Student resume template for Google Docs™
Education first, then part-time jobs and a section for clubs, volunteering and class projects. Made for a first internship.
- Parser read 35/35 fields
- 1 page
- 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.
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.
Avery Johnson Raleigh, NC | (919) 555-0137 | avery.johnson@email.com | linkedin.com/in/averyjohnson EDUCATION Cardinal Ridge University Raleigh, NC Bachelor of Science in Biology, Minor in Chemistry Aug 2024 – May 2028 • GPA: 3.6/4.0, Dean's List three semesters • Relevant Coursework: Cell Biology, General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Statistics for Life Sciences EXPERIENCE Cardinal Ridge University Libraries Raleigh, NC Library Assistant Sep 2024 – Present • Check out and shelve about 200 items per shift and help visitors find sources in the catalog • Rewrote the printer help sheet after noticing the same questions every night, and desk questions about printing dropped Corner Books & Coffee Cary, NC Sales Associate Jun 2023 – Aug 2024 • Handled the register and online pickup orders on weekend shifts of up to 300 customers • Set up the monthly staff picks table, which became one of the store's best-selling displays PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES Pre-Health Society | Events Chair Jan 2025 – Present • Plan four speaker events a semester with local doctors and nurses, with an average turnout of 60 students • Started a shadowing sign-up sheet that matched 25 members with clinics in the area Soil Microbe Survey | Lab project, Intro Biology Mar 2025 – Apr 2025 • Collected and cultured soil samples from 12 campus sites with a team of three and presented the results at the class poster session Riverbend Community Garden | Volunteer Jun 2022 – Present • Help run Saturday harvests that send about 150 pounds of produce a month to a local food pantry SKILLS Lab: Pipetting, gel electrophoresis, microscopy, aseptic technique Software: Excel, Google Sheets, R (basics), ImageJ Languages: English (native), Spanish (intermediate)
Field by field
What we wrote, and what the parser put in each field.
| Field | Parser read | Match |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Avery Johnson | |
| avery.johnson@email.com | ||
| Phone | (919) 555-0137 | |
| Location | Raleigh, NC | |
| Link | linkedin.com/in/averyjohnson | |
| Summary | (empty) | |
| Job 1 company | Cardinal Ridge University Libraries | |
| Job 1 title | Library Assistant | |
| Job 1 dates | Sep 2024 – Present | |
| Job 1, bullet 1 | Check out and shelve about 200 items per shift and help visitors find sources in the catalog | |
| Job 1, bullet 2 | Rewrote the printer help sheet after noticing the same questions every night, and desk questions about printing dropped | |
| Job 2 company | Corner Books & Coffee | |
| Job 2 title | Sales Associate | |
| Job 2 dates | Jun 2023 – Aug 2024 | |
| Job 2, bullet 1 | Handled the register and online pickup orders on weekend shifts of up to 300 customers | |
| Job 2, bullet 2 | Set up the monthly staff picks table, which became one of the store's best-selling displays | |
| School 1 | Cardinal Ridge University | |
| School 1 degree | Bachelor of Science in Biology, Minor in Chemistry | |
| School 1 dates | Aug 2024 – May 2028 | |
| School 1 GPA | 3.6 | |
| School 1, bullet 1 | GPA: 3.6/4.0, Dean's List three semesters | |
| School 1, bullet 2 | Relevant Coursework: Cell Biology, General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Statistics for Life Sciences | |
| Project 1 | Pre-Health Society | Events Chair | |
| Project 1 dates | Jan 2025 – Present | |
| Project 1, bullet 1 | Plan four speaker events a semester with local doctors and nurses, with an average turnout of 60 students | |
| Project 1, bullet 2 | Started a shadowing sign-up sheet that matched 25 members with clinics in the area | |
| Project 2 | Soil Microbe Survey | Lab project, Intro Biology | |
| Project 2 dates | Mar 2025 – Apr 2025 | |
| Project 2, bullet 1 | Collected and cultured soil samples from 12 campus sites with a team of three and presented the results at the class poster session | |
| Project 3 | Riverbend Community Garden | Volunteer | |
| Project 3 dates | Jun 2022 – Present | |
| Project 3, bullet 1 | Help run Saturday harvests that send about 150 pounds of produce a month to a local food pantry | |
| Skills line 1 | Lab: Pipetting, gel electrophoresis, microscopy, aseptic technique | |
| Skills line 2 | Software: Excel, Google Sheets, R (basics), ImageJ | |
| Skills line 3 | Languages: English (native), Spanish (intermediate) |
Shown but not counted
- Raleigh, NC: no location field for schools. It's in the extracted text.
- Raleigh, NC: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- Cary, NC: no location field for jobs. 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 7f2e81cd2774…), 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
- 10.5 pt
- Margins
- 0.6 in (Letter), 15 mm (A4)
- Length
- 1 page with the sample content
- Sections
- Education, Experience, Projects & Activities, Skills
- Good for
- High school and college students
- 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.
Similar templates
Same rules, a different look.
Classic
38/38 fields readSerif type, centered headings and education first. The look many university career offices recommend for finance, law and consulting.
- 1 page
- Letter + A4
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Jake's
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Plain
33/33 fields readNothing but text, left-aligned, in Arial. A safe default for any job when you don't want the layout to be noticed.
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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.