Build it, then check what came out of the file
A single-column resume with real headings and nothing that breaks extraction. Every export is read back and compared with what went in, so you find out before you send it.
Build it, then check what came out of the file
A single-column resume with real headings and nothing that breaks extraction. Every export is read back and compared with what went in, so you find out before you send it rather than after.
What it will look like
What the exported file contains, and what it cannot
One column. No header, no footer, no text box, no table, no graphic behind text. Those are the constructs that cause most extraction failures, and this builder has no way to emit them — the document model does not have a word for them.
Headings are real Word heading styles, so the file has an outline a reader and a parser can both follow. Bullets are literal bullet characters rather than a numbering reference, because a numbering reference can come out of extraction as nothing at all.
Every Word export is verified. After the file is written it is unzipped, the text is read back the way a parser reads it, and each block is checked for presence and order. If anything is missing you are told not to send it. A tool that says "exported successfully" without opening the file is telling you nothing.
The PDF is drawn with pdf-lib, loaded from a public code CDN the first time you export one. Your content is not part of that request. PDF text is limited to the WinAnsi character set by the standard fonts; characters outside it are mapped where there is an obvious equivalent and you are told when one is not.
Your draft is saved in this browser's local storage and nowhere else. It is not uploaded, not synced and not recoverable by us. Clearing site data deletes it — use "Save a copy of your data" for anything you care about.
The file is what gets read, not the design
A resume that looks correct in Word can arrive at an employer with its columns interleaved or its contact block missing, and nothing in the editing experience warns you. The only way to know is to read the file back — which is what the export check here does.
Why there is no two-column template
Because a second column is the single most reliable way to scramble a resume. A PDF stores glyphs at coordinates, and on a two-column page the columns share vertical positions; read naively you get alternate clauses from two histories spliced into sentences that parse and mean nothing.
Plenty of tools will sell you the two-column template. This one will not, and the reason is the paragraph above rather than taste.
The score is about the document, not about you
Readiness measures what is checkable: whether text is recoverable, whether sections are detectable, whether dates are consistent, whether bullets carry evidence. It says nothing about whether you are a good candidate, and it does not predict any employer's system.
Nothing is written for you
The builder will tell you a bullet describes the job rather than the work, or carries no figure. It will not supply the figure. A resume you cannot defend in a room is worse than a thin one.