Entry Level
One column, Source Sans
Built for this stage, with your target job in blue under your name and room for projects and awards. Its header reads contact details first, so for online forms pick SWE or Garamond.
Use this template: Entry LevelEntry-level resume templates for your first job
For a first full-time job, show what you've done so far: internships, projects, part-time work and certifications. These six templates have a place for each, and most of the samples show a career at or near that stage.
SWE
One column, Lato
Company-first entries and project links. Its sample has one internship and one teaching role, and it still fills the page.
Use this template: SWE
Garamond
One column, Garamond
The sample runs from an internship through a junior job to a first analyst role, a good model after one or two jobs.
Use this template: Garamond
Tech Engineer
One column, Computer Modern
Has a section for projects and room for certifications. The sample's student project, a Formula SAE suspension, shows how to describe hands-on work.
Use this template: Tech Engineer
Campus
One column, Helvetica
One line per role, so a few short jobs stay tidy on the page.
Use this template: Campus
Generic
One column, Source Sans
A compact skills table at the foot, useful when your tools are the strongest thing you can offer.
Use this template: GenericSections to use when your work history is short
| If you have | Use this section | It could read |
|---|---|---|
| A class or personal project | Projects | Built a budgeting app in React with 200 monthly users |
| A retail or service job | Experience | Handled about 80 customer requests a shift and trained two new hires |
| Volunteer work | Volunteer | Organized a food drive that collected 1,200 pounds in one weekend |
| A course or certificate | Certifications | Google Ads Search Certification, 2026 |
| A scholarship or prize | Awards | Dean's List, six semesters |
Writing a summary without a job title to lean on
Say what you just finished, your best evidence, and the job you want. For example: Recent marketing graduate with two internships running paid campaigns, comfortable in GA4 and HubSpot, looking for a coordinator role. Our resume summary examples show more, and the skills section guide helps with what comes after it.
How this differs from a student resume
On a student resume, education always leads. Once you've left school, it stays on top only until your work is stronger than your degree. After a year or two in a relevant job, move Experience above it and drop details such as your GPA and coursework.
Common questions
- What if I have no work experience at all?
- Lead with education, then projects, volunteer work and activities. All of them can use the same format as a job: what you did, and what came of it.
- Is the Entry Level template ATS-friendly?
- It failed our check, because its three-part header reads your contact details back before your name. SWE, JV and Garamond suit the same stage and passed, so use one of those for online forms.
Template credits
Each design is modeled on a CV template shared on Overleaf and rebuilt in HTML. The sample text is our own.
- Entry Level: based on Entry-level Resume Template by Jayesh Sanwal (CC BY 4.0)
- SWE: based on SWE Resume Template by Audric Serador (CC BY 4.0)
- Garamond: based on cv_template by Ethan Hu (LPPL 1.3c)
- Tech Engineer: based on Tech Engineer Resume Template by Gennadii Chursov (MIT)
- Campus: based on ASU Resume Template by Vignesh V Iyer (CC BY 4.0)
- Generic: based on Generic Resume Template by Narendhiran Saravanane (CC BY 4.0)