Resume Template for Word, One Page, One Column, Editable Classic Layout

A one-page resume for someone with a few years of work behind them. It has room for three jobs, with the most space given to the newest.

The sections, top to bottom: your name and contact line, Summary, Experience, Skills and Education. The Experience section gives four lines to your latest job, three to the one before and one to the oldest.

The template has 39 prompts in square brackets. Each says what goes there, such as "A second result from this job. Name what got faster, cheaper or more accurate."

Everything is in one column, with no tables or text boxes. Dates sit on the same line as the employer, not in a column on the right. An early version had a right-hand date column, and pdftotext moved those dates below the bullets, so it was dropped.

The Sample Preview PDF shows the page filled in for a made-up operations coordinator.

WHAT'S INCLUDED
- Resume-One-Page-Template-Letter.docx and Resume-One-Page-Template-A4.docx, the files you type in
- Resume-One-Page-Sample-Preview-Letter.pdf and Resume-One-Page-Sample-Preview-A4.pdf, the filled-in page for a made-up person
- Start-Here-Samples-Fonts.zip: Start Here PDF, the filled sample as .docx in both sizes, the Carlito font files and their license

Each document is 1 page. Digital download. Nothing is shipped.

COMPATIBILITY
A .docx file with ordinary text, heading styles and one column. No tables, text boxes, macros or add-ins. Scripts opened it in LibreOffice 26.8 and read the text with docx2txt, macOS textutil and, after a PDF export, pdftotext. With its font swapped for Liberation Sans or Liberation Serif in LibreOffice, each document stayed on one page. A script also opened this file in Microsoft Word for Mac 16.114.3 and exported a PDF: it stayed on one page and the words came out in the same order as the file. Word used Calibri, Arial or Noto depending on the file and what it could fetch, and no fonts were installed for the test. That test did not type longer text. Google Docs and Pages have not been tried, no ATS was tested, and the menu steps below have not been tried in Word, Google Docs or Pages.

QUESTIONS AND HOW-TO
What if I have ten years of work? Keep the last three jobs here. Delete the oldest one if it has nothing to do with the job you want.

It ran onto a second page. What do I cut? Shorten the oldest job first, then cut the Skills lines to two.

Will it get through an applicant tracking system? No one can promise that, and this file has not been run through one. What was tested is the reading order as text: three text readers gave the words in the same order as the page.

Why does the sample still show [email address]? So the sample holds no real address. Everything else on it is made up.

Editing this file in Word or Google Docs

In Word: open the .docx file. If a yellow bar says Protected View, click Enable Editing. Select the text in [square brackets], brackets included, then type over it.

In Google Docs: open Google Drive, click New > File upload and pick the .docx file. Right-click it in Drive and choose Open with > Google Docs.

To get a file back out of Docs, use File > Download and choose Microsoft Word or PDF.

Line breaks can move between the two apps. Check the page count before you save a final copy.

If a font looks different, the app has swapped in another one. The layout still works.

A4 or US Letter

US Letter is 8.5 x 11 inches (216 x 279 mm). It is the usual paper in the United States and Canada.

A4 is 210 x 297 mm (8.3 x 11.7 inches). It is the usual paper in most other countries.

The paper size is in each file name. Print the one that matches the paper in your printer.

If you only have the other size, use Fit or Scale to Fit in the print window. The page will come out slightly smaller, with wider margins.

HOW AI WAS USED
AI helped write the listing text, the how-to text, the prompts, the made-up sample entries and the code that builds this file. Scripts tested: the file structure (one column, no tables or text boxes, real heading styles), the reading order as text through docx2txt, textutil and pdftotext, the page count in LibreOffice, the page count with the font swapped, and the metadata. No person is claimed to have checked it unless stated here.

PLEASE NOTE
This is a layout with writing prompts. It gives no career advice and cannot promise an interview or a job. The sample person, employers and numbers are made up. License: for your personal use only. No resale or sharing of this file.