Classic resume template for Google Docs™
Serif type, centered headings and education first. The look many university career offices recommend for finance, law and consulting.
- Parser read 38/38 fields
- 1 page
- US Letter and A4
- Google Docs and Word
- Georgia
What a parser reads from it
Field by field, from the PDF that Google Docs exports.
38/38
fields read correctly from the resume (US Letter), downloaded from Google Docs as a PDF and read by the open-source OpenResume parser (commit 4f8255a) on Oct 1, 2026.
What the parser read
First 30 lines, exactly as extracted.
Olivia Bennett Providence, RI | (401) 555-0132 | olivia.bennett@email.com | linkedin.com/in/oliviabennett EDUCATION Halden College Providence, RI Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Minor in Statistics Sep 2022 – May 2026 • GPA: 3.8/4.0, Economics Department Honors Program • Relevant Coursework: Econometrics, Corporate Finance, Game Theory, Financial Accounting, Data Analysis in Python EXPERIENCE Ridgeway Capital Partners New York, NY Investment Banking Analyst Intern Jun 2025 – Aug 2025 • Built three-statement models for two consumer retail clients and updated comparable company sets each week • Drafted 20 pages of a sell-side pitch book, including the industry overview and buyer list • Checked a 40-tab merger model line by line before it went to the client and found a circular reference in debt schedules Halden College Department of Economics Providence, RI Research Assistant Jan 2024 – May 2025 • Cleaned and merged 15 years of county wage data in Stata for a professor's study on minimum wage spillovers • Wrote summary tables and charts that appeared in a working paper presented at two conferences Halden College Writing Center Providence, RI Peer Tutor Sep 2023 – Dec 2024 • Met with about eight students a week to work on essays, lab reports and cover letters • Led two workshops on writing clear policy memos for first-year economics students PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES Halden Investment Club | Vice President Sep 2023 – Present • Run weekly stock pitch meetings for 45 members and manage a $25,000 student portfolio with four sector heads • Started a mentoring program that paired 18 first-year members with alumni working in finance Halden Habitat Builders | Volunteer Coordinator Sep 2022 – May 2024
Field by field
What we wrote, and what the parser put in each field.
| Field | Parser read | Match |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Olivia Bennett | |
| olivia.bennett@email.com | ||
| Phone | (401) 555-0132 | |
| Location | Providence, RI | |
| Link | linkedin.com/in/oliviabennett | |
| Summary | (empty) | |
| Job 1 company | Ridgeway Capital Partners | |
| Job 1 title | Investment Banking Analyst Intern | |
| Job 1 dates | Jun 2025 – Aug 2025 | |
| Job 1, bullet 1 | Built three-statement models for two consumer retail clients and updated comparable company sets each week | |
| Job 1, bullet 2 | Drafted 20 pages of a sell-side pitch book, including the industry overview and buyer list | |
| Job 1, bullet 3 | Checked a 40-tab merger model line by line before it went to the client and found a circular reference in debt schedules | |
| Job 2 company | Halden College Department of Economics | |
| Job 2 title | Research Assistant | |
| Job 2 dates | Jan 2024 – May 2025 | |
| Job 2, bullet 1 | Cleaned and merged 15 years of county wage data in Stata for a professor's study on minimum wage spillovers | |
| Job 2, bullet 2 | Wrote summary tables and charts that appeared in a working paper presented at two conferences | |
| Job 3 company | Halden College Writing Center | |
| Job 3 title | Peer Tutor | |
| Job 3 dates | Sep 2023 – Dec 2024 | |
| Job 3, bullet 1 | Met with about eight students a week to work on essays, lab reports and cover letters | |
| Job 3, bullet 2 | Led two workshops on writing clear policy memos for first-year economics students | |
| School 1 | Halden College | |
| School 1 degree | Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Minor in Statistics | |
| School 1 dates | Sep 2022 – May 2026 | |
| School 1 GPA | 3.8 | |
| School 1, bullet 1 | GPA: 3.8/4.0, Economics Department Honors Program | |
| School 1, bullet 2 | Relevant Coursework: Econometrics, Corporate Finance, Game Theory, Financial Accounting, Data Analysis in Python | |
| Project 1 | Halden Investment Club | Vice President | |
| Project 1 dates | Sep 2023 – Present | |
| Project 1, bullet 1 | Run weekly stock pitch meetings for 45 members and manage a $25,000 student portfolio with four sector heads | |
| Project 1, bullet 2 | Started a mentoring program that paired 18 first-year members with alumni working in finance | |
| Project 2 | Halden Habitat Builders | Volunteer Coordinator | |
| Project 2 dates | Sep 2022 – May 2024 | |
| Project 2, bullet 1 | Organized monthly build days for about 30 volunteers and kept the sign-up and safety records | |
| Skills line 1 | Technical: Excel, PowerPoint, Python (pandas), Stata, Capital IQ | |
| Skills line 2 | Certifications: Bloomberg Market Concepts, Wall Street Prep Financial Modeling | |
| Skills line 3 | Languages: French (fluent), Spanish (basic) |
Shown but not counted
- Providence, RI: no location field for schools. It's in the extracted text.
- New York, NY: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- Providence, RI: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- Providence, RI: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
This checks our sample text, read by one open-source parser from the PDF that Google Docs' File > Download > PDF produces. It isn't a score, and it doesn't tell you how Workday, Greenhouse or any other hiring system will read your own resume. Anyone can rerun it: the test repository has the PDF (SHA-256 7bc588010737…), the expected values and the raw results. How we test
Specs and editing tips
Everything you need to edit it without breaking the layout.
Specs
- Font
- Georgia, installed on Windows and macOS, so the .docx keeps its look
- Body text
- 10.5 pt
- Margins
- 0.6 in (Letter), 15 mm (A4)
- Length
- 1 page with the sample content
- Sections
- Education, Experience, Projects & Activities, Skills
- Good for
- Students and recent graduates
- Layout
- One column, no tables, text boxes, images or icons. Dates aligned with a right tab stop.
Editing tips
- Dates stay on the right by themselves. Each heading line has a right-aligned tab stop. Press Tab before the date instead of adding spaces.
- Add a job by copying one. Select a whole entry, heading lines and bullets, copy it and paste it below. The spacing comes with it.
- Ran onto a second page? Set margins to 0.5 in, body text to 10.5 pt and line spacing to single, in that order. More ways to fit one page
- Rename your copy. Recruiters see the file name, so use something like Firstname-Lastname-Resume.
Exporting your finished resume
Two downloads from Google Docs cover almost every application.
File > Download > PDF Document. This is the exact path we test on every release. It gives selectable text with the fonts embedded.
Word
File > Download > Microsoft Word (.docx). Our own .docx files are exported this way, and we check that text and bullets survive. Don't convert a PDF to Word.
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Questions
- Is it really free?
- Yes. No account, no email and no watermark. Copy it, edit it and send it to as many employers as you like. The one thing you can't do is repost the template file itself somewhere else.
- Will it get through an ATS?
- Nobody can promise that, and we don't. What we can show is that an open-source parser reads our sample of this template correctly, field by field, from the PDF Google Docs produces. Workday, Greenhouse and others use their own parsers, and your own content matters as much as the layout. How we test
- Can I use it in Microsoft Word?
- Yes. Download the .docx, or copy to Google Docs and later use File > Download > Microsoft Word. The font is installed on Windows and macOS, so nothing gets swapped.
- Why no photo, icons or two columns?
- Parsers read a page top to bottom. Columns, text boxes and icons are the usual reason a resume comes out scrambled. US employers also generally don't want photos.
- Can my name have accents or non-Latin characters?
- Yes, with one caveat. In our tests the parser read José Álvarez, Mary-Jane Smith, Sean O'Brien and Иван Петров correctly, and the layout didn't move. A Chinese name like 王小明 also kept the page intact, but Google Docs swaps in a Japanese font for those characters and the parser left the name field empty. For US applications, put the romanized name first, like Xiaoming Wang (王小明). Phone numbers outside the US format, like +44 7700 900123, aren't picked up as phone numbers either.