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Elegant
ProfessionalA centred header in dark slate blue, an italic summary and section headings marked by a short vertical bar. Skills sit in outlined boxes, two to a row.
Professional resume template
Academic resume template
Laid out for research applications, with a Palatino-style serif, small-capital headings and your summary presented as Research Interests. Projects read like short abstracts.
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What Academic does well
- Summary presented under the heading Research Interests
- Projects shown as a title, a short justified abstract and a keywords line
- Name and section headings in small capitals over hairline rules
- Room for a minor and a grade under each degree
- Black and grey only, with wide side margins
Template details
- Format
- ATS-friendly structure
- Yes
- Photo
- No
- Content
- Written for the posting you paste in
Upload your CV and paste a job posting. The Studio writes the content for that role, scores it against the posting, and lays it out in Academic.
How Academic is laid out
Academic uses a Palatino-style serif in one column, with wider side margins than most of the A4 templates here. The centred name is set in small capitals over a line of contact details, followed by your summary under the heading Research Interests and a hairline rule; work experience, education, skills, projects and awards come next, with institutions in italics and project descriptions justified like short abstracts.
Who it suits
- Master's and PhD applications that ask for a short CV
- Research assistant, lab and other early-career research posts
- Researchers moving into industry who want to keep a scholarly look
- Teaching applicants who want a formal serif page, with teaching posts listed as experience
Good to know
- There are no dedicated publications, teaching or grants sections, so it suits a short research CV rather than a full academic one. Teaching posts go under work experience, and grants or fellowships under awards.
- The summary is always headed Research Interests, which reads oddly outside research; Classic and Professional give a similar formal serif look without it.
- Small capitals do not always survive text extraction cleanly, so an applicant tracking system may misread the headings. For online portals, Classic is the safer serif.
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ProfessionalSerif type, a centred name and a boxed professional profile, with firm black rules under each heading. There is no colour anywhere, and dates sit in italics on the right.
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