standard set
Jake’s classic
Computer science students and early-career engineers.
Probably the most-used software engineering resume layout in existence. If you have seen a CS student's resume in the last five years, you have seen this: small-caps headings over full-width rules, and a running order of Education, Experience, Projects, Technical Skills.
Its real contribution is treating Projects as a first-class section rather than an afterthought. Each project gets a title, its stack listed in italics beside the name, a date range, and its own bullets — the same weight as a job. For anyone whose best work was unpaid that is the whole argument, and most templates make you choose between describing a project properly and describing a job properly.
Technical Skills closes the page as four labelled lines — languages, frameworks, developer tools, libraries — which reads faster than a comma-separated run of forty words. Being this familiar is itself worth something: nobody reading it has to work out where anything is, and no reviewer will find it unusual. Single column, real text, conventional headings, nothing decorative for a parser to trip on.
- Typography
- Latin Modern serif, small-caps ruled headings, pdflatex
- Length
- One page, single column
- Parsing
- Real text layer, standard section names, nothing in the headers or footers —
- Plans
- Every plan, including the free tier
- Licence