Resume Template Word, Google Docs | Job Search System: ATS Resume, Cover Letter, Job Application Tracker, Interview Prep, Pay Calculator

Job Search System is a resume and job tracker kit for job seekers, from application to offer. Editable Word, Google Docs, Excel, Google Sheets and fillable PDF, on computer or phone. Instant download.

Thirty applications in, the spreadsheet says "applied" and nothing else, and the offer letters talk in salaries when the rent is paid from paychecks. This system keeps the whole search in one tracker and turns every offer into what lands in the bank. In the invented sample search, three offers sit side by side: Offer B is worth the most on paper, $9,820 a year more than Offer A, and pays the least per paycheck, an estimated $2,411 against Offer A's $2,482. Raise Offer A's base salary from 95,000 to 102,000 and its take-home reads $2,650 and its total comp $128,880.

Type over the sample resumes in Word, Google Docs or Pages, log each application in the tracker, and fill in the interview kit before every round. No Canva needed.

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📦 WHAT'S INCLUDED (17 FILES)
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01. Six ATS resumes (6 Word files)
Classic, Modern and Two-Column Look, each as a one-page and a two-page file. All six are one column underneath: real Word headings, plain paragraphs and bullet lists, dates on a tab stop, and no tables or text boxes, so applicant tracking systems read them in order.

02. Cover letter, reference sheet and follow-up emails (3 Word files)
A cover letter, a reference sheet with room for four references, and four follow-up email templates.

03. Job Application Tracker workbook (3 files)
Eight tabs for Excel or Google Sheets: Start Here, Setup, Pipeline, Interviews, Offers, Pay Calculator, Dashboard and Help, with 2,928 formulas. The Colorful edition, the Editorial edition, and a 3color zip holding Colorful, Light and Dark.

04. Interview Prep Kit (2 fillable PDFs)
Five STAR story cards, 60 questions by round (15 phone screen, 15 hiring manager, 15 panel, 15 final) each with an answer box, 10 questions to ask them, the follow-up email and an interview day checklist. 129 fields, 14 pages on US Letter and 13 on A4.

05. Quick-Start guide, START-HERE and ACCESS-YOUR-TEMPLATE (3 files)
The two-page QUICK-START PDF with the first four steps, a plain-text START-HERE that names every file, and ACCESS-YOUR-TEMPLATE.pdf with the Google Sheets copy of the tracker and Google Docs copies of the nine Word files: open it and click Make a copy.

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👤 WHO THIS IS FOR
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A job seeker sending applications every week who wants one place for every company, stage, contact and follow-up date, and a count of what is working.

Someone with an interview on the calendar who wants their five best stories written down and the likely questions answered before the call, round by round.

Someone holding two or three offers who wants to compare them on total comp and on the paycheck, not on the headline salary alone.

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🚫 WHO THIS IS NOT FOR
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Anyone who wants a resume written for them, or a graphic resume with photos and columns built in Canva. These are editable templates with sample text to type over.

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✅ KEY BENEFITS
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Six resumes in three layouts, one-page and two-page, and three letter files: nine Word files, each read back by a text extraction check in the order it was written, with zero tables and zero text boxes.
A Pipeline for 300 applications where one STAGE dropdown drives every count: applications, this week, response rate, interviewing, offers, days searching and the follow-ups due.
Up to four offers side by side: total comp for year one (base, bonus, signing bonus, equity, retirement match and benefits), PTO value, hourly equivalent and estimated take-home per paycheck.
A Pay Calculator with the 2026 federal brackets and standard deductions, a planning rate for every state and DC, Social Security and Medicare, and four pay frequencies.
An Interview Prep Kit with 60 questions across four rounds and 129 fillable fields. Excel 2016 or later and Google Sheets, four color editions, no macros, nothing to install.

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🔧 HOW IT WORKS
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1. Pick a resume layout and type over the sample. On the tracker's Setup tab, type your name, target role and the day your search started, then type your applications over the 40 sample rows on Pipeline.

2. Watch the numbers work. The invented sample, Priya Castellanos, has sent 36 applications in 53 days as of Sep 18, 2026: 17 replies (47.2%), 10 at an interview stage and 3 offers. On Offers, Offer A's base salary of 95,000 reads TAKE-HOME PER PAYCHECK $2,482 (single, Colorado, paid every two weeks) and TOTAL COMP $120,900. Change it to 102,000 and they read $2,650 and $128,880, and Offer B's lead falls from $9,820 to $1,840 a year. Move Fernwood Robotics from Applied to Interview on Pipeline and INTERVIEWING goes from 10 to 11.

3. Before each round, work through that round's questions in the Interview Prep Kit, log the interview on the Interviews tab, and send the follow-up email within 24 hours.

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❓ QUESTIONS BUYERS ASK
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What format is this? Nine Word (.docx) files (six resumes, a cover letter, a reference sheet and the follow-up emails), one workbook (.xlsx) in four color editions, and the Interview Prep Kit as a fillable PDF on US Letter and A4, with a quick-start PDF, a START-HERE file and the Google copies PDF. 17 files in one zip, ready to download the moment payment clears.

What do I need to open it? Do I need Canva? No Canva. The resumes and letters open in Word 2016 or later, Google Docs or Pages; the tracker in Excel 2016 or later or Google Sheets; the kit in Adobe Acrobat Reader (free), Preview or most browsers. For the Google versions, open ACCESS-YOUR-TEMPLATE.pdf and click Make a copy. On a phone, use the Google Docs and Google Sheets apps with your copies.

What does the tracker work out? The count at every stage, applications this week, response rate, days searching, follow-ups due with the most overdue first, interview rounds ahead with prep status and thank-you notes to send, applications by week and replies by source, total comp and take-home per paycheck for every offer, and the best offer on paper.

Is the take-home figure exact? No. It is a planning estimate: the 2026 federal brackets from the IRS, one planning rate for your state, Social Security and Medicare. It leaves out credits, itemizing, local taxes and the way bonuses and stock are withheld. Verify it against a real pay stub and your state. This is not tax advice.

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⚠️ PLEASE READ
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The pay and tax figures are estimates to verify. The brackets and the Social Security wage base are pre-filled for tax year 2026, and the state table carries one planning rate per state, rounded for a graduated state. Type the rate from your own pay stub, and update the amber cells each January. Offers taxes base salary only.

Applicant tracking systems differ. The resumes follow the common parser-safe rules (one column, real headings, plain text order); keep them that way when you edit, and save as .docx or PDF as the posting asks. Pages may paginate a line differently from Word and Google Docs.

The kit's answer boxes wrap as you type in Acrobat Reader and Preview. A browser preview may show a box as one line; if a box will not take typing there, use Acrobat Reader.

Every name, employer and figure in the samples is invented, including Priya Castellanos and her three offers. The four color editions are separate files: pick one and keep your search in it.

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📥 INSTANT DOWNLOAD
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Your files are ready to download the moment your payment clears. Nothing is shipped.

Start with the two-page Quick-Start guide. It has the first four steps, what every file is for, and the honest warnings.

🎬 WATCH THE FULL WALKTHROUGH before you buy, 7 minutes, every file of the real product:
https://youtu.be/2rCcevdoVZg

Also in the shop: the Layoff Budget Spreadsheet, a job loss financial plan and runway calculator for the weeks before the search, and the Nurse Resume Template and Job Search Kit, this system's nursing edition.

Questions? Send a message. I read and answer them myself.