Templates
Pretty templates get rejected. These get read.
The fancy two-column layout with your photo in a sidebar looks great — in a browser. In an applicant tracking system it reads as jumbled text in the wrong order, and a human never sees it. Every ProofKit template is checked against the same 23-point rubric the scanner runs: single column where it matters, real section headings, no tables eating your dates. Twenty layouts. All of them parse.
All fifteen
Same content engine. Fifteen densities.
Switch templates at any time — your resume data stays, only the layout changes. Every one is single-column, and every one passes the same 23 checks.
Simple & Professional
Standard
Single column, generous spacing, classic order: contact, summary, experience, education, skills. The safe default for most industries and the one every parser has seen a thousand times.
Minimal
Gray headings, no rules, more white space. For when the content should do all the talking and the layout should disappear.
Serif
Georgia body with sentence-case headings — reads like a printed document, parses like plain text. Strong for legal, finance, and government roles.
Academic
Serif type, centered header, wide margins. For research, teaching, and public-sector applications where the document should feel formal.
Modern
Modern
Same single-column skeleton parsers need, with a slightly stronger header treatment and section rules. For when you want it to look designed without gambling the parse.
Executive
Bigger name, small-caps contact line, navy rules. For leadership and senior roles where presence matters but the column still has to parse.
Slate
Navy accent on the name and headings; hairline dividers. Quiet, corporate, never flashy — a designed look that stays invisible to machines.
Focus
A short accent underline beneath each heading instead of a full rule. Directs the eye, changes nothing structural — headings remain real headings.
Mono
Monospaced name and headings for a technical feel; the body stays normal sans-serif so recruiters and parsers both get what they expect.
Creative
Bold
Name in a solid black block, heavy heading rules. Loud to human eyes, still a single plain column to everything downstream of the submit button.
Wine
Deep red name and double-rule headings. Personality for design-adjacent and consumer roles, with nothing under the hood that could scramble a parse.
Copper
Amber headings with wide tracking; warm and distinctive. Creative enough to stand out in a stack, boring enough to survive an applicant tracking system.
Compact
Compact
Tighter leading, smaller type, more per page. For experienced applicants with ten years and a lot to say who still need it to fit one page a recruiter will actually finish.
Jake’s
The one-page workhorse: smallest type, tightest spacing, maximum content per line. For applicants whose experience simply does not fit the airy layouts.
Graduate
Centered compact header for early-career applications where education leads. Same density benefits as Compact with a more formal open.
Neat
Enterprise-safe spacing with quieter rules. For large organizations where parsing accuracy matters more than personality.
Smart
Thin rules under each header so a linear career reads top to bottom. Built for managers reviewing a long track record.
Classic
Palatino headings on a plain single column. Reads like a printed document, parses like every other layout here.
Accent
A single warm accent on headers and a dot marker. Enough color to be memorable, not enough to cost you parsing points.
Bright
Navy name block with a gold rule. For media, design and communications roles where the layout is part of the pitch.
Export
Three formats out. None of them haunted.
Generated in your browser from the same data the scanner scored — text stays selectable, sections stay tagged. Free in every plan — generated in your browser, nothing metered.
DOCX
Real Word document for the employers whose portals only accept .docx and the recruiters who want to edit formatting themselves. Included on Pro and Lifetime.
LaTeX source
Download the .tex file, keep it in git, compile it yourself forever. Because a resume you can’t take with you isn’t really yours.
Questions
Template questions, answered straight.
Can I switch templates later?
Why is only Standard free?
Do you have a two-column template?
Can I import my current resume into a template?
Pick the layout. Keep the score.
Build in Standard free, or go Pro for all fifteen templates, DOCX and uncapped PDFs.