Jake resume template
Best for any role — universal ats layout. Change the colour and typeface below — what you see is what the editor opens with, and the PDF keeps every word as selectable text.
What a parser sees
Measured on this template's own rendered output, not claimed. All five checks pass.
One column, so the text comes out top to bottom in the order you wrote it.
Nothing is laid out in a table, so no cell ends up read out of sequence.
Every word is real text rather than part of a picture, including your contact details — so it can be copied out and searched.
Sections are named the way parsers expect (Summary, Experience, Projects…), so they land in the right fields.
No text is pinned to a fixed spot on the page, which is the other common way reading order gets scrambled.
Writing the content is the harder half. The Best ATS Resume Template guide goes section by section for this field.
What Jake's Resume is, and where it came from
The original is “Jake's Resume” by Jake Gutierrez — a LaTeX template published at github.com/jakegut/resume under the MIT licence, itself based on sb2nov/resume. The layout on this page is a web port of it. The name belongs to the original, not to us.
It spread the way useful things do: a computer science student wrote a plain LaTeX résumé for himself, put the source on GitHub and a copy on Overleaf, and it became the default answer in engineering-résumé communities. No company published it and nobody marketed it. It is single column, uses section headings a parser recognises, and wastes no space, which is most of why it works.
One thing worth knowing before you go looking for it: the author archived the repository in August 2024, so it is read-only now, and his own Overleaf listing is labelled “Not updated”. That is not a criticism of the template — a résumé layout does not rot — but it does mean nobody is fixing the LaTeX if you hit a problem with it, and it is the honest reason a maintained version exists here.
If you already work in LaTeX, use the original. It is free, it is MIT-licensed, and Overleaf will compile it in a browser tab. This port is for people who want the same layout without installing a TeX distribution or learning why their bullet spacing changed.
Where do I get the original Jake's Resume on Overleaf?
Search Overleaf for “Jake's Resume”, or start from the source at github.com/jakegut/resume and upload resume.tex as a new Overleaf project. The repository is archived and read-only, so what you find is the final version rather than something still being developed. Overleaf compiles it without you installing anything locally.
Is there a Jake's Resume template for Word or Google Docs?
Not an official one, and the honest reason is that LaTeX does not convert cleanly to .docx. The spacing, the small-caps heading rule and the tight bullet geometry are all things LaTeX does and Word approximates, so converters produce something that looks close and behaves differently the first time you edit it. What you can do here is fill in this layout in the browser and export a PDF with selectable text, which is the format almost every application actually wants. If you specifically need an editable .docx, our Word templates are separate designs rather than a converted Jake.
What ATS score does Jake's Resume get?
Layout is not the whole score, so no template can promise a number. What this one removes is the layout risk: one column, no tables, standard headings, real selectable text — the four things that make a parser mis-read a document. The rest of the score comes from what you write, which is why the checker grades your content separately. A well-parsed résumé with vague bullets still scores badly.
How do I list multiple positions at the same company?
In the LaTeX original you nest a second subheading under the employer, which is the edit most people end up making by hand. This version does not group them: entries are a flat list, so two roles at one employer render as two blocks with the company name on each. That reads fine and is what most résumé advice recommends anyway — a promotion is easier to see when both titles carry their own dates — but if you specifically want the nested look, the LaTeX original still does it and this does not.
Shown with a worked example: Marcus Reed, Data Analyst. Your own content replaces it in the builder.
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