Modern Bold resume template for Google Docs™
A large teal name and heavy rules under each heading. Stands out in a stack of printouts and still reads cleanly in software.
- Parser read 33/33 fields
- 1 page
- US Letter and A4
- Google Docs and Word
- Arial
What a parser reads from it
Field by field, from the PDF that Google Docs exports.
33/33
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.
Andre Whitaker Austin, TX | (512) 555-0154 | andre.whitaker@example.com | linkedin.com/in/andrewhitaker SUMMARY Customer success manager with seven years in software for labs and event teams. I manage renewals worth about $4 million a year, and I'm known for catching unhappy accounts early, before they show up in the numbers. EXPERIENCE Senior Customer Success Manager Apr 2022 – Present Quill & Flask Labs Austin, TX • Manage 45 lab accounts with $4.1 million in yearly renewals and 96% gross retention last year • Built a health score from support tickets and product usage that flags accounts at risk about two months earlier than before • Lead quarterly business reviews with lab directors and bring their requests back to the product team • Onboarded and coached three new managers on the team Customer Success Manager Jan 2019 – Mar 2022 Tallowbird Events Austin, TX • Looked after 120 event agencies through the switch to a new ticketing platform, losing only four • Wrote the onboarding guide and video series that cut setup calls from three to one • Turned 22 accounts into paid upgrades by showing them features they already had but didn't use • Ran the customer advisory group of 12 agencies that tested new features before release Account Coordinator Jun 2017 – Dec 2018 Rattlebrush Brewing Company San Antonio, TX • Handled orders and delivery problems for 90 bars and restaurants across three cities • Kept the distributor price list current and caught billing errors before invoices went out • Set up delivery schedules with three distributors and handled out-of-stock calls EDUCATION Mesquite Hollow University San Marcos, TX Bachelor of Business Administration May 2017 SKILLS Customer tools: Salesforce, Gainsight, HubSpot, Zendesk Data: Excel, Looker, basic SQL
Field by field
What we wrote, and what the parser put in each field.
| Field | Parser read | Match |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Andre Whitaker | |
| andre.whitaker@example.com | ||
| Phone | (512) 555-0154 | |
| Location | Austin, TX | |
| Link | linkedin.com/in/andrewhitaker | |
| Summary | Customer success manager with seven years in software for labs and event teams. I manage renewals worth about $4 million a year, and I'm known for catching unhappy accounts early, before they show up in the numbers. | |
| Job 1 company | Quill & Flask Labs | |
| Job 1 title | Senior Customer Success Manager | |
| Job 1 dates | Apr 2022 – Present | |
| Job 1, bullet 1 | Manage 45 lab accounts with $4.1 million in yearly renewals and 96% gross retention last year | |
| Job 1, bullet 2 | Built a health score from support tickets and product usage that flags accounts at risk about two months earlier than before | |
| Job 1, bullet 3 | Lead quarterly business reviews with lab directors and bring their requests back to the product team | |
| Job 1, bullet 4 | Onboarded and coached three new managers on the team | |
| Job 2 company | Tallowbird Events | |
| Job 2 title | Customer Success Manager | |
| Job 2 dates | Jan 2019 – Mar 2022 | |
| Job 2, bullet 1 | Looked after 120 event agencies through the switch to a new ticketing platform, losing only four | |
| Job 2, bullet 2 | Wrote the onboarding guide and video series that cut setup calls from three to one | |
| Job 2, bullet 3 | Turned 22 accounts into paid upgrades by showing them features they already had but didn't use | |
| Job 2, bullet 4 | Ran the customer advisory group of 12 agencies that tested new features before release | |
| Job 3 company | Rattlebrush Brewing Company | |
| Job 3 title | Account Coordinator | |
| Job 3 dates | Jun 2017 – Dec 2018 | |
| Job 3, bullet 1 | Handled orders and delivery problems for 90 bars and restaurants across three cities | |
| Job 3, bullet 2 | Kept the distributor price list current and caught billing errors before invoices went out | |
| Job 3, bullet 3 | Set up delivery schedules with three distributors and handled out-of-stock calls | |
| School 1 | Mesquite Hollow University | |
| School 1 degree | Bachelor of Business Administration | |
| School 1 dates | May 2017 | |
| School 1 GPA | (empty) | |
| Skills line 1 | Customer tools: Salesforce, Gainsight, HubSpot, Zendesk | |
| Skills line 2 | Data: Excel, Looker, basic SQL | |
| Skills line 3 | Languages: English (native), Spanish (fluent) |
Shown but not counted
- Austin, TX: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- Austin, TX: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- San Antonio, TX: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- San Marcos, TX: 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 ae744b6278ed…), 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
- Arial, 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, Education, Skills
- Good for
- 3–10 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.