Classic Executive resume template
A free serif resume template with a centred name block and understated section rules, for senior, legal, finance and academic applications. Exports real text.
A scaled preview of the layout. Your own content replaces the placeholder lines.
Who it suits
Senior and executive applications, law, finance, academia, and organisations whose own documents lean formal.
What it looks like
A centred name and headline, section headings centred with a rule above rather than below, and an en-dash bullet marker instead of a square.
When to pick something else
Early-career resumes can look thin inside a formal frame. Modern Corporate or Minimal Compact carries a shorter history better.
Use the Classic Executive templateOpens the free builder with this layout selected. You can switch template at any point without retyping anything.
What makes this template ATS-safe
Every template on ATSVerse shares one structure, and only the styling changes. That structure is what applicant tracking software has to read:
- One column, top to bottom. No tables, no text boxes, no side panel that a parser could read across a line.
- Standard section headings. Experience, Education and Skills are labelled with the words parsers are trained on, not with creative alternatives.
- Contact details in the body. Never in a page header or footer, which many parsers skip.
- A real text PDF. The export is selectable text, not a flattened image, so the words can actually be extracted.
- A4 or US Letter. Switch page size without changing anything else.
ATSVerse is not affiliated with any employer or ATS vendor, and no template can promise how a particular employer's system will behave. What these rules remove is the common, avoidable ways a resume loses information on the way in.