Skills-based resume template for Google Docs™
Summary and skills come before work history. Useful when you're changing careers or coming back after a gap.
- Parser read 33/33 fields
- 1 page
- US Letter and A4
- Google Docs and Word
- Verdana
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 1, 2026.
What the parser read
First 30 lines, exactly as extracted.
Rachel Nguyen Portland, OR | (503) 555-0121 | rachel.nguyen@email.com | linkedin.com/in/rachelnguyen SUMMARY Former middle school science teacher moving into instructional design. Eight years of planning lessons for mixed-ability classes, plus two years building online courses for adult learners as a contractor. Looking for a full-time learning design role on a training team. SKILLS • Instructional design: needs analysis, learning objectives, storyboarding, ADDIE, assessment design • eLearning tools: Articulate Storyline and Rise, Canvas, Camtasia, Google Workspace • Facilitation: live workshops for groups of 10 to 120, virtual sessions on Zoom • Results: course completion up 30% and onboarding time down two weeks (see Experience) EXPERIENCE Cascade Credit Union (contract) Portland, OR Instructional Designer Jan 2024 – Present • Rebuilt the teller onboarding course in Rise, cutting time to independent work from six weeks to four • Wrote scenario-based compliance modules that raised first-try quiz pass rates from 64% to 88% • Interview branch managers each quarter to decide which courses to update next Lincoln Park Middle School Portland, OR Science Teacher Aug 2016 – Jun 2024 • Planned and taught 7th and 8th grade science for about 140 students a year • Moved the department's labs to Canvas, raising on-time lab report completion by 30% • Coached five new teachers on lesson planning and classroom routines PROJECTS Volunteer onboarding course | Articulate Rise, Portland Food Share Sep 2023 • Built a 20-minute self-paced course for warehouse volunteers that replaced a weekly in-person orientation EDUCATION Willamette Valley University Salem, OR Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction Jun 2019
Field by field
What we wrote, and what the parser put in each field.
| Field | Parser read | Match |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Rachel Nguyen | |
| rachel.nguyen@email.com | ||
| Phone | (503) 555-0121 | |
| Location | Portland, OR | |
| Link | linkedin.com/in/rachelnguyen | |
| Summary | Former middle school science teacher moving into instructional design. Eight years of planning lessons for mixed-ability classes, plus two years building online courses for adult learners as a contractor. Looking for a full-time learning design role on a training team. | |
| Job 1 company | Cascade Credit Union (contract) | |
| Job 1 title | Instructional Designer | |
| Job 1 dates | Jan 2024 – Present | |
| Job 1, bullet 1 | Rebuilt the teller onboarding course in Rise, cutting time to independent work from six weeks to four | |
| Job 1, bullet 2 | Wrote scenario-based compliance modules that raised first-try quiz pass rates from 64% to 88% | |
| Job 1, bullet 3 | Interview branch managers each quarter to decide which courses to update next | |
| Job 2 company | Lincoln Park Middle School | |
| Job 2 title | Science Teacher | |
| Job 2 dates | Aug 2016 – Jun 2024 | |
| Job 2, bullet 1 | Planned and taught 7th and 8th grade science for about 140 students a year | |
| Job 2, bullet 2 | Moved the department's labs to Canvas, raising on-time lab report completion by 30% | |
| Job 2, bullet 3 | Coached five new teachers on lesson planning and classroom routines | |
| School 1 | Willamette Valley University | |
| School 1 degree | Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction | |
| School 1 dates | Jun 2019 | |
| School 1 GPA | (empty) | |
| School 2 | Columbia Gorge College | |
| School 2 degree | Bachelor of Science in Biology | |
| School 2 dates | Jun 2016 | |
| School 2 GPA | (empty) | |
| Project 1 | Volunteer onboarding course | Articulate Rise, Portland Food Share | |
| Project 1 dates | Sep 2023 | |
| Project 1, bullet 1 | Built a 20-minute self-paced course for warehouse volunteers that replaced a weekly in-person orientation | |
| Skills line 1 | Instructional design: needs analysis, learning objectives, storyboarding, ADDIE, assessment design | |
| Skills line 2 | eLearning tools: Articulate Storyline and Rise, Canvas, Camtasia, Google Workspace | |
| Skills line 3 | Facilitation: live workshops for groups of 10 to 120, virtual sessions on Zoom | |
| Skills line 4 | Results: course completion up 30% and onboarding time down two weeks (see Experience) |
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.
- Salem, OR: no location field for schools. It's in the extracted text.
- Hood River, 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 01e5ede2fa7d…), 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
- Verdana, installed on Windows and macOS, so the .docx keeps its look
- Body text
- 10 pt
- Margins
- 0.6 in (Letter), 15 mm (A4)
- Length
- 1 page with the sample content
- Sections
- Summary, Skills, Experience, Projects, Education
- Good for
- Career changers, any level
- 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.