Skip to content
Resumeboard

Template 46 of 59

Entry level

For a first or second job, where the page is short and every line has to be read rather than skimmed. The body is 12pt on a 1.5 leading, entries sit 12pt apart, and there is no photograph: a school, a careers adviser or an internship board sees a page with room to write on it, which is the thing that page has to do.

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
entry
Sheet
Letter, 8.5 × 11 in
Margins
0.9 in on all four sides
Body
12 pt, 1.5 line height
Face
System UI, web-safe. The reference face, at its own point size.
Line length
72 characters, about 36 em, capped and centred
Name
23.40 pt
Section headings
Title case, 16.42 pt, no rule
Section gap
24 pt. Entry gap 12 pt.
Bullets
Filled disc, 1.92 pt between them
Columns
One. No column split, and no risk of a misread reading order.
Arrangement
none rule under the header.
Photo
None.
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.
  • A reader who reads properly. A 1.5 leading and 24 pt between sections is a page to sit with.
  • A page size of Letter, 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.
  • A second page, and anything that has to be skimmed. The air between sections is the first thing to go when space runs out.
  • 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

Larger type, more air, no photo. A first CV that is easy to read. 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

Letter, 8.5 × 11 in, at full width — one point on this sheet is one point on paper. Live HTML and CSS, not a screenshot. Ink on paper: the sheet stays white in dark mode.

Use this template

Opens the builder on Entry level 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 Entry level in the builder

The draft is written to this browser and nowhere else. No account, no upload, no analytics.

Opens the builder at #template=entry