Resume Builder
Create a professional resume in minutes. Fill in your details and download a clean, ATS-friendly PDF instantly. Free, no watermarks, no signup required.
Personal Info
Experience
Education
How to build a resume and save it as a PDF
Fill in four sections, preview, and print to PDF from your browser. It takes about fifteen minutes if your details are to hand.
- 01
Start with your name and contact line
Name is the only required field; the PDF button won't run without it. Email, phone, location and a website or LinkedIn URL sit on one line under your name, and any you leave blank are simply left out.
- 02
Add roles newest first
Each position has a role, company, start and end date, and a free-text description. Entries appear in the order you add them, so put your current job in the first slot. Line breaks you type in the description are kept in the PDF.
- 03
Add education and a comma-separated skills list
Skills are split at each comma and shown as small tags, so "SQL, Excel, Stakeholder reporting" becomes three tags.
- 04
Check the Preview tab, then print to PDF
Download PDF opens your resume in a new tab and starts the print dialog. Choose Save as PDF as the destination. If nothing happens, your browser blocked the pop-up; allow it for this site and click again.
What the printed resume looks like
There's one layout: a single column with your name at the top, a thin rule, then each section under an uppercase heading. Dates sit on the right of each entry. It's deliberately plain, which suits most corporate, government and graduate applications.
| Detail | What the tool uses | What it means for you |
|---|---|---|
| Page width | Up to 21 cm, the width of A4 | Prints cleanly on A4; on US Letter it has slightly wider side margins |
| Margins | 2 cm on screen, set by the print dialog when printing | Use the dialog's Default or Minimum margins |
| Font | Arial, 11 pt body, 22 pt name | Installed on almost every computer, so the PDF looks the same everywhere |
| Sections | Summary, Experience, Education, Skills | A section with nothing filled in is removed, not printed empty |
| Colour | Black and greys only | Photocopies and prints in black and white without losing anything |
Getting a clean PDF out of the print dialog
The PDF is made by your browser's print function, so a few print settings decide how it looks. In Chrome and Edge, open More settings and untick Headers and footers. Otherwise the date, a page title and a blank page address get printed in the corners. Tick Background graphics if you want the light grey boxes behind each skill; without it the skills still print, just as plain words.
Set the paper size to A4 or Letter to match where you're applying. Most of the world uses A4, while the US and Canada use Letter. Then look at the page count in the preview. If one or two lines spill onto a second page, trim the summary or the oldest role rather than shrinking the margins, since cramped margins read badly on paper.
Safari and Firefox put the same options in different places. In Safari, open Show Details in the print dialog. In Firefox, they're under More settings too.
Writing descriptions that hold up
The description box is plain text: there's no bold, no bullet button and no automatic list. To get a bulleted look, start each line with a hyphen or a • character and press Enter between achievements. The line breaks carry through to the PDF.
Lead each line with what changed because of you, and put a number on it where you can. "Cut monthly reporting from three days to one by moving it to Power BI" tells a recruiter more than "Responsible for reporting". Three to five lines for a recent role and one or two for older roles keeps most resumes to a page or two.
When a plain one-page builder is enough
A first resume with little work history
Put education first in your head, but it still prints after Experience. If you have no jobs yet, leave Experience blank so the section disappears and Education sits under your summary.
Tailoring one resume per application
Change the summary and reorder a few skills to match the job ad's wording, preview, and print a new PDF each time. Keep your master text somewhere safe, since the tool forgets it.
Turning a LinkedIn profile into a PDF
Copy each role's text from your profile into the matching fields. LinkedIn's own export is busier, and this gives you a simpler page to attach to an email.
A quick resume on a shared computer
Nothing is saved, so closing the tab clears your details. That's useful at a library or office machine, as long as you've downloaded the PDF first.
Things this builder doesn't do
- It doesn't save your work. Refreshing or closing the page clears every field, so keep your text in a document you can paste back from.
- There's no reordering. To move a role up, copy its text into an earlier slot, or remove entries and add them back in the order you want.
- There are no extra sections for certifications, projects, languages or references. Add certifications as Education entries, and put projects inside a role's description or the summary.
- There's no photo field, and only one template. For a design-heavy CV with columns or colour, a design tool will suit you better.
- Section order is fixed: Summary, Experience, Education, Skills.