labour to the hourly dock queue.
Canton Freight Partners
2014 – 2017
Coordinator · Canton, MA
- Ran the day sheet for a 40-driver fleet.
Milton Supply Co.
2012 – 2014
Assistant Coordinator · Milton, MA
- First point of contact for 90 retail accounts.
Education
Boston College
2008 – 2012
B.A. Economics
Skills
- Methods
- Demand forecasting, slotting, dock scheduling
- Systems
- NetSuite, Excel, Power Query, Tableau
Use this template
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