Google Docs-style resume templates

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What Docs does well, and where it stops

For a single column of text with clear headings, Docs is perfectly adequate, and the five built-in templates are used successfully by a very large number of people. Where it stops is everything structural. Two columns means a table, and a table in Docs fights you every time you edit a cell. Consistent spacing between sections means remembering to apply the same paragraph style each time. Changing the typeface across a finished document means selecting all and hoping nothing else moves.

The other limit is range: five templates is five, and enough people use them that a recruiter has seen all five this week. Nothing about that costs you an interview, but it is worth knowing what your page looks like in the pile.

If you are moving off Docs

The content transfers by rewriting rather than importing, which sounds worse than it is — a resume is a few hundred words, and retyping it is the fastest edit most people ever give it. What you get back is a layout that does not drift: section spacing, heading treatment and margins are settings rather than habits, and the exported PDF is identical every time.

If you need to hand someone an editable file at the end, keep the Docs copy for that. Export here is PDF, which is the file to send in almost every other case.

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