Elegant Serif resume template
A free serif resume template with a refined, considered feel for academic and senior applications. Single column, standard headings, text-based PDF export.
A scaled preview of the layout. Your own content replaces the placeholder lines.
Who it suits
Academic, research, editorial, non-profit and senior applications where a considered register fits the field.
What it looks like
Source Serif for the whole document, headings in uppercase at a smaller size with a hairline rule, and a lighter bullet marker.
When to pick something else
Fast-moving product and engineering teams tend to read serif resumes as formal. Technical Minimal or Modern Corporate fits better there.
Use the Elegant Serif 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.