Executive resume template for Google Docs™
Two pages for senior leaders: an executive summary, core skills, then each role written as results. Navy headings in Georgia.
- Parser read 53/53 fields
- 2 pages
- 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.
53/53
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.
Catherine Vance Charlotte, NC | (704) 555-0119 | catherine.vance@example.com | linkedin.com/in/catherinevance EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Operations executive with 18 years in industrial manufacturing, the last seven running multi-plant operations of up to 1,400 people. I turn around underperforming plants, build leadership teams that stay, and connect the shop floor to the numbers the board cares about. Most recently led a $40 million modernization that raised on-time delivery from 81% to 96%. CORE SKILLS • Operations: Multi-plant leadership, lean manufacturing, plant turnarounds • Finance: P&L ownership to $310 million, capital planning, cost reduction • People: Building leadership teams, union relations, safety culture • Growth: New product launches, capacity expansion, acquisition integration PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Harrowfield Pump Company Charlotte, NC Vice President of Operations Jan 2019 – Present • Lead three plants and two distribution centers with 1,400 employees and a $310 million operating budget, reporting to the CEO • Planned and delivered a $40 million modernization across all three plants on schedule and $2.3 million under budget • Raised on-time delivery from 81% to 96% and cut warranty claims by 38% over four years • Brought the recordable injury rate from 4.1 to 1.6 by putting safety walks and near-miss reporting at the center of every plant meeting • Rebuilt the plant leadership team, and every manager hired since 2020 has stayed • Integrated an acquired valve business into our operating system in nine months, keeping every major customer and all of its 120 employees Ironbriar Equipment Works Greenville, SC Plant Director Mar 2014 – Dec 2018 • Ran a 600-person plant making hydraulic components for construction equipment, with annual output of about $140 million • Turned the plant from a $6 million loss to a $9 million profit in three years through lean projects, a
Field by field
What we wrote, and what the parser put in each field.
| Field | Parser read | Match |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Catherine Vance | |
| catherine.vance@example.com | ||
| Phone | (704) 555-0119 | |
| Location | Charlotte, NC | |
| Link | linkedin.com/in/catherinevance | |
| Summary | Operations executive with 18 years in industrial manufacturing, the last seven running multi-plant operations of up to 1,400 people. I turn around underperforming plants, build leadership teams that stay, and connect the shop floor to the numbers the board cares about. Most recently led a $40 million modernization that raised on-time delivery from 81% to 96%. | |
| Job 1 company | Harrowfield Pump Company | |
| Job 1 title | Vice President of Operations | |
| Job 1 dates | Jan 2019 – Present | |
| Job 1, bullet 1 | Lead three plants and two distribution centers with 1,400 employees and a $310 million operating budget, reporting to the CEO | |
| Job 1, bullet 2 | Planned and delivered a $40 million modernization across all three plants on schedule and $2.3 million under budget | |
| Job 1, bullet 3 | Raised on-time delivery from 81% to 96% and cut warranty claims by 38% over four years | |
| Job 1, bullet 4 | Brought the recordable injury rate from 4.1 to 1.6 by putting safety walks and near-miss reporting at the center of every plant meeting | |
| Job 1, bullet 5 | Rebuilt the plant leadership team, and every manager hired since 2020 has stayed | |
| Job 1, bullet 6 | Integrated an acquired valve business into our operating system in nine months, keeping every major customer and all of its 120 employees | |
| Job 2 company | Ironbriar Equipment Works | |
| Job 2 title | Plant Director | |
| Job 2 dates | Mar 2014 – Dec 2018 | |
| Job 2, bullet 1 | Ran a 600-person plant making hydraulic components for construction equipment, with annual output of about $140 million | |
| Job 2, bullet 2 | Turned the plant from a $6 million loss to a $9 million profit in three years through lean projects, a new shift pattern and better scrap control | |
| Job 2, bullet 3 | Negotiated two labor agreements with no strikes and half the grievances | |
| Job 2, bullet 4 | Opened a second assembly line for a new product in 11 months, ahead of plan | |
| Job 2, bullet 5 | Introduced tiered daily meetings from the shop floor to the plant staff, so problems reached the right level within a day | |
| Job 3 company | Brassfork Tooling | |
| Job 3 title | Operations Manager | |
| Job 3 dates | Jun 2010 – Feb 2014 | |
| Job 3, bullet 1 | Managed production, maintenance and quality for a 220-person tooling plant | |
| Job 3, bullet 2 | Introduced daily production boards and a weekly cost review that cut overtime by 30% | |
| Job 3, bullet 3 | Led the plant's first ISO 9001 certification, passed with no major findings | |
| Job 3, bullet 4 | Moved maintenance to a planned schedule and cut unplanned downtime by 25% | |
| Job 3, bullet 5 | Hired and trained the plant's first team of production supervisors drawn from the shop floor | |
| Job 3, bullet 6 | Set up a cross-trained maintenance crew that covered all three shifts | |
| Job 3, bullet 7 | Cut scrap from 4.8% to 2.1% of material cost with operator-led problem solving | |
| Job 3, bullet 8 | Ran the plant's capital budget of about $3 million a year | |
| Job 3, bullet 9 | Worked with sales on quoting rules that ended money-losing rush orders | |
| Job 4 company | Harmon & Pike Manufacturing | |
| Job 4 title | Industrial Engineer | |
| Job 4 dates | Jul 2006 – May 2010 | |
| Job 4, bullet 1 | Redesigned two assembly cells, raising output per labor hour by 22% | |
| Job 4, bullet 2 | Built the plant's standard cost model, still in use when I left | |
| Job 4, bullet 3 | Ran time studies and line balancing for a new product launch with the engineering team | |
| School 1 | Larkbriar University | |
| School 1 degree | Master of Business Administration | |
| School 1 dates | May 2013 | |
| School 1 GPA | (empty) | |
| School 2 | Cardinal Ridge University | |
| School 2 degree | Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering | |
| School 2 dates | May 2006 | |
| School 2 GPA | (empty) | |
| Skills line 1 | Operations: Multi-plant leadership, lean manufacturing, plant turnarounds | |
| Skills line 2 | Finance: P&L ownership to $310 million, capital planning, cost reduction | |
| Skills line 3 | People: Building leadership teams, union relations, safety culture | |
| Skills line 4 | Growth: New product launches, capacity expansion, acquisition integration |
Shown but not counted
- Charlotte, NC: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- Greenville, SC: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- Dayton, OH: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- Dayton, OH: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- Raleigh, NC: no location field for schools. It's in the extracted text.
- Columbus, OH: no location field for schools. It's in the extracted text.
- Board member, Carolinas Manufacturing Roundtable, since 2021: no field for this section in the parser. It's in the extracted text.
- Advisory board, Larkbriar University Center for Operations Excellence, since 2019: no field for this section in the parser. 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 9897e4738784…), 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
- 11 pt
- Margins
- 0.75 in (Letter), 22 mm (A4)
- Length
- 2 pages with the sample content
- Sections
- Executive Summary, Core Skills, Professional Experience, Education, Board and Affiliations
- Good for
- 15+ years, director and above
- 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.
- Running long? Cut older and minor items before you shrink anything. Keep body text at 10.5 pt or larger.
- 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.