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Executive
Serif, wide margins and the only single-column preset with a photograph on it. Built for senior roles where the summary and the title carry the page and the bullets underneath are evidence rather than the argument.
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
- executive
- Sheet
- Letter, 8.5 × 11 in
- Margins
- 0.75 in on all four sides
- Body
- 11.06 pt, 1.4 line height
- Face
- Georgia, web-safe. Corrected for optical size: 11.5 pt of Georgia reads like 10.5 pt of the system face.
- Line length
- 72 characters, about 36 em, capped and centred
- Name
- 21.57 pt
- Section headings
- Title case, 15.13 pt, no rule
- Section gap
- 16 pt. Entry gap 9 pt.
- Bullets
- En dash, 1.77 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
- 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
- Senior roles where the title and the summary are the pitch, and the entries are corroboration.
- Readers who read a serif page as a considered document rather than a form.
- Markets that expect a photograph, which is most of continental Europe and much of Asia and Latin America.
- Print, where a serif at this measure has a texture a sans cannot.
Bad at
- Markets that treat a photograph as a liability. Several employer screening policies ask for no photo, and a photo that is ignored is a page that is just longer.
- Long careers. Wide margins and a serif size are expensive in characters per page.
- Dense technical fields, where the reader wants the list and not the atmosphere.
- Anything that extracts text. A photograph is on the published list of things that break a parse.
ATS profile
Caution
One column and no tables, which is most of the way there. The photo slot is the problem: Greenhouse names graphics, photos and word art among the formatting that causes a failed or partial parse.
The slot is optional. Leave it empty and the page is structurally identical to the default; fill it and you have added the one item the vendor list warns about, for the benefit of a reader who may be told not to look.
If you are sending this to an employer that runs a parser and you are not certain what they do with a photo, the safe move is a preset with no slot. Print-safe has none.
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.
Robert Vance
Chief Operating Officer
- robert.vance@example.com
- +1 212 555 0140
- New York, New York
Profile
Operations executive, twenty years across logistics and industrial services. Three divisions, about 1,400 people, and most of the last decade spent on the same problem: making a capital plan survive contact with a plant floor.
Experience
Aldridge Industrial Group
2019 – Present
Chief Operating Officer · New York, NY
- Returned the industrial division to operating margin in five quarters.
- Consolidated four regional warehouses into two; freight spend fell 14%.
Halloran Manufacturing
2012 – 2019
Vice President, Operations · Hartford, CT
- Ran the turnaround of a 600-person plant that had missed three consecutive quarters of plan.
Bellweather Group, Boston, MA
2005 – 2012
Vice President, Supply Chain
- Ran a $300M network with 22 terminals.
- Cut days of supply from 41 to 29 in three years.
Education
Columbia Business School
1998 – 2000
Master of Business Administration
Amherst College
1994 – 1998
B.A. Economics
Board and advisory
- Director, Alder Trust, 2019 – present
- Chair, Logistics Council, 2016 – 2021
Languages
- English (native)
- French (professional)
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