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Academia resume template
A scholarly serif CV with room for publications. Built for academia.
Who the Academia design suits
Academia suits PhD candidates, postdocs, lecturers, researchers and scientists applying for faculty, fellowship or research posts, as well as graduate school applicants. It has room for publications, talks, grants and teaching, which a short résumé usually lacks. For an industry job the same design works as a two-page résumé, though a brisker layout may serve better.
How the page is laid out
Academia centres a bold Source Serif name, the title and a row of contact details divided by small dots, with no icons. Section headings are small capitals in slate grey with a thin grey rule running to the right margin. The whole page, headings included, is set in Source Serif 4 at a comfortable size and line spacing. Colour stays in slate and grey, and skills are inline lists with bold labels.
How it reads to an ATS
Academia reads as one column with conventional headings, which university portals and research job systems handle cleanly. List each publication as its own entry with authors, title, venue and year, so it reads as a separate item. A CV may run to several pages; put the sections that matter most for the post first, since many readers judge from the first page.
Best for: Single column · Classic · Elegant. Free to use, exports selectable text a résumé parser can read, and edits entirely in your browser — no account and no upload.
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Everything on this design can be changed
The picture is a starting point, not a fixed layout. Open the design and change any of this in the editor, with your own words on the page as you do; nothing needs retyping.
- Colours: the accent, heading, text, background and sidebar colours
- Fonts: heading, body and name typefaces, sizes, line height and letter spacing
- Header: photo or monogram on or off, the contact line’s style and whether it sits under, beside or above the name, or in the sidebar
- Section headings: rule, band, side heading and more, for every section at once or one at a time, with an optional icon
- Dates: at the right edge, before the entry, beside the title or in the company line
- Language levels, skill badges and link style
- One or two columns, the sidebar width, section order and which sections appear
- Spacing, margins and page size (A4 or US Letter), and Magic fit to keep it to one, two or three pages
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