Creative resume template for Google Docs™
Color in the name and headings, your portfolio link first, and a section for selected projects. Personality without columns or graphics.
- Parser read 36/36 fields
- 1 page
- US Letter and A4
- Google Docs and Word
- Trebuchet MS
What a parser reads from it
Field by field, from the PDF that Google Docs exports.
36/36
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 5, 2026.
What the parser read
First 30 lines, exactly as extracted.
Jules Moreau behance.net/julesmoreau | jules.moreau@example.com | (503) 555-0177 | Portland, OR SUMMARY Brand designer with seven years of identity, packaging and campaign work for food, outdoor and arts clients. I like small teams, tight briefs and print jobs where the paper matters as much as the screen. EXPERIENCE Senior Brand Designer May 2022 – Present Juniper & Vale Creative Portland, OR • Lead identity and packaging projects for 10 to 12 clients a year, from first workshop to final files • Redesigned packaging for a regional coffee roaster across 30 products; the new line was in 200 more stores within a year • Set up the studio's shared Figma library, cutting setup time for new projects by about a day • Mentor two junior designers and run the weekly critique Graphic Designer Aug 2019 – Apr 2022 Larchpenny Studio Portland, OR • Designed campaigns, social graphics and print pieces for 20 small businesses and nonprofits • Handled prepress and press checks for about 40 print jobs a year • Built animated social templates in After Effects that clients could update themselves Marketing Design Intern Jun 2018 – Aug 2018 Talus & Tern Outdoor Supply Bend, OR • Designed in-store signs and email headers for the summer sale season SELECTED PROJECTS Rattlebrush Brewing Company | Can labels and taproom signs 2024 • Designed a label system for 14 beers that lets the brewery add new flavors without a designer Marram Grass Shakespeare Festival | Season identity, freelance 2023 • Posters, program and ticketing graphics for a five-play outdoor season SKILLS Design: Figma, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop Motion: After Effects, Lottie Print: Prepress, packaging dielines, press checks
Field by field
What we wrote, and what the parser put in each field.
| Field | Parser read | Match |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Jules Moreau | |
| jules.moreau@example.com | ||
| Phone | (503) 555-0177 | |
| Location | Portland, OR | |
| Link | behance.net/julesmoreau | |
| Summary | Brand designer with seven years of identity, packaging and campaign work for food, outdoor and arts clients. I like small teams, tight briefs and print jobs where the paper matters as much as the screen. | |
| Job 1 company | Juniper & Vale Creative | |
| Job 1 title | Senior Brand Designer | |
| Job 1 dates | May 2022 – Present | |
| Job 1, bullet 1 | Lead identity and packaging projects for 10 to 12 clients a year, from first workshop to final files | |
| Job 1, bullet 2 | Redesigned packaging for a regional coffee roaster across 30 products; the new line was in 200 more stores within a year | |
| Job 1, bullet 3 | Set up the studio's shared Figma library, cutting setup time for new projects by about a day | |
| Job 1, bullet 4 | Mentor two junior designers and run the weekly critique | |
| Job 2 company | Larchpenny Studio | |
| Job 2 title | Graphic Designer | |
| Job 2 dates | Aug 2019 – Apr 2022 | |
| Job 2, bullet 1 | Designed campaigns, social graphics and print pieces for 20 small businesses and nonprofits | |
| Job 2, bullet 2 | Handled prepress and press checks for about 40 print jobs a year | |
| Job 2, bullet 3 | Built animated social templates in After Effects that clients could update themselves | |
| Job 3 company | Talus & Tern Outdoor Supply | |
| Job 3 title | Marketing Design Intern | |
| Job 3 dates | Jun 2018 – Aug 2018 | |
| Job 3, bullet 1 | Designed in-store signs and email headers for the summer sale season | |
| School 1 | Filbert Hill University | |
| School 1 degree | Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design | |
| School 1 dates | Jun 2019 | |
| School 1 GPA | (empty) | |
| Project 1 | Rattlebrush Brewing Company | Can labels and taproom signs | |
| Project 1 dates | 2024 | |
| Project 1, bullet 1 | Designed a label system for 14 beers that lets the brewery add new flavors without a designer | |
| Project 2 | Marram Grass Shakespeare Festival | Season identity, freelance | |
| Project 2 dates | 2023 | |
| Project 2, bullet 1 | Posters, program and ticketing graphics for a five-play outdoor season | |
| Skills line 1 | Design: Figma, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop | |
| Skills line 2 | Motion: After Effects, Lottie | |
| Skills line 3 | Print: Prepress, packaging dielines, press checks |
Shown but not counted
- Portland, OR: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- Portland, OR: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- Bend, OR: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- Eugene, OR: no location field for schools. 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 a85d6ead1952…), 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
- Trebuchet MS, 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
- Summary, Experience, Selected Projects, Skills, Education
- Good for
- Designers and creative roles
- 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.