Modern resume template for Google Docs™
One ink-blue accent on headings and rules, with a summary up top. Clean enough for any parser, with a little more personality.
- Parser read 35/35 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.
35/35
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.
Priya Shah Seattle, WA | (206) 555-0119 | priya.shah@email.com | priyashah.design/work SUMMARY Product designer with three years of experience in health and consumer apps. I run my own interviews, prototype in Figma, and work closely with engineers until the feature ships. Most proud of work that made complicated forms feel short. EXPERIENCE Product Designer Mar 2024 – Present Larkspur Health Seattle, WA • Redesigned the patient intake flow from 14 screens to 6, raising completion from 61% to 83% in the first quarter • Ran 22 interviews with clinic staff and turned the findings into a shared research library the team still uses • Built a Figma component library with the front-end lead that cut design-to-build handoff time by about a third UX Designer Jul 2022 – Feb 2024 Cobalt Lane Studio Seattle, WA • Designed mobile checkout for a regional grocery chain, which lowered abandoned carts by 12% after launch • Led usability tests with 40 participants across five client projects and wrote the findings for each client • Mentored two design interns through their first shipped features Design Intern Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 Northgate Transit Authority Tacoma, WA • Sketched and tested new bus stop signs with riders at three busy stops, and the agency adopted two of the ideas PROJECTS Wayfinding for Pine Street Library | Research, signage Oct 2023 • Volunteered to map how visitors get lost and designed floor signs that reduced front desk direction questions by half Habit tracker concept | Figma, ProtoPie Jan 2023 • Designed and tested a habit app for shift workers, written up as a case study with 4,000 reads on Medium
Field by field
What we wrote, and what the parser put in each field.
| Field | Parser read | Match |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Priya Shah | |
| priya.shah@email.com | ||
| Phone | (206) 555-0119 | |
| Location | Seattle, WA | |
| Link | priyashah.design/work | |
| Summary | Product designer with three years of experience in health and consumer apps. I run my own interviews, prototype in Figma, and work closely with engineers until the feature ships. Most proud of work that made complicated forms feel short. | |
| Job 1 company | Larkspur Health | |
| Job 1 title | Product Designer | |
| Job 1 dates | Mar 2024 – Present | |
| Job 1, bullet 1 | Redesigned the patient intake flow from 14 screens to 6, raising completion from 61% to 83% in the first quarter | |
| Job 1, bullet 2 | Ran 22 interviews with clinic staff and turned the findings into a shared research library the team still uses | |
| Job 1, bullet 3 | Built a Figma component library with the front-end lead that cut design-to-build handoff time by about a third | |
| Job 2 company | Cobalt Lane Studio | |
| Job 2 title | UX Designer | |
| Job 2 dates | Jul 2022 – Feb 2024 | |
| Job 2, bullet 1 | Designed mobile checkout for a regional grocery chain, which lowered abandoned carts by 12% after launch | |
| Job 2, bullet 2 | Led usability tests with 40 participants across five client projects and wrote the findings for each client | |
| Job 2, bullet 3 | Mentored two design interns through their first shipped features | |
| Job 3 company | Northgate Transit Authority | |
| Job 3 title | Design Intern | |
| Job 3 dates | Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 | |
| Job 3, bullet 1 | Sketched and tested new bus stop signs with riders at three busy stops, and the agency adopted two of the ideas | |
| School 1 | Pacific Crest University | |
| School 1 degree | Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interaction Design | |
| School 1 dates | Jun 2022 | |
| School 1 GPA | (empty) | |
| Project 1 | Wayfinding for Pine Street Library | Research, signage | |
| Project 1 dates | Oct 2023 | |
| Project 1, bullet 1 | Volunteered to map how visitors get lost and designed floor signs that reduced front desk direction questions by half | |
| Project 2 | Habit tracker concept | Figma, ProtoPie | |
| Project 2 dates | Jan 2023 | |
| Project 2, bullet 1 | Designed and tested a habit app for shift workers, written up as a case study with 4,000 reads on Medium | |
| Skills line 1 | Design: Figma, ProtoPie, Adobe Illustrator, design systems | |
| Skills line 2 | Research: Interviews, usability testing, surveys, Dovetail | |
| Skills line 3 | Collaboration: Jira, Notion, basic HTML and CSS |
Shown but not counted
- Seattle, WA: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- Seattle, WA: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- Tacoma, WA: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- Seattle, WA: 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 b05424136b9b…), 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, Projects, Education, Skills
- Good for
- 1–6 years
- 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.