Resume Examples

Resume Examples for Every Role

Real, complete resume samples written for specific job titles across industries. Find the example that matches your role, then make it your own — fully editable and ATS-friendly.

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What does a good resume example actually show you?

Three things advice about resumes rarely manages to. The first is proportion: how much room a summary gets against an experience block, how many bullets a recent role earns compared with one from six years ago, where a skills list belongs on a page that is already full. The second is what a quantified bullet reads like when it has not been padded, which is usually shorter and duller than people expect.

The third is what your own field takes for granted. A nursing resume puts licensure and clinical settings near the top because that is the first thing anyone hiring checks. An engineering resume puts the stack there for the same reason. Nobody writes those conventions down, but you can see them in ten seconds by reading two examples from your industry side by side.

Browse resume examples by role

Every example below is a complete resume, filled in and ready to open. Search by job title or style, then take the one whose shape fits what you have to say.

11 ATS-friendly resume examples

Single-column · Modern

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Single-column · Professional

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Single-column · Classic

Single-column · Creative

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Two-column · Modern

Two-column · Elegant

Single-column · Professional

Two-column · Modern

How do you turn an example into your own resume?

Read for structure first and wording second. Pick the example closest to your title and stage, then write down what its sections are and in what order, and rebuild that skeleton with your own material before touching a single sentence. Working the other way round, editing the sample text line by line, is how people end up with a resume that describes somebody else's career in their name.

Once your own content is in, tailor it. Paste the posting you are applying to and fix the vocabulary gap between what it asks for and what your draft says. If you want a blank version of the same design instead, every example here has a resume template behind it. For the letter that goes with it, see the cover letter examples and cover letter templates.

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An example shows you a finished resume. A template gives you the empty structure of one. Use the examples when you do not yet know what a strong resume for your role looks like: what belongs in the summary, how many bullets an entry deserves, what a quantified achievement reads like when it has not been padded. Use the templates when you already know what you want to say and need somewhere to put it. Most people want both, in that order. Read two or three examples for the role you are targeting, notice what they lead with and where the numbers sit, then open the matching template and write your own. The two galleries share one design system, so an example you liked has a template behind it that exports in PDF, Word (DOCX) or plain text.

Copy the structure, never the sentences. Someone reading fifty resumes for one posting spots a borrowed bullet quickly, and a claim you cannot speak to in an interview costs you far more than a plain line would have. What is safe to take is the shape: which section comes first, how long the summary runs, how many bullets sit under a recent role against an old one, where numbers appear and what they measure. Then write your own version of each. If a bullet in an example reads that someone cut deployment time from forty minutes to six, the transferable part is not the numbers, it is that the bullet names a before, an after and the thing the person changed. Your own work almost always contains that shape once you go looking for it.

Yes, and they are built on the same base designs as the template gallery, so what you see is close to what a parser sees. Each one keeps its content as real text rather than an image, uses section titles an applicant tracking system already recognises, and holds one consistent date format so a parser can build your timeline out of it. Nothing load-bearing sits in a page header, a footer or a text box that a stripping upload would drop. That is the part of being ATS-friendly you can control from a document. The part you cannot control from a document is relevance: no layout will carry you past a screen looking for a certification you do not hold. Use the example for structure, then tailor the wording against the specific posting before you send it.

Start with the closest title in your own industry, then adjust for career stage. The catalogue behind these examples covers 172 job titles across 22 industries, so most people find their own or something one step away from it. If your exact title is missing, the nearest role in the same industry transfers better than the same title in a different one. A data analyst in healthcare and a data analyst in finance share more structure than a healthcare analyst and a healthcare nurse do. Career stage matters as much as the title itself. A senior resume gives scope, ownership and outcomes the room a student resume spends on coursework, projects and internships. Pick the example whose stage matches where you actually are, not where you would like a posting to place you: a resume that overreaches on scope tends to collapse in the first interview question about it.

Yes. Choosing an example opens it in the builder with the layout intact, and every line in it is yours to replace. The sample content exists to show you the shape, so the first pass is mechanical: swap the header for your own details, then rewrite each bullet against work you have actually done. After that comes the edit that matters. Paste the job description you are applying to and you get the terms that posting leans on, what your draft says instead, and the specific changes that close the distance. Save the result as its own version so one application never overwrites another. Export in PDF for a human reader, Word (DOCX) for the portals that demand it, or plain text for a form that strips everything else. All three come out of the same document, so there is no version to keep in sync.

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