Creative
Design a CV
A typeset PDF that reads well on paper and survives an ATS parser.
Fill it in
Whatever you have now.
Roles, dates, what you actually did.
What to slant it toward.
How much design.
Your prompt
Design a CV aimed at [your target role], Typographic. [your or paste your history] Two readers, and they want opposite things. A human skims for six seconds and wants hierarchy; an ATS parser wants plain text in a predictable order and chokes on columns, tables, text in images and clever headers. Typeset for the human inside a structure the parser can read: one column, real text, standard section names. Rewrite the bullets as outcomes with numbers. "Responsible for the billing system" says nothing; "cut failed payments 40% by retrying on soft declines" says everything. One page unless the history genuinely needs two. Deliver the PDF and the source.
Use Design a CVOpens with everything above already filled in.
Why this works
A CV has two readers who want opposite things: a human skimming for six seconds wants hierarchy, and an ATS parser chokes on columns, tables and text in images. This typesets for the human inside a structure the parser can actually read, and rewrites the bullets as outcomes with numbers.
Questions
- Will it get through an ATS?
- It uses one column, real text and standard section names, which is what parsers expect.
- Can I tailor it per role?
- Yes. Run it again with a different target role and the emphasis shifts.