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Build a resume from a finished template and download both the PDF and the LaTeX source. The output is typeset properly — real spacing, real hierarchy, no template artefacts — with selectable text rather than images, which is what applicant tracking systems need in order to read it at all. The source matters as much as the PDF: a resume you can edit in a text file is one you can update in a minute for every role you apply to, instead of dragging boxes around.
Build a resume from a finished LaTeX template and download a PDF or the LaTeX source. The PDF has selectable, ATS-readable text, nothing is uploaded, and there is no sign-up or watermark.
A parser reads text in the order it appears in the file. Columns, tables and frames can reorder that sequence, so a two-column resume may arrive at a recruiter as your name, then your university, then your first job. One column makes the order the order you intended, and it costs you nothing in a design sense.
A .tex file is a document you can maintain for years. Change a date, add a bullet, reorder a section, rebuild. The alternative is a layout file that fights you every time the content changes length, and a resume that is out of date is worse than no resume.
A recruiter's folder contains a hundred files. firstname-lastname-role.pdf can be matched to an application in a second; resume-final.pdf cannot be matched to anything. The rename takes five seconds and it is the difference between a document and a lost document.
If your experience is genuinely unconventional — a portfolio career, a gap, a career change, publications in an unusual field — a template that assumes linear employment can misrepresent it. In that case, write the content first and choose a layout that fits what you have, rather than compressing a real story into a conventional shape.
Yes — the text is real text, in a single logical column in a one-column template, which is exactly what a parser needs. The risk is layout, not format: a two-column template and text in tables or frames can scramble the reading order for a parser. One column is the safe choice unless the two-column layout is doing real work for you.
Because the PDF is the end product and the source is the editable document. In a text file, changing a date or adding a bullet is a two-second edit. In a layout tool, it is dragging a box and watching the layout break. A resume you can edit in a text file is one you will actually keep up to date.
No. Fill in the form and the template is generated for you, and you download a working .tex file. If you do know it, the file is a real, readable template you can adjust — which is the point of downloading the source.
Yes, which is a genuine advantage. The font is embedded in the PDF, so the typography does not depend on what is installed on the reader's machine. A resume built with system fonts in a layout tool looks subtly different on every different machine; this looks identical everywhere.
One column unless you have a reason. Two-column suits a technical or academic profile with a lot of publications, and it reads well to a human. It is harder for a parser, so if you are applying through an ATS, one column is the lower-risk choice.
Your name and the role — firstname-lastname-role.pdf. A file called resume.pdf or, worse, document-final-v3.pdf is hard to match to an application in a folder of forty, and the recruiter is the one who has to do the matching.
Yes, and you should use a letter template rather than a resume template. One page, addressed, three or four paragraphs, signed. Build it here or with Create PDF, and the source lets you adapt it per application in a minute.
Yes. Free, no account, no watermark, and nothing is uploaded — you can build and download a resume on a machine with no network access, which is the normal state of a university library computer.
More optional — all free, no upload.