ATS-friendly · Single column · ATS 5/5
Entry-Level Resume template
Compact one-page rhythm that treats projects and volunteering as real experience.
Nothing here is drawn for effect. Each choice — plain headings, a single flow, text-only contact details — exists because it is what a parser reads back correctly. It runs as one column with no photo, which is the combination most application portals and most UK, US and Irish employers prefer.
Live preview of the Entry-Level Resume template, rendered at full page size with an example CV. The preview is the same code that generates your PDF.
The design
About the Entry-Level Resume layout
Who it’s for
The readers and situations this layout was drawn for.
- School leavers and first-time applicants
- Career changers leading with projects
- Apprenticeship and trainee scheme applications
Key features
What is actually different about this template on the page.
- Section rhythm compressed to 0.75× for one page
- Two-line header under a single 2px rule
- Projects and volunteering weighted like work experience
- Wide-tracked capital headings with no rule-work
ATS score 5/5 · Excellent
How this layout behaves in an applicant tracking system
A perfect parsing score: the document is a single sequence of headed text blocks, so an extractor recovers your history in the order you wrote it rather than in the order elements happen to sit on the page.
Sections stack in a single flow, so the order you set in the editor is the order the parser records: summary, then experience, then education, then whatever you put next.
There is little left to fix here. If you want to see how the rest of the parser-safe range compares — and what a 5 out of 5 is actually measuring — the ATS CV templates page scores every layout on the same criteria.
- Reading order
- Single flow
- Headings
- Real text
- Tables
- None
- Images
- None
- Selectable text
- Yes
Scores are our own assessment of how a parser handles the layout — never a guarantee about one specific employer’s system.
In practice
Three situations Entry-Level Resume is the right answer to
A recruiter who will re-format your CV
Agencies routinely re-key a CV into their own house template before sending it to a client. Starting from a plain, correctly structured document means what arrives at the client end still resembles what you wrote. The reader it was drawn for: School leavers and first-time applicants.
For the machine that reads first
Plain headings, plain lists and one text flow mean the file you upload is the file the system reads back: no reordered sections, no dropped job titles, no dates attached to the wrong employer.
A UK, US, Canadian or Irish application
Employers in these markets discourage photographs outright — some screening teams remove them before a hiring manager sees the file, to keep the process defensible. Starting without one means nothing has to be removed. Entry-Level Resume has no photo slot to remove, so the same file works in every market you send it to.
Make it yours
Customising Entry-Level Resume
Accent colour
Entry-Level Resume ships with #334155 as its accent. Colour is deliberately minimal. A dark accent on the headings is safe and makes the printed page easier for a human to scan; nothing about the accent affects parsing, because a parser reads text and ignores hue entirely.
Fonts and heading style
Stay with a common sans or serif. Unusual faces can export with non-standard character mappings, which produces a PDF that looks correct and extracts as gibberish — precisely the failure this family exists to prevent. Heading case — uppercase, capitalised or as typed — is a separate switch, and it changes the character of the page more than most people expect.
Spacing and density
Font size, line height, section spacing and page margins are all sliders. On a single column they behave predictably: reduce section spacing first, margins second, and only then the type size — a CV set below 9.5pt starts to look like an attempt to hide its length.
Sections and order
Use the conventional section names. A screening system matches on headings it recognises, so “Experience” earns matches that “Where I’ve worked” does not, however much better the second one reads. Every section can be renamed, reordered or hidden, and Pro adds custom sections for anything the standard set does not cover.
Paper size and export
A4 or US Letter, switched in one control, with the layout re-flowing to the new page rather than being scaled to fit. The PDF is generated from the same code you see in the preview, so what you approve on screen is what downloads.
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