Free ATS-Friendly Resume Templates
Four hand-built layouts that pass through applicant tracking systems cleanly. Pick one, fill in your details for free, or restyle an existing PDF in seconds.
Classic
Best for: Engineering, consulting, finance, traditional industries
A no-nonsense layout with a professional blue accent. Single column, clean headings, predictable section order — everything ATS parsers expect. Works equally well for senior engineers, project managers, and recent grads who want a safe, well-respected look.
Use Classic templateModern
Best for: Product, design, marketing, startups
Clean sans-serif, generous spacing, skill chips for fast scanning. Still single-column and ATS-safe — the modern feel comes from typography and pacing, not gimmicks. Great for product managers, designers, marketers, and anyone working in startup or tech-adjacent roles.
Use Modern templateMinimal
Best for: Senior IC roles, writers, anyone who wants the work to speak
Black on white with lots of whitespace. Strips away decoration so your accomplishments do the work. A favourite for senior individual contributors, writers, researchers, and anyone applying to places that value substance over flash.
Use Minimal templateExecutive
Best for: Director, VP, C-suite roles
Serif headings, restrained typography, and a layout that signals seniority without ostentation. Works for director-level and above where the format itself communicates experience. Conservative but never dated.
Use Executive templateWhat does “ATS-friendly” actually mean?
Applicant tracking systems read your CV before a human does. They parse PDFs into structured fields: name, contact, work history, education, skills. Templates that look beautiful but use multi-column layouts, embedded images, or unusual fonts can lose information along the way — text gets dropped, dates get mangled, sections get merged.
All four AdaptMyCV templates avoid those pitfalls: single-column body (or a clearly delimited sidebar), system-safe fonts, real text (not images of text), and a consistent section order. The differences are in typography, spacing, and tone — not in machine-readability.
You can also tailor your CV to a specific job description for 10 coins (≈ $2). The Adapt flow reads the JD, surfaces the keywords the ATS will score against, and rewrites your existing content to land them — with an honesty check so nothing is fabricated.