Fancy CV designs get rejected by the software that reads them first: 75% of CVs are filtered by an ATS before a human looks. These five templates are deliberately parser-safe — single column, standard fonts, real headings, zero decoration that scrambles your details. Download, fill in, done.
The safe-everywhere choice. Personal statement, key skills, experience with achievement bullets. Right for most office, healthcare, trade and service roles.
⬇ Download (Word)Clean, tight, two-line profile and hard-skills row up top. Right for tech, marketing, design-adjacent and startup roles where brevity wins.
⬇ Download (Word)Education and projects first, work experience reframed for transferable skills. Right for students, graduates and anyone with under 2 years' experience.
⬇ Download (Word)Leads with transferable skills and retraining instead of job history, so the filter and the recruiter both see the role you're moving into — not just where you've been.
⬇ Download (Word)Executive summary, selected achievements, then compressed career history. Right for director-level roles where scale and outcomes matter more than task lists.
⬇ Download (Word)Single column, standard fonts, real text headings, no tables, no text boxes, no photos or icons. ATS software parses your CV as plain text — decoration is what breaks parsing and gets good candidates rejected.
Really free, no email needed. We make these because people who fix their CV template often also want to check it against a real job — and our scanner's first scan is free too.
Follow the advert. If unspecified: DOCX is safest for older systems, PDF is fine for modern ones. Never send a scanned/image PDF.
A good template gets you parsed. The right keywords get you shortlisted. Scan your finished CV against any job advert — free, 30 seconds.
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