ATS-friendly resumes

Beat the resume robots.Get seen by humans.

Most resumes are rejected by an applicant tracking system before a recruiter ever opens them. Grab a free ATS-friendly template below — or build your own and watch your ATS score climb in real time.

No sign-up needed for the templates · Live ATS score is free

Most

resumes are filtered by software before a human reads them

Seconds

is all a recruiter spends on the first pass of your resume

Layout

is why good candidates get rejected — not their experience

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Free ATS-friendly resume templates

Three clean, single-column layouts that applicant tracking systems can read from top to bottom. Download the PDF, replace the sample text, and apply.

Classic ATS-friendly resume template preview
Free

Classic

Centered header with ruled section dividers. The safest, most familiar layout a recruiter can read at a glance.

Finance, accounting, law & corporate roles

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Modern ATS-friendly resume template preview
Free

Modern

Left-aligned name with the job title on the right, and generous space for bullet-point achievements.

Tech, marketing, operations & startups

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Structured ATS-friendly resume template preview
Free

Structured

Banded section headers that guide the eye down the page while keeping the text in one clean column.

Admin, healthcare, education & career changers

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Resume builder

Or build your own — and score it as you type

The templates above are a great start. The builder makes the resume yours — with a live preview and an ATS score that tells you exactly what to fix.

The Yooda AI resume builder: editor on the left, live ATS score and resume preview on the right
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Fill in your details

Add your experience, education and skills. Write each achievement on its own line — they become clean, scannable bullets.

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Watch your ATS score

Your score updates as you type. Every unticked item tells you exactly what recruiters and parsers are still missing.

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Download a parsable PDF

Export a single-column PDF with real, selectable text — the format applicant tracking systems read without choking.

Live ATS score

Stop guessing whether your resume is good enough

Every resume gets a score out of 100 against the checks recruiters and applicant tracking systems actually run — and each miss comes with a plain instruction on how to fix it. No jargon, no mystery.

  • Complete contact details & a target job title
  • Achievements as bullets, with quantified results
  • Dated work experience the parser can read
  • At least five real, job-relevant keywords
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Live ATS score panel showing a percentage score and a checklist of what to fix

What makes a resume ATS-friendly

These six rules decide whether software can read you at all. Every template and every PDF we generate follows all of them.

One column, no tables

Multi-column and table layouts scramble when an ATS reads them top-to-bottom. Every template here is a single column.

Real text, never images

If your name is part of a graphic, the parser sees nothing. Our PDFs are selectable text an ATS can extract cleanly.

Standard section headings

"Work Experience", not "My Journey". Parsers look for the headings they know — creative titles get skipped.

Fonts the parser knows

Standard, embedded fonts keep every character intact. Decorative fonts can turn your resume into gibberish.

Keywords from the job posting

Most systems rank you on keyword overlap. Use the exact skill names the posting uses — if you genuinely have them.

Dates on every role

Missing or fuzzy dates create gaps a screener can't resolve, and many systems drop the entry entirely.

ATS resume questions, answered

Your next interview starts with a resume that gets read

Build an ATS-friendly resume, score it, and then let Yooda AI help you through the interview itself.