Resume Builder and Cover Letter Maker

The Resume Builder turns what you type into a professional one- or two-page resume (a CV) and a matching cover letter, and shows the page exactly as it will print. Start from scratch, press Fill with an example to see every template full, or import the resume you already have — a PDF, a Word (.docx) file, plain text or a JSON Resume file — and its name, contact details, jobs, education, skills and languages are put into the form for you to check. Then pick one of eight templates, each drawn small so you can choose by eye: Classic, Modern, Sidebar (two columns with an optional photo), Professional, Timeline, Executive, Minimal and Compact, in any of eight colours. The same details work in every template, so you can switch freely. The page tells you how many pages it will print on, and Fit to one page steps the text down until it fits. Switch to Cover letter and the same name and contact details head the letter in the same style.

1. Import your old resume (PDF, Word or text), press Fill with an example, or type your name, email, phone and city.
2. Check each job: title, employer, dates (“Jun 2021” or just “2021”) and what you did — a line each, starting with a verb and a number where you can.
3. Pick a template and a colour under the preview. Add a photo only if the job asks for one.
4. If it says it prints on two pages, press Fit to one page, or cut older jobs to a line or two.
5. Press Print or save as PDF and choose “Save as PDF” as the printer. Switch to Cover letter to write the letter that goes with it.

• Importing is a careful guess, not magic. Contact details are found by their shape and sections by their usual headings (Experience, Education, Skills…); jobs are split at their dates. Lines it cannot place are listed so you can copy them, and you should check every field before printing.
• A scanned PDF is a picture of text and cannot be imported; nor can old .doc files — save them as .docx or PDF first. Two-column PDFs may come in out of order.
• Sidebar, and any template with a photo, are harder for some applicant tracking systems (ATS) to read. For an online job portal, Classic, Professional, Minimal and Compact — one column of selectable text with standard headings — are the safest.
• The page count is measured at the printed width in this browser; another browser’s fonts can move a line or two. Check the print preview before saving.
• The checks above the preview only catch what is missing or cannot be right (an end date before its start, an email without a domain). Nothing scores your resume or rewrites it.
• Everything stays in this browser and is never uploaded — the file you import is read on your device (PDFs by the same reader as the PDF tools, Word files by unzipping them in the page), and a photo is cropped and shrunk here. A resume holds your phone number and address, and nobody else needs them. Nothing is kept after you close the page unless you press Save draft; drafts (with their template and photo) stay on this device and are in Export my data and removed by Delete everything.

For most jobs applied to online, Classic or Professional: one column, standard headings, read cleanly by applicant tracking systems. Modern and Timeline add colour while staying one column. Sidebar looks most designed and suits creative roles or handing over in person. Executive suits senior and formal roles; Compact fits a long career on one page.

Yes — press Import a resume and choose a PDF, a .docx, a .txt or a JSON Resume file. It is read in your browser, never uploaded. The form fills with what was recognised, and a note lists anything it could not place. Because every template uses the same fields, the imported resume fits all eight.

In India, the UK and the US most employers prefer no photo, and leaving it out avoids bias. Some roles and countries (parts of Europe and the Gulf, modelling, hospitality) expect one. If you add one it is cropped square; Sidebar shows it in the column, the others beside your name.

One page for a fresher or up to about five years of work; two pages beyond that. The page shows how many pages it prints on — use Fit to one page, the Compact template, or cut older jobs to a line or two rather than shrinking the text further.

Press Print or save as PDF, then choose “Save as PDF” (Chrome, Edge, Safari) or “Microsoft Print to PDF” as the printer. On a phone, use Share → Print and pinch out on the preview, or Save to Files. The text stays selectable, so applicant tracking systems can read it.

Three or four short paragraphs: the job you are applying for and where you saw it; two or three things you have done that match what they need, with numbers; why this company; and a line asking to talk. Most fit one page at 250–400 words; the box shows the word count.